ABSTRACT
And the fierce beasts of the world's wildernesses' track not the steps of the author who drinks of it, for the light breezes which forever flit. Around its margin, heap the sands. It is surrounded on all sides by precipitous rocks, and the waterfall of the stream which forms it falls into one side with perpetual dashing. The water of this pool is as transparent as the air, so that the stones and sand at the bottom seem, trembling in the light of noonday. Scythia was a vast and vague region, described in Herodotus. It is also possible that the lines are associated with Epipsychidion, parts of which are drafted in this nbk, for the reasons: the revised text suggests that they may be couplets; their location on the inside cover could imply late composition.
