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MARISUS

MARISUS (Μάρισος, Strab. 7.304; Μάρις, Hdt. 4.49; Marisia, Jornand. de Reb. Get. 5; Geogr. Rav.), a river of Dacia, which both Herodotus (l.c.) and Strabo (l.c.) describe as falling into the Danube; it is the same as the Marosch, which falls into the Theiss. (Heeren, Asiat. Nations, vol. ii. p. 10, trans.; Schafarik, Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 507.)

[E.B.J]

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.49
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