Doriscus
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
The Histories
A wide coastal plain in Thrace on the river Hebrus, site of a Persian fortress built under Darius, where Xerxes musters, counts, and organizes his entire land army.
The territory of Doriscus is in Thrace, a wide plain by the sea, and through it flows a great river, the Hebrus;
All the ships had now arrived at Doriscus, and the captains at Xerxes ' command brought them to the beach near Doriscus, where stands the Samothracian city of Sane, and Zone;
but the total of the whole land army was shown to be one million and seven hundred thousand.
Fourth Philippic
A place in the Thracian sphere neglected by Athens and associated with Philip's gains.
for these were the places that were disregarded immediately after the peace, and many of you perhaps do not even know of their existence.
Were you not deceived about Phocis, Thermopylae, the Thrace-ward districts, Doriscus, Serrium, Cersobleptes himself?
On the Chersonese
A place named among the losses and deceptions attributed to Philip.
Were you not deceived about Phocis, Thermopylae, the Thraceward districts, Doriscus, Serrium, Cersobleptes himself?