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The Ister is of all the rivers with which we are acquainted the
mightiest. It never varies in height, but continues at the same level
summer and winter. Counting from the west it is the first of the
Scythian rivers, and the reason of its being the greatest is that it
receives the water of several tributaries. Now the tributaries which
swell its flood are the following: first, on the side of Scythia,
these five - the stream called by the Scythians Porata, and by the
Greeks Pyretus, the Tiarantus, the Ararus, the Naparis, and the
Ordessus. The first mentioned is a great stream, and is the
easternmost of the tributaries. The Tiarantus is of less volume, and
more to the west. The Ararus, Naparis, and Ordessus fall into the
Ister between these two. All the above mentioned are genuine
Scythian rivers, and go to swell the current of the Ister.
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