Borysthĕnes

, a large river of Scythia, falling into the Euxine sea, now called the Dnieper , and inferior to no other European river but the Danube, according to Hero dot us , bk. 4 , ch. 45 , . ――There was a city of the same name on the borders of the river, built by a colony of Miles i ans, 655 years before the christian era. It was also called Olba Salvia . Mela , bk. 2 , chs. 1 & 7.――A horse with which the emperor Adrian used to hunt. At his death he was honoured with a monument. Diodorus.