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felt ap rehensive of not being able to 
bass the large tivers, ‘suchas ‘the 
alys, the Parthenius, andthe San- 
fee thése Nomiades liyed'in’ the 
Hae of Themis¢yra, upon the’ produce 
thei} ‘flocks; “dnd the” hooty whith 
thie acquired: by pillaging their neigh- 
ours.”* Tn’ ‘Scythia’ the women a¢com: 
Mee eir husbands to war and to 
the’ clase, and’ were skilful in horse- 
ae the use of the bow ; here 
guarded the shore. Some Greek 
als rs having met, fought with, and 
Been’ ‘obtiquieted ‘by, them, reported 
‘these coasts to be entirely inhabited by 
mien, who put every man that came 
sre them to death ; and from hence 
Syl beshinie then’ to defend them- 
past, , and “at last to subjugate their 
ibours ; that’ they had attempted 
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an expedition against Athens; and 
that their queen Thalestris had gone 
herself, or sent ambassadors, to the 
camp of Alexander,—is what, in defi- 
ance of the authority of many poets, 
philosophers, and_historians of anti- 
quity, we are no Jonger permitted to 
believe. We may remember the ex- 
pression of Lysimachus, when Onery- 
critus read to him the history of Tha- 
lestris, with which he had embcllished 
his work upon the exploits of Alex- 
ander—“ Oh! where was. I at, that 
time?” said Lysimachus to him, smiling. 
It is worthy of remark, that the 
names of Menalippa, Hyppolita, &e. 
given to these Sauromatides, these 
Amazons, are all Greek names; al- 
though itis manifest that these women 
must have borne barbarian names 
and derived from the language which 
they spoke. 
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