BIS
BIS (
Βίς, Isid. Char. p. 8), a small town placed by Isidorus in a district of Aria, called by him Anabon (
Ἀνάβων).
It seems, however, more likely that it is a place at the confluence of the Arkand-Ab and the Helmend, now called
Bost. Isidorus (
l.c.) speaks of a place called
Β¨ύτ in this district, which is probably the same as he had previously called
Βίς; and Pliny (
6.23) says of the Erymanthus or
Helsnend, “Erymanthus praefluens Parabesten Arachosiorum,” a mistake, doubtless, of his transcriber (i. e.
Παρ᾽ Ἀβήστρην for
Παρὰ Βήστην).
This is rendered more likely by our finding in the Tab. Peuting. Bestia, and in Geo. Rav. (p. 39) Bestigia. (Wilson,
Ariana, p. 158.)
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