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VISTONIDA LAKE (Lake) XANTHI
Bistonis (Bistonis limne; Lagos Buru), a great Thracian lake in the
country of the Bistones, from whom it derived its name. (Strab. i. p. 59, vii.
p. 333; Ptol. iii. 11. § 7; Scymn. Chius, 673; Plin. iv. 18.) The water of the
lake was brackish (whence it is called limnothalassa), and abounded in fish. (Aristot.
H. A. viii. 15.) The fourth part of its produce is said to have been granted by
the emperor Arcadius to the convent of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. The river Cossinites
emptied itself into the lake Bistonis (Aelian, H. A. xv. 25), which at one time
overflowed the neighbouring country and swept away several Thracians towns. (Strab.
i. p. 59.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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