Histories

Its course is from the north, and it is known as far as the Gerrhan land; that is, for forty days' voyage; beyond that, no one can say through what nations it flows; but it is plain that it flows through desolate country to the land of the farming Scythians, who live beside it for a ten days' voyage.

This is the only river, besides the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile, whose source I cannot identify; nor, I think, can any Greek. When the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes comes near the sea, the Hypanis mingles with it, running into the same marsh;

the land between these rivers, where the land projects like a ship's beak, is called Hippolaus' promontory; a temple of Demeter stands there. The settlement of the Borystheneïtae is beyond the temple, on the Hypanis.

This is the produce of these rivers, and after these there is a fifth river called Panticapas; this also flows from the north out of a lake, and the land between it and the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes is inhabited by the farming Scythians; it flows into the woodland country, after passing which it mingles with the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes.