MARISUS
MARISUS (
Μάρισος, Strab. 7.304;
Μάρις,
Hdt. 4.49; Marisia, Jornand.
de Reb. Get. 5; Geogr. Rav.), a river of Dacia, which both Herodotus (
l.c.) and Strabo (
l.c.) describe as falling into the Danube; it is the same as the
Marosch, which falls into the
Theiss. (Heeren,
Asiat. Nations, vol. ii. p. 10, trans.; Schafarik,
Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 507.)
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