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[4] ἄλλως τε ἐν μὲν τῷ τότε οἱ ποταμοὶ πάντες οἱ Ἰνδικοὶ πολλοῦ τε ὕδατος καὶ θολεροῦ ἔρρεον καὶ ὀξέος τοῦ ῥεύματος: ἦν γὰρ ὥρα ἔτους ᾗ μετὰ τροπὰς μάλιστα τὰς ἐν θέρει τρέπεται ὁ ἥλιος: ταύτῃ δὲ τῇ ὥρᾳ ὕδατά τε ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀθρόα τε καταφέρεται ἐς τὴν γῆν τὴν Ἰνδικὴν καὶ αἱ χιόνες αἱ τοῦ Καυκάσου, ἔνθενπερ τῶν πολλῶν ποταμῶν αἱ πηγαί εἰσι, κατατηκόμεναι αὔξουσιν αὐτοῖς τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ μέγα: χειμῶνος δὲ ἔμπαλιν ἴσχουσιν ὀλίγοι τε γίγνονται καὶ καθαροὶ ἰδεῖν καὶ ἔστιν ὅπου περάσιμοι, πλήν γε δὴ τοῦ Ἰνδοῦ καὶ Γάγγου καὶ τυχὸν καὶ ἄλλου του: ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γε Ὑδάσπης περατὸς γίνεται.
Flavii Arriani Anabasis Alexandri. Arrian. A.G. Roos. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1907. Keyboarding.
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- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 17.87
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- LSJ, περ-άσιμος
- LSJ, ῥέω
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