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From the country of the Agathyrsi comes down another river, the
Maris, which empties itself into the same; and from the heights of
Haemus descend with a northern course three mighty streams, the
Atlas, the Auras, and the Tibisis, and pour their waters into it.
Thrace gives it three tributaries, the Athrys, the Noes, and the
Artanes, which all pass through the country of the Crobyzian
Thracians. Another tributary is furnished by Paeonia, namely, the
Scius; this river, rising near Mount Rhodope, forces its way
through the chain of Haemus, and so reaches the Ister. From
Illyria comes another stream, the Angrus, which has a course from
south to north, and after watering the Triballian plain, falls into
the Brongus, which falls into the Ister. So the Ister is augmented
by these two streams, both considerable. Besides all these, the
Ister receives also the waters of the Carpis and the Alpis, two
rivers running in a northerly direction from the country above the
Umbrians. For the Ister flows through the whole extent of Europe,
rising in the country of the Celts (the most westerly of all the
nations of Europe, excepting the Cynetians), and thence running
across the continent till it reaches Scythia, whereof it washes the flanks.
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