Hister: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>Hister</b>: tri (less correctly [[Ister]]), m., = [[Ἴστρος]]>,<br /><b>I</b> the [[lower]] [[part]] of the [[Danube]] (the [[upper]] [[part]], Danubius).<br /><b>I</b> Prop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: Ponticum [[simul]] et Hadriaticum [[mare]] et Histrum amnem et [[Alpes]] conspici posse, Liv. 40, 21: [[turbidus]] et torquens flaventes [[Hister]] arenas, Verg. G. 3, 350: stat [[vetus]] [[urbs]], ripae vicina [[binominis]] [[Histri]], Ov. P. 1, 8, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp.: Histro fallacior, an epithet applied by Tertullian to [[Marcion]]; [[because]] the [[river]], on [[account]] of its [[strong]] eddies and [[many]] mouths, [[was]] [[dangerous]] to the [[navigator]], Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 1.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]., one [[who]] dwells on the [[Danube]]: collo triumphati proculcat [[Honorius]] [[Histri]], Claud. VI. Cons. Honor. 648: aut [[tibi]] [[captivo]] [[famulus]] mittetur ab Histro, Mart. 7, 79, 11.