Histories

as to the river that ran past the city, Etearchus guessed it to be the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile; and reason proves as much. For the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile flows from Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, right through the middle of it; and as I guess, reasoning about things unknown from visible signs, it rises proportionally as far away as does the Ister.[*](e)k tw=n i)/swn me/trwn is an obscure expression. What Hdt. appears to mean is, that as the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile (according to him) flows first from W. to E. and then turns northward, so the Danube (river), Europe Danube flows first from W. to E. and then (as he says) from N. to S.; and so the rivers in a manner correspond: one crosses Africa (continent)Africa, the other Europe (continent)Europe.)

For the Ister flows from the land of the Celts and the city of Pyrene through the very middle of Europe (continent)Europe; now the Celts live beyond the Pillars of Heracles, being neighbors of the Cynesii, who are the westernmost of all the peoples inhabiting Europe (continent)Europe.

The Ister, then, flows clean across Europe (continent)Europe and ends its course in the Black Sea [38,42] (sea)Euxine sea, at +Istra [14,45.25] (region (general)), Croatia, Europe Istria, which is inhabited by Milesian colonists.