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.
Copies of all these decrees on stone were set up by you and by Leucon in the Bosporus, in the Piraeus, and at Hierum.
Now from the Bosporus there come to Athens about four hundred thousand bushels;
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.
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.
and that he himself neither put out to sea nor visited Bosporus, has been made clear to you from the dates and the depositions.
For the debt was in Bosporus, a place which Demaretus never visited;
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 he came, then, to Bosporus, having letters from me, which I had given him to deliver to my slave, who was spending the winter there, and to a partner of mine,—in which letter I had stated the sum which I had lent and the security, and bade them, as soon as the goods should be unshipped, to inspect them and keep an eye on them,—the fellow did not deliver to them the letters which he had receiv …
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.
the narrow neck of the channel, called Bosporus, across which the bridge was thrown, is about one hundred and twenty stades long.
While Darius was making preparations against the Scythians, and sending messengers to direct some to furnish infantry and some to furnish ships, and others again to bridge the Thracian Bosporus, Artabanus, son of Hystaspes and Darius ' brother, by no means wanted him to make an expedition against the Scythians, telling him how hard that people were to deal with.
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.