ου (ἡ) Istros, v. à l’embouchure du Danube, ARSTT. Pol. 5, 5, 2.

ου (ὁ) :
      1 l’Ister (auj. le Danube) fl. HÉS. Th. 339 ; HDT. 1, 202, etc. ;
      2 Istros, historien contemporain de Ptolémée Évergète.

ὁ, Ister, Danube, Hes. Th. 339, etc. ; Ἴστρος, ἡ, Milesian colony at its mouth, St.Byz. ; also called Ἰστρία, ἡ, Arr. ap. eund., Ion. -ίη, Hdt. 2.33; — Adj. Ἰστριανός, Ion. Ἰστριηνός, ή, όν, of or from Istria, Hdt. 4.78, St.Byz., etc. ; Ἰστριανὰ πρόσωπα tattooed masks, like the faces of Scythian slaves, Ar. Fr. 88; Ἰστριαναὶ ζειραί Scythian tunics, prob. for ἰσπνιᾶται σειραί (glossed ἰστρηνίδες), Theognost. Can. 14; ἰστριανά, τά, covers for the baskets carried by κανηφόροι, Poll. 10.191; — fem. Ἰστριανίδες, of these garments and covers, Hsch. ; but also Ἰστριανίδων ὕφη S. Fr. 210.67.

Place, proper name

• island, the modern Giali, Dodecanese Greece. (TOPOS text)
• river, the modern Danube in central Europe. (TOPOS text)