Scythian

(noun.) the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians.

(noun.) a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia.

(adj.) of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their culture or language .

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• Crassus found himself against the Scythian again; against mobile tribes of horsemen led by a monarch in Median costume. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Parthians of the first century B.C. probably mingled Scythian and Mongolian elements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Scythian allies of Assyria drop out of the story after this. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They crossed the Danube, and prepared to give battle to the Scythian army and take the cities of the Scythians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No doubt they assimilated much Scythian population as they spread down to the Black Sea. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If Darius escaped they could be on his side; if he was destroyed, there was nothing of which the Scythians could complain. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Would the Scythians go back and destroy the Persians to make sure of them while the Greeks on their part destroyed the bridge? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were, perhaps, not so far advanced along the nomadic line as the Scythians of the great plains. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Some Scythians have been and have gone again. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But Crassus was less quick than Darius to realize the need of withdrawal, and the Parthians were better bowmen than the Scythians Darius met. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In accordance with the suggestions of Histi?us the Scythians rode off in search of the Persians, and so left the Greeks safe in either event. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the Scythians had no cities, and they evaded a battle, and the war degenerated into a tedious and hopeless pursuit of more mobile enemies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It would seem there had been a discussion between the Scythians and the Greeks. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the east the Scythians and the Parthians and Bactrians also drove southward. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Indeed, even as they parleyed the Greeks set to work to demolish the end that linked them to the Scythians as quickly as possible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Aryan Scythians are for the Semitic Assyrians; the Aryan Medes for the Semitic Babylonians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They crossed the Danube, and prepared to give battle to the Scythian army and take the cities of the Scythians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A fourth people, related to these Aryan tribes, who appear at this time in the narrative of Herodotus, are the Scythians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The judgment of Thucydides, that both Europe and Asia could not resist the Scythians united, has been verified by the experience of all ages. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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