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These are the native-born Scythian rivers that help to swell it; but the Maris river, which commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas, Auras, and Tibisis, three other great rivers that pour into it, flow north from the heights of +Stara Planina (mountain range), Europe Haemus. 1 The Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace; the Cius river, which cuts through the middle of +Stara Planina (mountain range), Europe Haemus, from the Paeonians and the mountain range of +Nomos Rodhopis [25.5,41.83] (department), Western Thrace, Greece, Europe Rhodope.
These are the native-born Scythian rivers that help to swell it; but the Maris river, which commingles with the Ister, flows from the Agathyrsi. The Atlas, Auras, and Tibisis, three other great rivers that pour into it, flow north from the heights of +Stara Planina (mountain range), Europe Haemus. 1 The Athrys, the Noes, and the Artanes flow into the Ister from the country of the Crobyzi in Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace; the Cius river, which cuts through the middle of +Stara Planina (mountain range), Europe Haemus, from the Paeonians and the mountain range of +Nomos Rodhopis [25.5,41.83] (department), Western Thrace, Greece, Europe Rhodope.
[2] The
Angrus river flows north from
+Illyria (region (general)), Europe Illyria into the Triballic plain and the
Brongus river, and the
Brongus into the
Ister, which receives these two great rivers into itself. The
Carpis and another river called
Alpis also flow northward, from the country north of the
Ombrici, to flow into it;
[3] for the
Ister traverses the whole of
Europe (continent)Europe, rising among the
Celts, who are the most westerly dwellers in
Europe (continent)Europe, except for the
Cynetes, and flowing thus clean across
Europe (continent)Europe it issues forth along the borders of
Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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