This is to them instead of washing, for in fact they do not wash their bodies at all in water. Their women however pound with a rough stone the wood of the cypress and cedar and frankincense tree, pouring in water with it, and then with this pounded stuff, which is thick, they plaster over all their body and also their face; and not only does a sweet smell attach to them by reason of this, but also when they take off the plaster on the next day, their skin is clean and shining.

76. This nation also 616 is very averse to adopting strange customs, rejecting even those of other tribes among themselves, 617 but especially those of the Hellenes, as the history of Anacharsis and also afterwards of Skyles proved. 618 For as to Anacharsis first, when he was returning to the abodes of the Scythians, after having visited many lands 619