ARGIPPEANS, a part of the ancient Scythian nation. The men and the women were bald, hump-backed, and had great chins. Their language was totally peculiar to themselves. Their dress was the same with that of the other Scythians. Their food was the fruit of a tree called Pontica, about as high as a fig-tree: it bore a kind of filbert; the kernel of which in form resembled a bean. They sucked from it a thick black liquor; and this liquor they sometimes drank with milk. The grosser part of this fruit, after it had been pressed, served them instead of animal food; for they had but few cattle, and were therefore unskilled in the care of flocks and herds. They lay in winter under trees, over which they spread a white covering; this covering they used not in the summer. None dared to offer them any injury; for they were deemed sacred. Therefore they had no arms; and were unacquainted with the art of war. They determined the differences and disputes of their neighbours; and whoever fled to them from persecution, found a safe asylum; it would have been sacrilege to hurt, to insult him in their country.