BOOK IV. XII. 83-85 



inhabitants are called the tribe of the Indigenae. 

 Beyond is the river Somara, which forms the 

 boundars' between the Nomad and Agricultural 

 tribes, and then the Acesinus. Some authorities 

 say that below Olbia the Somara flows into the 

 Dnieper, but the more accurate make the Bug a 

 tributary of the Dnieper — so erroneous it is to put 

 the latter in a region of Asia. 



Here the sea runs in, forming a large gulf, until auifoj 

 there is only a space of five miles separating it from '^^^ropou. 

 the Sea of Azov, and it forms the coasthne of vast 

 tracts of land and numerous races ; this is called the 

 Gulf of Negropoh.<» Here is the river Pacyris, the 

 towns of Navarum and Carcine, and behind them 

 Lake Buces, which discharges into the sea by an 

 artificial channel. Lake Buces itself is shut ofF by 

 a rocky ridge from the Bay of Coretus in the Sea 

 of Azov. Into it run the rivers Buces, Gerrhus 

 and Bug, coming from different directions : for the 

 Gerrhus separates the Nomads and the Basihdes, 

 while the Bug flows through the Nomads and 

 Foresters and discharges by an artificially made 

 channel into the Buces and by a natural channel into 

 the Coretus : this region has the name of Scythia 

 Sindica. 



At the river Carcinites begins the Crimea, itself CHmea. 

 also formerly surrounded by the sea where there are 

 now low-lying stretches of land, though afterwards 

 it rises in huge mountain ridges. The population 

 includes 30 tribes ; of these 23 hve in the interior, 

 6 towns are occupied by the Orgocyni, Characeni, 

 Assyrani, Stactari, Acisahtae and Cahordi, and the 

 Scythotauri * occupy the actual ridge. On the west 

 side they are adjoined by the New Peninsula and on 



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