Borysthenes
place · 3 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the Borysthenes river · the city of the Borysthenites · the temple of Zeus
spoken of as
1 expressiontemple of Zeus“Borysthenes”1 mention
Orations (Greek)
As I said this, they all straightway rushed to the temple of Zeus, where they are wont to deliberate.
in the texts
Orations
Greek city near the mouth of the Hypanis and Borysthenes rivers on the Black Sea, diminished by repeated barbarian conquest.
But on the right a river appears, and those sailing in conjecture the depth from the current.
And a sign of the desolation is the meanness of the buildings and the contraction of the city into a small compass.
And the rivers empty into the sea by the fort of Alector, which is said to belong to the wife of the king of the Sauromatae.
The Histories
The Borysthenes (Dnieper), described by Herodotus as Scythia's most productive river, with fine pasture, abundant fish, and sweet water; also the region near which Scythian kings are buried.
But of the rest, the Borysthenes is the most productive;
Its course is from the north, and it is known as far as the Gerrhan land;
there is a region between the Borysthenes and Hypanis rivers, whose name is Exampaeus;
Against Lacritus
Named limit of the optional Pontic voyage.
Androcles of Sphettus and Nausicrates of Carystus lent to Artemo and Apollodorus, both of Phaselis, three thousand drachmae in silver for a voyage from Athens to Mendê or Scionê, and thence to Bosporus—or if they so choose, for a voyage to the left parts of the Pontus as far as the Borysthenes, and thence back to Athens, on interest at the rate of two hundred and twenty-five drachmae on the thousand;