This event put heart
into all the Scythians, and they no longer considered themselves worsted by the Sauromatians,
seeing that the enemy had not carried off our
greatest good, but that our noble disposition was
left to us and our constancy in friendship. And
the same thing frightened the Sauromatians extremely, for they calculated what sort of men we
would be to fight with when we were prepared if
we showed such endurance when we were surprised. So when night came they left most of the


 



flocks, and burned the wagons and retreated. But
Amizokes could no longer bear to see at the price
of Dandamis's blindness, so he, too, put out his
own eyes, and they were both permitted a quiet
life by the Scythian commonwealth, and supported
at the public expense with every honor.