| The Scythians doing this howled with joy, according to the Father of History. |
| The slogan, heard so tellingly at Lucknow, is swelling up the glaciers of the Asiatic fatherland to save it from the Scythians! |
| The first and most effective race to use the horse in battle was the Scythians. |
| Throughout history the peninsula has been colonised by Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Khazars, Genoese and Venetians. |
| Herodotus found the practice among the Pontic Scythians, and, according to the Maccabees, the ancient Persians tore away the scalp of one of their prisoners. |
| It appears possible that eventually the Tocharians may be classified with the eastern Scythians. |
