They dressed in the skins of cattle; they tattooed their bodies.

They were very swift of foot, and were able to run down wild beasts in the hunt.
They were also greatly given to robbery, and caravans passing to and fro had to guard against them.
"One feature in their character has to my mind a strange significance, and that is their feelings with regard to death.

It was not the Kosekin love of death, yet it was something which must certainly be considered as approximating to it.

For Agatharcides says that in their burials they were accustomed to fasten the corpse to a stake, and then gathering round, to pelt it with stones amid shouts of laughter and wild merriment.

They also used to strangle the old and infirm, so as to deliver them from the evils of life.