To Herodotus and his contemporary Greeks Egypt, Arabia and India were the South; Thrace and scythia were the North; and Hither Asia was the East: for they conceived nothing beyond except the fabled stream of Ocean.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
I have been away from scythia since I was a boy, and should find myself a stranger there."
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
I tell thee, boy, that were I Ruas the king, the grass should never grow where the hoofs of my war-horse trod; scythia should be mine; Persia should be mine; Rome should be mine.
"Historic Girls"
E. S. Brooks