70. In the following manner the Scythians make oaths to whomsoever they make them:-they pour wine into a great earthenware cup and mingle with it blood of those who are taking the oath to one another, either making a prick with an awl or cutting with a dagger a little way into their body, and then they dip into the cup a sword and arrows and a battle-axe and a javelin;
70. Szythiarrek honela zin egiten dute berauekin zin egin dezaketenekin: lurrezko edalontzi handi batera ardoa isuriz, zin-egileen odola nahasten diote, aurrez gorputza ezten batez zulatuz edota ganibetaz pitin bat ebakiz, eta ondoren zimitarra, geziak, sagaria eta azkona edalontzian sartuz;