Ister
place · 2 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Danube · the Ister river · the barbarians beyond the Ister · the river Ister
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Ister3 mentions
The Histories (Greek) · Letters (Greek)
The Ister, then, flows clean across Europe and ends its course in the Euxine sea, at Istria, which is inhabited by Milesian colonists.
in the texts
The Histories
The Danube, bridged by the Ionian fleet for Darius's army and used repeatedly as the geographic reference point for the borders of Scythia.
and Scythia begins where a bay is formed in its coast, and the mouth of the Ister, facing southeast, is in that country.
When Darius and the land army with him had come to the Ister, and all had crossed, he had the Ionians break the bridge and follow him in his march across the mainland, together with the men of the fleet.
So the fleet passed between the Dark Rocks and sailed straight for the Ister and, after a two days' voyage up the river from the sea, set about bridging the narrow channel of the river where its various mouths separate.
Letters
River beyond which barbarian peoples lived, one of whom became a martyr.
Yet our souls returned to that ancient blessedness, when a letter came from far away, in flower with the beauty of love, and a martyr came to us from the barbarians beyond the Ister, proclaiming through himself the exactness of the faith that is followed there.