Halys River
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The Histories
River forming the eastern boundary of Croesus's domain
As time went on, Croesus subjugated almost all the nations west of the Halys;
Croesus was a Lydian by birth, son of Alyattes, and sovereign of all the nations west of the river Halys, which flows from the south between Syria and Paphlagonia and empties into the sea called Euxine.
When they had crossed the river Halys and entered Phrygia, they marched through that country to Celaenae, where rises the source of the river Maeander and of another river no smaller, which is called Cataractes;
Letters
River near Basil's see whose flooding, swollen from thaw and rain, causes the calamity described to Theodosius.
The thaw therefore being sudden, streams beyond all reckoning were set moving, mingling with the ever-flowing river, the Halys — itself swollen — and overpassing both tongue and eye.
Areopagiticus
A river used as the landward boundary of barbarian non-aggression in the old order.
Well then, the Hellenes felt such confidence in those who governed the city in those times that most of them of their own accord placed themselves under the power of Athens, while the barbarians were so far from meddling in the affairs of the Hellenes that they neither sailed their ships-of-war this side of the Phaselis nor marched their armies beyond the Halys River, refraining, on the contrary, from all aggression.
Panathenaicus
The river used as a boundary marker for restraining barbarian armies under Athenian supremacy.
In the time of our supremacy, the barbarians were prevented from marching with an army beyond the Halys river and from sailing with their ships of war this side of Phaselis, but under the hegemony of the Lacedaemonians not only did they gain the freedom to march and sail wherever they pleased, but they even became masters over many Hellenic states.
Panegyricus
A river in Asia Minor marking the extent of Agesilaus's successful campaign against Persian territory.
and that Agesilaus, with the help of the army of Cyrus, conquered almost all the territory this side of the Halys river.