Herodotus, The Histories, Book 4, chapter 48

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The Ister, the greatest of all rivers which we know, flows with the same volume in summer and winter; it is most westerly Scythian river of all, and the greatest because other rivers are its tributaries. [2] Those that make it great, five flowing through the Scythian country, are these: the river called by Scythians Porata and by Greeks Pyretus,¹ and besides this the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the Naparis, and the Ordessus. [3] The first-named of these rivers is a great stream flowing east and uniting its waters with the Ister; the second, the Tiarantus, is more westerly and smaller; the Ararus, Naparis, and Ordessus flow between these two and pour their waters into the Ister.

1 Probably the Pruth; the modern names of the other four rivers mentioned here are matters of conjecture.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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Cross-references to this page (9):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- Harper's, Ordessus
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ARARUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), DA´CIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), HIERASUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), NAPARIS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ORDESSUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PY´RETUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TIARANTUS
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- LSJ, ἀνακοιν-όω
- LSJ, αὐθι^γενής
- LSJ, εἰσβάλλω
- LSJ, συμμείγνυ_μι
- LSJ, συμπληθ-ύω
- LSJ, τοιόσδε

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