< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

SCYTHAE (Gr. Σκύθαι), in Herodotus (iv. 1–142) and Hippocrates (De aere, 24 sqq.), a definite nation giving its name to Scythia (q.v.); in later writers a general term for the inhabitants of that country without distinction of race.

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