place
Hister
the Hister
also: Ister
The lower Danube, the frozen frontier river that in winter became a road for raiding tribes; Tomis lay near its mouths.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.2 the Hister
The lower Danube, whose freezing each winter let mounted barbarians cross on the ice into Roman territory near Tomis.
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.8 two-named Hister
The lower Danube, called Hister in its lower course and Danuvius above; the old town of Aegisos stood near its bank.
- Ibis §5 Hister
The lower Danube (the Ister), the cold frontier river of Ovid's exile.
- Sorrows §2.1 sevenfold Hister
The Danube ('the sevenfold Hister') at whose mouths Ovid is set, near the frozen frontier.