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.
Meanwhile Xerxes made a reckoning of his forces at Doriscus.
but the total of the whole land army was shown to be one million and seven hundred thousand.
The territory of Doriscus is in Thrace, a wide plain by the sea, and through it flows a great river, the Hebrus;
Fourth Philippic
A place in the Thracian sphere neglected by Athens and associated with Philip's gains.
Were you not deceived about Phocis, Thermopylae, the Thrace-ward districts, Doriscus, Serrium, Cersobleptes himself?
for these were the places that were disregarded immediately after the peace, and many of you perhaps do not even know of their existence.
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?