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  • Their principall floudes are Ganges, Indus, and Hypanis.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • Exampaios, and in the Hellenic tongue Hierai Hodoi. 608 Now the Tyras and the Hypanis approach one another in their windings in the land of the Alazonians, but after this each turns off and widens the space between them as they flow.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • The third river is the Hypanis, which starts from Scythia and flows from a great lake round which feed white wild horses; and this lake is rightly called “Mother of Hypanis.”

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • These races are along the river Hypanis to the West of the Borysthenes; but after crossing the Borysthenes, first from the sea-coast is Hylaia, and beyond this as one goes up the river dwell agricultural Scythians, whom the Hellenes who live upon the river Hypanis call

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • When the Borysthenes comes near the sea in its course, the Hypanis mingles with it, running out into the same marsh; 612 and the space between these two rivers, which is as it were a beak of land,613 is called the point of Hippoles, and in it is placed a temple of the Mother,614 and opposite the temple upon the river

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • On the river Hypanis in the Cimmerian Bosphorus, about the time of the summer solstice, there are brought down towards the sea by the stream what look like little sacks rather bigger than grapes, out of which at their bursting issues a winged quadruped.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • They heard the names of other rivers — Rha, Udon, Borysthenes, Hypanis — and tales about the vast sea to the east called Hyrcanus or Caspium.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • He is already the complete master of the eastern Euxine from Olbia on the Hypanis to Colchis on the Phasis.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Sandarach, in many places, but the best is mined in Pontus close by the river Hypanis.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • There are also springs which issue exceedingly bitter, owing to a bitter juice in the soil, such as the river Hypanis in Pontus.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

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