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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 491 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARIMASPI , an See also:

ancient See also:people in the extreme N.E. of See also:Scythia (q.v.), probably the eastern See also:Altai. All accounts of them go back to a poem by See also:Aristeas of Proconnesus, from whom See also:Herodotus (iii. 116, iv. 27) See also:drew his See also:information. They were supposed to be one-eyed (hence their Scythian name), and to steal See also:gold from the griffins that guarded it. In See also:art they are usually represented as richly dressed Asiatics, picturesquely grouped with their See also:griffin foes; the subject is often described by poets from See also:Aeschylus to See also:Milton. They are so nearly mythical that it is impossible to insist on the usual See also:identification with the ancestors of the See also:Huns. Their gold was probably real, as gold still comes from the Altai.

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