[439] Deut. xii. 6, 11, 17; xiv. 27-29. [440] Deut. xviii. 6-8. [441] Deut. xx. 10-17. [442] Deut. vii. 1-4. [443] Deut. xvii. 2-7. [444] Deut. xiii. 1-5. [445] Deut. xiii. 6-11. [446] Deut. xiii. 12-17. Cf. Exod. xxii. 18, 20. [447] Deut. xvii. 14-20. [448] Deut. xxi. 5. [449] Deut. xvi. 8-12; xix. 17; xxv. 13. [450] Deut. xvii. 4, 6; xix. 15. [451] Deut. xix. 19. [452] Deut. xvi. 19; xxvii. 19. [453] Deut. xv. [454] Vol. II. p. 220. [455] Deut. xv. 6; xxiii. 20; xxviii. 12. [456] Deut. xv. 7-11. [457] Vol. II. p. 220. [458] Deut. xxiv. 6, 10-13, 17. [459] Deut. xii. 12; xvi. 11, 14; xv. 12-18. [460] Deut. xxiv. 15. [461] Deut. xxiv. 19-22. [462] Deut. xxvii. 19. [463] Deut. xxvii. 18. Cf. Levit. xix. 14. [464] Deut. xxii. 1-4. [465] Deut. xxi. 6. [466] Deut. xx. 19, 20. [467] Deut. xxv. 4. [468] Above, p. 31. [469] 2 Kings xxiii. 4-25. 2 Chron. xxxiv.; xxxv. 1-9. Jesus, Son of Sirach, xlix. 1, 2. CHAPTER XI. THE NATIONS OF THE NORTH. Far from the centres of power and civilisation in Hither Asia, beyond the Caucasus and the Black Sea, dwelt wandering tribes who, in the accounts of the Greeks, were generally denoted by the common name of Scyths. It was known at an early time, among the Greeks, that these tribes which dwelt to the north of the Thracians lived on their herds, especially on the milk of their mares. Even the Homeric poems make mention of the "'horse-milkers,' of the 'Thracians,' who live poorly on milk, the most just of men." The name "Scythians" is first found in Hesiod, who calls them "horse-milking eaters of milk, who live on waggons." Æschylus says that the hordes of wandering Scythians live in desolate plains, on the shore of Oceanus, at the farthest, pathless end of the earth, on the lake Mæotis (sea of Azof), and to the east of it; "they dwell in woven tents, which move on wheels, they eat the cheese of mares, and are armed with far-shooting bows."[470]