[2672] From Lydia and Syria.
[2673] Μάρισος ποταμός.
[2674] ὁ Δανούιος.
[2675] ὁ Ἴστρος. Stephen of Byzantium says that the Ister was called Δάνουβις, and that in very ancient times it was called Matoas. According to Ptolemy the lower part of the Danube was called Ister from Axiopolis, now Rassovat; according to Agathemerus, from Vienna.
[2676] Σαυρομάται.
[2677] The ancient Tyras.
[2678] Bessarabia and the southern part of Moldavia.
[2679] Peter the Great, at the beginning of the last century, incurred the risk of falling into the hands of the Turks almost on the same spot where Darius and Lysimachus had been in distress.
[2680] Now Piczina.
[2681] Ammianus Marcellinus, book xxii. chap. 8, gives the names of these mouths. He calls the Sacred Mouth by the name of the island Peuce.