§4.81.1πλῆθος δὲ τὸ Σκυθέων οὐκ οἷος τε ἐγενόμην ἀτρεκέως πυθέσθαι, ἀλλὰ διαφόρους λόγους περὶ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ ἤκουον· καὶ γὰρ κάρτα πολλοὺς εἶναι σφέας καὶ ὀλίγους ὡς Σκύθας εἶναι.
As for the number of the Scythians, I was not able to learn it with accuracy, but I heard different accounts concerning their number; for some said that they are very numerous, and others that they are few, considering they are Scythians.
§4.81.2τοσόνδε μέντοι ἀπέφαινόν μοι ἐς ὄψιν.
However, they showed me the following to my own eyes.
ἔστι μεταξὺ Βορυσθένεός τε ποταμοῦ καὶ Ὑπάνιος χῶρος, οὔνομα δέ οἱ ἐστὶ Ἐξαμπαῖος· τοῦ καὶ ὀλίγῳ τι πρότερον τούτων μνήμην εἶχον, φάμενος ἐν αὐτῷ κρήνην ὕδατος πικροῦ εἶναι, ἀπʼ ἧς τὸ ὕδωρ ἀπορρέον τὸν Ὕπανιν ἄποτον ποιέειν.
There is a place between the river Borysthenes and the Hypanis, and its name is Exampaeus; of which also a little before this I made mention, saying that there is in it a spring of bitter water, from which the water flowing out makes the Hypanis unfit to drink.
§4.81.3ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χώρῳ κέεται χαλκήιον, μεγάθει καὶ ἑξαπλήσιον τοῦ ἐπὶ στόματι τοῦ Πόντου κρητῆρος, τὸν Παυσανίης ὁ Κλεομβρότου ἀνέθηκε.
In this place lies a bronze vessel, in capacity six times as large as the mixing-bowl at the mouth of the Pontus, which Pausanias the son of Cleombrotus dedicated.
§4.81.4ὃς δὲ μὴ εἶδε κω τοῦτον, ὧδε δηλώσω. ἑξακοσίους ἀμφορέας εὐπετέως χωρέει τὸ ἐν Σκύθῃσι χαλκήιον, πάχος δὲ τὸ Σκυθικὸν τοῦτο χαλκήιον ἐστὶ δακτύλων ἕξ.
But for anyone who has not yet seen this, I will make it clear as follows: this bronze vessel among the Scythians easily holds six hundred amphorae, and the thickness of this Scythian bronze vessel is six fingers.
τοῦτο ὦν ἔλεγον οἱ ἐπιχώριοι ἀπὸ ἀρδίων γενέσθαι.
This, then, the inhabitants said was made from arrowheads.
§4.81.5βουλόμενον γὰρ τὸν σφέτερον βασιλέα, τῶ οὔνομα εἶναι Ἀριάνταν, τοῦτον εἰδέναι τὸ πλῆθος τὸ Σκυθέων κελεύειν μιν πάντας Σκύθας ἄρδιν ἕκαστον μίαν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὀιστοῦ κομίσαι. ὃς δʼ ἄν μὴ κομίσῃ, θάνατον ἀπείλεε.
For, wishing their king, whose name was Ariantas, to know the number of the Scythians, he commanded all the Scythians to bring each one arrowhead from his arrow; and whoever should not bring one, he threatened with death.
§4.81.6κομισθῆναι τε δὴ χρῆμα πολλὸν ἀρδίων καί οἱ δόξαι ἐξ αὐτέων μνημόσυνον ποιήσαντι λιπέσθαι. ἐκ τουτέων δή μιν τὸ χαλκήιον ποιῆσαι τοῦτο καὶ ἀναθεῖναι ἐς τὸν Ἐξαμπαῖον τοῦτον.
So a vast number of arrowheads was brought, and it pleased him to leave a memorial made from them; from these, then, he made this bronze vessel and dedicated it in this Exampaeus.
ταῦτα δὲ περὶ τοῦ πλήθεος τοῦ Σκυθέων ἤκουον.
These are the things which I heard concerning the number of the Scythians.