Scythia

Scythia means “Scythia, land north of the Black Sea”.

Latin word, found 61 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.88: quod si in Scythiam aut in Brittanniam sphaeram aliquis tulerit hanc quam nuper familiaris noster effecit Posidonius, cuius singu …

Vergil, Georgics 3.197: incubuit, Scythiaeque hiemes atque arida differt

Ovid, Heroides 12.27: Hic Ephyren bimarem, Scythia tenus ille nivosa

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.