The Histories · 4.57

The eighth is the river Tanaïs, which starts in its flow at first from a large lake, and runs out into a still larger lake called Maiotis, which is the boundary between the Royal Scythians and the Sauromatai. Into this Tanaïs falls another river, whose name is Hyrgis.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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