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, since it flows through inhabited country, is known from many reports;
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.
Now I am going to describe the coast of the true Scythia from the Ister, and give its measurements.
and Scythia begins where a bay is formed in its coast, and the mouth of the Ister, facing southeast, is in that country.
for it is a ten days' journey from the Ister to the Borysthenes, and the same from the Borysthenes to the Maeetian lake;
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.