The Twitter Herodotus

4.21 East of the Tanaïs are the Sauromatians, who are not Scythian, and north of them the Budini.

4.22 North of the Budini it's desolate for a stretch, then there are some non-Scythian tribes of hunters, and east of them more Scythians.

4.23 Beyond these Scythian lands there's rugged terrain where the Argippaei live. They are all bald from birth and they live under trees.

4.24 So we know about the bald guys & the other people I've mentioned through both the Scythians & the Greeks who live around the Black Sea.

4.25 No one knows who lives north of the baldies (who say the land is inhabited by goat-footed men). The Issedones live east of the baldies.

4.26 The Issedones eat their dead fathers and clean out and gild the heads afterwards. Their men and women have equal power.

4.27 The Issedones say that beyond them live one-eyed men and griffins.

4.28 Winter in Scythia lasts for 8 months and it is very severe. The sea freezes over. The rest of the year is also cold, & it rains a lot.

4.29 I think the cold is why the oxen in Scythia don’t grow horns. On the other hand, in Libya, as Homer says, lambs grow horns from birth.

4.30 In Elis, meanwhile, mules can’t be bred, even though it’s not cold there. The Eleans say it’s because of a curse.