Editing Androphagi (section)

===The Persian invasion===
When the [[Persians|Persian]] [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid]] king [[Darius the Great|Darius I]] [[Scythian campaign of Darius I|attacked the Scythians]] in 513 BC, the Scythian king [[Idanthyrsus]] summoned the kings of the peoples surrounding his kingdom to a meeting to decide how to deal with the Persian invasion. The kings of the [[Budini]], [[Gelonians]], and [[Sarmatians]] accepted to help the Scythians against the Persian attack, while the kings of the [[Agathyrsi]], Androphagi, [[Melanchlaeni]], [[Neuri]], and [[Tauri]] refused to support the Scythians.{{sfn|Herodotus|Godolphin|1973}}

During the campaign, the Scythians and the Persian army pursuing them passed through the territories of the Melanchlaeni, Androphagi, and Neuri, before they reached the borders of the Agathyrsi, who refused to let the Scythian divisions to pass into their territories and find refuge there, thus forcing the Scythians to return to [[Scythia]] with the Persians pursuing them.{{sfn|Fol|Hammond|1988|p=241}}{{sfn|Herodotus|Godolphin|1973}}