Pliny
Book 6
CHAP. 7.--LAKE MIEOTIS AND THE ADJOINING NATIONS.
After passing Cimmerium, the coast1 is inhabited by the Maeotici, the Vali, the Serbi, the Arrechi, the Zingi, and the Psessi. We then come to the river Tanais, which discharges itself into the sea by two mouths, and the banks of which are inhabited by the Sarmatae, the descendants of the Medi, it is said, a people divided into numerous tribes. The first of these are the Sauromatae Gynaecocratumeni, the husbands of the Amazons. Next to them are the Aevazae, the Coitae, the Cicimeni, the Messeniani, the Costobocci, the Choatrae, the Zigae, the Dandarii, the Thyssagetae, and the Iyrcae, as far as certain rugged deserts and densely wooded vallies, beyond which again are the Arimphaei, who extend as far as the Riphaean Mountains. The Scythians call the river Tanais by the name of Silis, and the Maeotis the Temarunda, meaning the "mother of the sea." There is a city also at the mouth of the Tanais. The neighbouring country was inhabited first by the Carians, then by the Clazomenii and Maeones, and after them by the Panticapenses.

There are some writers who state that there are the following nations dwelling around the Maeotis, as far as the Ceraunian mountains; at a short distance from the shore, the Napitae, and beyond them, the Essedones, who join up to the Colchians, and dwell upon the summits of the mountains: after these again, the Camac?, the Orani, the Autacae, the Mazacasi, the Cantiocae, the Agamathae, the Pici, the Rimosoli, the Acascomarci, and, upon the ridges of the Caucasus, the Itacalae, the Imadochi, the Rami, the Anclacae, the Tydii, the Carastasei, and the Anthiand?. The river Lagous runs from the Cath?an14 mountains, and into it flows the Opharus. Upon it are the tribes of the Cauthadae, and the Opharitae. Next to these are the rivers Menotharus and Imityes, which flow from the Cissian mountains, among the peoples called the Acdei, the Carnae, the Oscardei, the Accisi, the Gabri, the Gogari, and, around the source of the Imityes, the Imityi, and the Apatraei. Some writers say that the Auchet?, the Athernei, and the Asampat?, Scythian tribes, have made inroads upon this territory, and have destroyed the Tanaitae and the Inapaei to a man. Others again represent the Ocharius as running through the Cantici and the Sapaei, and the Tanais as passing through the territories of the Sarcharcei, the Herticei, the Spondolici, the Synhietae, the Anasi, the Issi, the Catetae, the Tagorae, the Caroni, the Neripi, the Agandei, the Mandarei, the Satarchei, and the Spalei.
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