Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Places

    Rivers

    place · 8 works · 9 mentions · 12 anchored passages

    the Maeander · Cephisus · Marsyas · ever-rolling rivers · river · rivers · the Orgas · the river Jordan · this Marsyas · torrents of rivers

    spoken of as

    6 expressions

    River3 mentions

    Cyropaedia (Greek) · Adversus Judaeos (Latin) · Olympian (Greek)

    And once he saw another captain leading his company up from the river left about in single file and ordering when he thought it was proper, the second division and then the third and the fourth to advance to the front;
    chapter 2

    The Maeander“river”2 mentions

    Hellenica (Greek) · Letters to Lucilius (Latin)

    And when Dercylidas heard that they had crossed the Maeander again, he told Pharax that he was afraid Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus might overrun and pillage the land, unprotected as it was, and so crossed over himself to Ionia.
    chapter 3

    Marsyas“river”1 mention

    Orations (Greek)

    And of the rivers the greatest and most useful have their source from here — this Marsyas, flowing through the middle of your city, and the Orgas, and the Maeander, far the most divine and wise of all rivers, who, winding countless turns, traverses well-nigh the best of Asia.
    oration 35

    Orgas“river”1 mention

    Orations (Greek)

    And of the rivers the greatest and most useful have their source from here — this Marsyas, flowing through the middle of your city, and the Orgas, and the Maeander, far the most divine and wise of all rivers, who, winding countless turns, traverses well-nigh the best of Asia.
    oration 35

    the Cephisus“river”1 mention

    Olympian (Greek)

    You who have your home by the waters of Cephisus, who dwell in the town of beautiful horses:
    chapter 14

    the Jordan“river”1 mention

    Adversus Judaeos (Latin)

    For when the sons of the prophets were cutting wood with axes over the river Jordan, the iron leaped out and was sunk in the river;
    adversus judaeos

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    River named among those with source near the addressed city.

    And of the rivers the greatest and most useful have their source from here — this Marsyas, flowing through the middle of your city, and the Orgas, and the Maeander, far the most divine and wise of all rivers, who, winding countless turns, traverses well-nigh the best of Asia.
    oration 35

    Works and DaysClassical · Greek

    Rivers, treated as sacred boundaries requiring ritual prayer and washing before crossing, and as waters that must not be defiled.

    Never make water in the mouths of rivers which flow to the sea, nor yet in springs;
    works and days
    Whoever crosses a river with hands unwashed of wickedness, the gods are angry with him and bring trouble upon him afterwards.
    works and days
    Never cross the sweet-flowing water of ever-rolling rivers afoot until you have prayed, gazing into the soft flood, and washed your hands in the clear, lovely water.
    works and days

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    River by which the Graces are said to dwell, near Orchomenus.

    You who have your home by the waters of Cephisus, who dwell in the town of beautiful horses:
    chapter 14

    RigvedaAncient · Sanskrit

    Rivers whose torrents serve as a simile for the Maruts' swiftness.

    they are like fires, they who have their own lightning, who shoot forward like the torrents of rivers.
    mandala 5

    Letters to LuciliusImperial · Latin

    Winding river in Asia Minor, proverbial subject of poetry.

    Travel will give you acquaintance with nations, will show you new shapes of mountains, untrodden expanses of plains and valleys watered by perennial streams, the character of some river under observation, whether, like the Nile, it swells with its summer rising, or, like the Tigris, is snatched from sight and, after a course driven through hidden ways, is restored in its full magnitude, or, like t …
    letter 104

    Adversus JudaeosLate Antiquity · Latin

    The river where the sons of the prophets were cutting wood.

    For when the sons of the prophets were cutting wood with axes over the river Jordan, the iron leaped out and was sunk in the river;
    adversus judaeos

    CyropaediaClassical · Greek

    Location from which a captain leads his company during formation practice.

    And once he saw another captain leading his company up from the river left about in single file and ordering when he thought it was proper, the second division and then the third and the fourth to advance to the front;
    chapter 2

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    River in Ionia whose crossing and adjoining plain mark the movements of both armies before the standoff and truce.

    And when Dercylidas heard that they had crossed the Maeander again, he told Pharax that he was afraid Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus might overrun and pillage the land, unprotected as it was, and so crossed over himself to Ionia.
    chapter 3
    but as for the men from Priene and Achilleium, from the islands and the Ionian cities, some of them left their arms in the standing grain (for the grain was tall in the plain of the Maeander) and ran away, while all those who did stand showed clearly that they would not stand very long.
    chapter 3