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Headword: *sku/qai
Adler number: sigma,703
Translated headword: Scythians
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In the time of the Roman Emperor Claudius [II Gothicus],[1] the survivors of the Scythians, being roused as a result of their previous attacks in the time of Gallienus the small,[2] having taken as allies (H)eruli and Peuci and Goths and gathering together around the River Tyras,[3] entered the Black Sea.[4] After they had built 900 ships and had put 32,000 men on them, they sailed across the Black Sea, attacked the city of Tomi[5] and were repelled. [They fared] likewise against Marcianopolis.[6] Moreover, when they arrived at the straits of Propontis, the ships dashed against one another because of the current, and their hulls were carried in disarray when the pilots lost hold of the rudders. The result was that some sank with their crews and others without men ran aground, and the majority [of the men] perished. The survivors, on the other hand, sailed against Cyzicus and, after they had been carried as far as [Mount] Athos and had taken care of the ships, besieged Cassandria and Thessalonica. After they were repelled, they went inland, plundered the entire country, and were destroyed throughout several countries. But as many as survived were enlisted by the Byzantines and turned to farming.
Greek Original:
*sku/qai: o(/ti e)pi\ *klaudi/ou basile/ws *(rwmai/wn *skuqw=n oi( perileifqe/ntes e)k tw=n prolabousw=n e)parqe/ntes e)fo/dwn e)pi\ *gallihnou= tou= mikrou=, *)erou/lous kai\ *peuke/stas kai\ *go/tqous paralabo/ntes kai\ peri\ to\n *tu/rannon potamo\n a)qroisqe/ntes ei)se/balon ei)s to\n *po/nton. nauphghsa/menoi de\ ploi=a e)nnako/sia kai\ tou/tois e)mbiba/santes b# kai\ l# muria/das, a)/rantes dia\ tou= *po/ntou, po/lei *to/mei prosbalo/ntes a)pekrou/sqhsan. w(sau/tws kai\ *markianoupo/lei. e)pei\ de\ ta\ stena\ th=s *proponti/dos kate/labon, e)k tou= r(eu/matos ta\ ploi=a a)llh/lois prosh/ratte, kai\ e)fe/reto ta\ ska/fh su\n ou)deni\ ko/smw|, tw=n kubernhtw=n meqie/ntwn tou\s oi)/akas: w(/ste ta\s me\n katadu=nai au)ta/ndrous tina\s de\ kai\ a)ndrw=n e)rh/mous o)kei=lai: kai\ plei=stoi a)pw/lonto. oi( de\ perileifqe/ntes th\n e)pi\ *ku/zikon e)/pleon kai\ a)/xri tou= *)/aqw parenexqe/ntes kai\ tw=n ploi/wn e)pime/leian poihsa/menoi *kassa/ndreian kai\ *qessaloni/khn e)polio/rkoun. a)pokrousqe/ntes de\ ei)s th\n meso/geion a)naba/ntes pa=san xw/ran e)lhi/+zonto kai\ kata\ diafo/rous xw/ras diefqei/ronto. o(/soi de\ diesw/qhsan, *(rwmai/ois sunhriqmh/qhsan kai\ pro\s gewrgi/an e)tra/ponto.
Notes:
Zosimus, Historia nova 1.42, 43, 46.
[1] M. Aurelius Claudius Gothicus, reigned 268-270 CE (in succession to Gallienus, about to be mentioned). See De Imperatoribus Romanis entry by Richard Weigel at web address 1.
[2] This phrase is not in Zosimus, and makes no sense anyway. Perhaps (TP) emend tou= mikrou= to pro\ mikrou=, 'a little before in the time of Gallienus,' most probably referring to the Heruli's sacking of Greek cities in 267 CE.
[3] Tyrannos here, by a scribal slip. This is the present-day R. Dniester ('Niester' in Gibbon) in the Ukraine.
[4] 269 CE.
[5] See generally tau 754.
[6] Present-day Reka Devniya, in Bulgaria.
Reference:
Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (available on-line at Project Gutenberg, etc.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; biography; chronology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Timothy Pepper on 25 April 2001@07:19:37.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 25 September 2002@06:26:12.
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David Whitehead (additions to notes; tweaks and cosmetics) on 27 August 2010@10:06:33.
David Whitehead (my typo) on 27 August 2010@13:30:22.
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