Hebrus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Agrianes · Contadesdus · Tearus · heights of Hebrus
in the texts
Heracles
River in Thrace crossed by Heracles during his labor to tame the man-eating mares of Diomedes.
then crossing the heights of Hebrus that flow with silver, he still toiled on for the tyrant of Mycenae.
The Histories
A Thracian river famed for its thirty-eight healing springs, where Darius camped for three days and erected an inscribed pillar praising the river and himself.
This Tearus is a tributary of the Contadesdus river, and that of the Agrianes, and that of the Hebrus, which empties into the sea near the city of Aenus.
The Tearus is said by those living on it to be the best river of all for purposes of healing, especially for healing mange in men and horses.
“From the headwaters of the river Tearus flows the best and finest water of all;