Thermodon
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Anabasis
River described as three plethra wide and difficult to cross under enemy pressure.
First is the Thermodon, three plethra in width, which I fancy would be difficult to cross, especially with great numbers of the enemy in front and great numbers following behind;
And coursing along, [they saw Jason’s Cape, where the Argo is said to have come to anchor, and the mouths of the rivers, first the Thermodon, then the Iris, third the Halys, and after that the Parthenius;
The Histories
A river named in the prophecy of Bacis concerning the battle, which Herodotus clarifies flows between Tanagra and Glisas rather than being the Thermodon associated with the Amazons.
There in the battle when the day of his doom is upon him.
By Thermodon 's stream and the grass-grown banks of Asopus,
As for the river Thermodon, it flows between Tanagra and Glisas.