BOOK IV. XII. 81-83 



Kingdom of Vannius," the opposite side of the eountry 

 is oocupied by the Basternae and then other German 

 tribes. Agrippa describes the whole of this area 

 from the Danube to the sea as being 1200 miles in 

 length by 396 in breadth, as far as the river Vistula 

 in the direction of the Sarmatian desert. The name 

 of Scythians has spread in every direction, as far as 

 the Sarmatae and the Germans, but this old designa- 

 tion has not continued for any except the raost 

 outlying sections of these races, hving almost unknown 

 to the rest of mankind. 



After the Danube come the towns of Cremniscoi -^'o'^''' <»air 

 and Aepohum, the Macrocremni Mountains, and yca. 

 the famous river Dniester, which gives its name to 

 the town on the site which previously was called 

 Ophiusa. A large island in the Dniester, inhabited 

 by the Tyragetae, is 130 miles from the False Mouth 

 of the Danube. Then come the Axiacae named 

 from the river Axiaces,* and beyond them the Cro- 

 byzi, the river Rhode, the Sangarian Gulf, the port of 

 Ordesus, and 120 miles from the Dniester the river 

 Dnieper and the lake and tribe of the same name, 

 and the town 15 miles inland from the sea, the old 

 names of which were Olbiopolis and Miletopohs. 

 Returning to the coast, we come to the Port of 

 the Achaeans and the Isle of Achilles, famous for 

 the tomb of that hero, and 125 miles from it a penin- 

 sula stretching out at a slant in the shape of a sword, 

 and called the Race-course of Achilles from having 

 been his exercising ground ; its length is given by 

 Agrippa as 80 miles. The whole of this stretch 

 is occupied by the Scythian Sardi and Siraci. 

 Then there is a wooded region that hag given its 

 name to the Forest Sea that washes its coast ; tlie 



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