Sauromatae
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in the texts
Protrepticus
People described as reverencing the scimitar and, elsewhere, fire, cited to Hicesius and Nymphodorus.
and of the Scythians, the Sauromatae, as Hicesius says in his work On Mysteries, reverence the scimitar.
Orations
A people neighboring the Black Sea region, associated with a royal fort and as adversaries of Callistratus in war.
And he was said to be brave too in matters of war, and to have slain many of the Sauromatae and taken others captive.
And the rivers empty into the sea by the fort of Alector, which is said to belong to the wife of the king of the Sauromatae.
The Histories
A people descended from intermarriage of Amazons and Scythian youths, whose women retain warlike customs.
To this too the youths agreed;
for we and they do not have the same customs.
About the Sauromatae, the story is as follows.