[1] The entry locates Scythia in the land of the Rus'. See W. Treadgold "Three Byzantine Provinces and the First Byzantine Contacts with the Rus'," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 12/13 (1988/89): 132-44. On ancient Scythia, see D. Braund (ed.) (2005), Scythians and Greeks: Cultural Interactions in Scythia, Athens and the Early Roman Empire (sixth century BC - first century AD) . Exeter University Press.
[2] The verb is omitted here and in the entry's source (see n. 3 below). Hesychius sigma1152 has the reading *Sk. o)/neion dai=ta ("a dinner of donkey"). Alternatively, alpha 878 presents the proverb as a)kkizo/menos *Sku/qhs to\n o)/non "the Scythian flirted with/pretended to be disgusted at the donkey."
[3] The verb here could either be from pone/w (used in passive for meats, "to be dressed or cooked," LSJ pone/w B.II.2.b, but here in the middle voice in an active sense), or from o)ne/w = o)ni/nhmi ("to enjoy," LSJ o)ni/nhmi II.).
[4] Leutsch-Schneidewin, Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum (Hildesheim: G. Olms), 1961, appendix, p.452 no.74 (*Skuqh=s to\n o)/non). There is a slightly different version in Suda alpha 878 (n. 1 above), and see also next note.
[5] tau 764; see also omicron 695.
[6] From delta 854. See also alpha 2130.