The Massagetae wear the same kinds of clothes as the Scythians and live much the same. . . .These are their customs: each of them marries a wife, but the wives they have in common. . . . There arc no definite limits to life other than this: when a man grows very old, all his relatives come together and kill him, and sheep and goats along with him, and stew all the meat together and have a banquet of it: This is regarded as the happiest lot; any man who dies of disease they do not eat, but bury him in the ground, lamenting that he did not come to being eaten. They do not sow land but live off cattle and also fish, which they have in abundance from the river Araxes. They are drinkers of milk. Of the gods, they worship the sun only, to...