Scythians, the name of a people of various tribes that occupied the steppes of SE. of Europe and W. of Asia adjoining eastward, were of nomadic habit; kept herds of cattle and horses, and were mostly in a semi-savage state beyond the pale of civilisation; the region they occupied is called Scythia.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Scylla and Charybdis * Seabury, Samuel