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.
For the city has taken its name from the Borysthenes, because of the beauty and greatness of the river, but it lies near the Hypanis, both the present city and the one formerly so inhabited, not far above the so-called promontory of Hippolaus, on the opposite side.
But the city of the Borysthenites is not in greatness up to its ancient repute, because of the continual captures and the wars.
But on the right a river appears, and those sailing in conjecture the depth from the current.
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.
there is a region between the Borysthenes and Hypanis rivers, whose name is Exampaeus;
The burial-places of the kings are in the land of the Gerrhi, which is the end of the navigation of the Borysthenes.
When the Borysthenes comes near the sea, the Hypanis mingles with it, running into the same marsh;
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;