place
Tigris
The great eastern river; the peoples of the sunrise who 'mix the warm Tigris with the reddening sea' came to Troy's aid.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.15 Tigris
The Mesopotamian river believed by the ancients to sink underground and re-emerge undiminished.
- Medea §720 the Tigris
The great river of Mesopotamia, a source of Medea's venoms.
- Natural Questions §3.26.4 the Tigris
Eastern river said likewise to vanish underground and re-emerge far off.
- The Trojan Women §1 Tigris
The great eastern river; the peoples of the sunrise who 'mix the warm Tigris with the reddening sea' came to help Troy.