Scythian

How To Use Scythian In A Sentence

• Takshac, the Huna and the Chaura, were considered by Colonel Tod to be the representatives of the Huns or Scythians, that is, the nomad invading tribes from Central Asia, whose principal incursions took place during the first five centuries of the Christian era. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
• Here you can see masterpieces of Greek toreutics - a chased gilded silver amphora from Chertomlyk, the shoulders of which are decorated with a relief frieze of Scythians taming wild horses.
• The Scythians and the Hyperboreans (sometimes the Aethiopians) were the noble savages of the Ancients.
• Scythian king Ateas more musical than this comes to, who, when he heard that admirable flutist Ismenias, detained then by him as a prisoner of war, playing upon the flute at a compotation, swore he had rather hear his own horse neigh? Essays and Miscellanies
• “Very extraordinary!” returned the theologue; “a Scythian family praying to God without having been instructed by us!” A Philosophical Dictionary
• Sixth comes the river Hypakyris, which starts from a lake, and flowing through the midst of the nomad Scythians runs out into the sea by the city of Carkinitis, skirting on its right bank the region of Hylaia and the so-called racecourse of Achilles. The History of Herodotus
• The Persians had established seven garrison towns on the river to fortify their northern border against Scythian raids. Alexander the Great
• Complete ignorance of viticulture was the mark of savages; so too was the drinking of undiluted wine, which was associated with northern barbarians such as the Scythians (in modern Crimea).
• The Celtic divinity, Teutates, has his name from the Celtic teuta, people; taviti, fire, appearing here in its secondary and derived sense of PEOPLE, just as it does in its own Scythian language in Targitavus's second name, Tavit-varus, Teutaros, the protector of the people. Celtic Literature
• It was the customary style of polite letter-writing in Scythia at that period, the Scythians being in just that stage of barbarism which the Persians, the Egyptians, and the other great nations of the East had left behind and forgotten. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers