sī jī tài rén (Scythians)，
yòu yì xī gǔ tí rén、
xī xú yà rén huò sài xī yà rén；
gǔ dài bō sī rén chēng zhī wéi Saka
sài kè rén，
fēn wéi dài jiān mào sài kè rén、
yǐn háo má zhī sài kè rén、
hǎi nà biān de sài kè rén；
zhōng guó《
shǐ jì》、《
hàn shū》
chēng zhī wéi sài zhǒng、
jiān mào sài rén huò sà jiā rén，
shì nán '
é cǎo yuán shàng yìn '
ōu yǔ xì dōng yī lǎng yǔ zú zhī yóu mù mín zú，
qí suí jū dì cóng jīn rì '
é luó sī dōng bù de '
ōu zhōu bù fēn yī zhí dào nèimēng gǔ hé '
è '
ěr duō sī shā mò，
shì shǐ zài zuì zǎo zhī yóu mù mín zú，
shàn yú yǎng mǎ，
jù xìn qí shù yǔ nǎi lào děng jiē chū yú qí fā míng；
gōng yuán qián 7
shì jì céng duì gāo jiā suǒ、
xiǎo yà xì yà、
yà měi ní yà、
mǐ dǐ yǐ jí yà shù dì guó dà jǔ rù qīn，
wēi xié xī yà jìn qī shí nián，
qí qí bīng chí chěng yú kǎ pà duō xì yà dào mǐ dǐ、
gāo jiā suǒ dào xù lì yà zhī jiān，
xún zhǎo lüè duó wù；
qí hòu zhú jiàn shuāi luò，
fēn wéi zhòng duō bù luò，
gōng yuán sì、
wǔ shì jì mín zú dà qiān xǐ shí suí xiōng nú rù qīn '
ōu zhōu zhī '
ā lán rén jí wéi qí zhōng zhī yī bù。
yòu rén shuō zài xián hǎi yǐ běi dài jiān mào nà zhī hòu lái chéng wéi tū jué '
ā shǐ nà bù
sī jī tài rén méi yòu wén zì。
The Scythians or Scyths (Greek: Σκύθης, Σκύθοι) were an Ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scyths in this area. Much of the surviving information about the Scyths comes from the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 440 BC) in his Histories, and archaeologically from the exquisite goldwork found in Scythian burial mounds in Ukraine and Southern Russia.
The name "Scythian" has also been used to refer to various peoples seen as similar to the Scythians, or who lived anywhere in a vast area covering present-day Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia—known until medieval times as Scythia.