Bosporus
place · 6 works · 6 mentions · 11 anchored passages
his country · the Thracian Bosporus · the channel
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Region to which Gylon fled and where he received land from local tyrants.
He came to Bosporus and there received as a present from the tyrants of the land a place called the Gardens.
Against Lacritus
Destination in the contracted maritime route.
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;
Against Leptines
Black Sea region ruled by Leucon and central to Athens' grain supply.
Now from the Bosporus there come to Athens about four hundred thousand bushels;
Copies of all these decrees on stone were set up by you and by Leucon in the Bosporus, in the Piraeus, and at Hierum.
It follows that Leptines deprives Leucon, the ruler of the Bosporus, and his children of the reward which you bestowed on them.
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes
The place where the relevant debt was located.
For the debt was in Bosporus, a place which Demaretus never visited;
and that he himself neither put out to sea nor visited Bosporus, has been made clear to you from the dates and the depositions.
However, to prove that I am speaking the truth,—that our father died immediately after the settlement, that these men never brought suit against Demaretus for this money, and that he absolutely never went to sea, nor visited Bosporus, take the depositions.
Against Phormio
The Cimmerian Bosporan kingdom on the Black Sea, the destination of Phormio's voyage where he allegedly repaid Lampis and where the ship was later wrecked.
After this, men of Athens, the defendant was left in Bosporus, while Lampis put to sea, and was shipwrecked not far from the port;
And when he might have paid the money in Athens, seeing that it had been lent for the double voyage, has he paid it in Bosporus, and too much by thirteen minae?
When, therefore, the shipowner bade him put on board according to the agreement the goods bought with my money, this fellow, who now alleges that he has paid the debt in full, said that he could not ship the goods because his trash was unsalable;
The Histories
The strait between Europe and Asia bridged by Darius's engineers for the Scythian invasion, later marked with commemorative pillars that were eventually moved to Byzantium.
These pillars were afterward carried by the Byzantines into their city and there used to build the altar of Orthosian
the narrow neck of the channel, called Bosporus, across which the bridge was thrown, is about one hundred and twenty stades long.
Now if my reckoning is correct, the place where king Darius bridged the Bosporus was midway between Byzantium and the temple at the entrance of the sea.