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494 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *o, entry oi)koume/nh
   the inhabited world (including non-Greek lands, as Ethiopia, India, Scythia), as opp. possibly uninhabited regions, cf. (26.67)

2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter I
   IMA´US the great mountain chain, which, according to the ancients, divided Northern Asia into Scythia intra Imaum and Scythia extra Imaum. (22.65)

3. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter I
   In its most definite application, it appears to mean the western part of the Himalaya, between the Paropamisus and the Emodi Montes; but when it is applied to some great chain, extending much farther to the north and dividing Scythia into two parts—Scythia intra Imaum and Scythia extra Imaum—it must either be understood to mean the Altai Mountains, or else some imaginary range, which cannot be identified with any actually existing mountains. (20.22)

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11 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part 1 act 1, scene 2, line 241
   Tamburlaine These are my friends in whom I more rejoice,
   Than dooth the King of Persea in his Crowne:
   And by the love of Pyllades and Orestes,
   Whose statutes we adore in Scythia,
   Thy selfe and them shall never part from me,
   Before I crowne you kings in Asia.
   (3.71)

2. Faust Book chapter 23
   Faustus being on such an high hill, thought to looke ouer all the world and beyond, for he ment to see Paradise, but he durst not commune with his Spirit thereof: and being on the hill of Caucasus, hee sawe the whole lande of India and Scythia, and towards the East as hee looked he sawe a mightie cleare strike of fire comming from heauen vpon the earth, euen as it had been one of the beames of the Sunne, he sawe in the valley foure mighty waters springing, one had his course towards India, the second towards Egypt, the third & fourth towards Armenia. (3.43)

3. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part 1 act 2, scene 5, line 81
   Tamburlaine Why then Theridamas, Ile first assay,
   To get the Persean Kingdome to my selfe:
   Then thou for Parthia, they for Scythia and Medea.
   (2.65)

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6 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Scythian
   Scythian, a native of Scythia: . (8.29)

2. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Oppose
   o. not Scythia to ambitious Rome, . (5.20)

3. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Scythia
   Scythia, a country in the east of Europe, part of the present Russia: was ever S. half so barbarous? (4.94)

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1 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 44, object 1
   According to their fabulous history, they came from Scythia, afterwards dwelt in Pontus, and in course of time spread themselves over a great part of Asia Minor; they built numerous cities, and carried their hostilities into different and distant countries. (2.94)

1 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Medical history of Michigan: Volume II page 207
   Surgery could hardly have fared so badly had our civilization been derived from any other people, for even the barbarians before whose assaults the Roman Empire succumbed and who carried thousands of captives throughout the plains of scythia, treated the physicians who were among then with more respect than they accorded to the followers of any other profession. (2.51)

2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar-Volume 2 page 149
   Those we call the Crym-Tartars, border upon Moldavia, Podolia, Lituania, and Russia, are much more regular than the interior parts of Scythia. (2.51)

2. John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar-Volume 2 page 149
   NOw you are to understand, Tartary and Scythia are all one, but so large and spacious, few or none could ever perfectly describe it, nor all the severall kinds of those most barbarous people that inhabit it. (2.04)