SCYTHIAN • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Scythian

... met her flight. Her fair neck shone, and her little feet were like flying doves. It seemed to Hippomenes as he watched her that there was fire in her lovely body. On and on she went as swift as the arrow that the Scythian shoots from his bow. And as he watched the race he was not sorry that the youths were being left behind. Rather would he have been enraged if one came near overtaking her, for now his heart was set upon winning her for his bride, and ...

— The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles • Padraic Colum

... One of the Scythian or northern nations to which we have referred were called the Massagetae. They formed a very extensive and powerful realm. They were governed, at this time, by a queen named Tomyris. She was a widow, past middle life. She had a son named Spargapizes, ...

— Cyrus the Great - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott