Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 22.8.44

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[44] But the river Danube, rising near Augst,¹ and the mountains near the Raetian frontier, extends over a wide tract, and after receiving sixty tributaries, nearly all of which are navigable, breaks through this Scythian shore into the sea through seven mouths.²

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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History (English) (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).)

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[44] Amnis vero Danubius, oriens prope Rauracos montesque¹ confines limitibus Raeticis, per latiorem orbem praetentus, ac sexaginta navigabilis paene omnes² recipiens fluvios, septem ostiis per hoc Scythicum litus erumpit in mare.

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History

1. According to Pliny, N.H. iv. 79, the Danube rises

in Germania iugus montis Abnobae ex adverso Rauraci Galliae oppidi.

For the seven months, cf. Val. Flacc. viii. 186,

septem exit aquis, septem ostia pandit.

2. The earlier writers counted only five; Pliny and Ptolemy, six; Strabo, seven.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 22.8.44

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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