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River 
Marisus. 
repair, for the light of antient geography, 
begins to fail us in Dacia : but he has left 
an allusion to this river. He mentions it^ 
under the name of Marisus, as flowing through 
the territories of the Get^, and falling into the 
Danube; omitting, however,to notice its con- 
fluence with the TiBiscus, now called Theysse, 
or Teisse, which takes place before its junction 
with the Danube, at Segedin". The Maros is 
also mentioned, by Herodotus, as flowing out of 
the country of the Agathyrsi, and nearly 
according to its present appellation^ : he calls 
it Maris. We find it denominated Marus 
by Tacitus*. The same river is the Marisia 
of Jornandes, and the Marous of other writers*. 
In the portion of his work now cited, Straho 
has also mentioned a remarkable distinction 
(1) 'Vil Ti di ctiiTuy MAPI202 vorafjt.l; tig tov AAXOTBION, k. r, >.. 
Strabon. Geog. lib. vii. p. 439. ed. Oxon. 
(2) D'^lnviUe writes ilie name of this town Segedin. In the Maf» 
of Hungary, published at F'enice, by Santini, from Robert, it is 
written Zegedin. 
(3) 'E« S£'Aya^y59'<av MAPir nrcrxfcei piuv ffuy./a.i'ff'yirai 'rcu"la''7pu. Herodot. 
Hist. lib. iv. cap. 10 p. 237. eA- Gronov. L. £nt. 17\6. 
(4) " Barhari utruiiitine cooiitati ne quietas provincias immixti 
turbarent, Dnmibium ultra inter flunuua Maru.m et Cusum locantur, 
•iato Res^e Vimnio geutis Quadorum." Tacit. Anna), lib. ii. cap. 63. 
torn. I. p. 256. ed. Gronnv. Var. Amst. 1672. 
(5) Vide Animadv. £?;)S. in Tmit. Ann^\. (loc. citat.) Not. 1. - Be- 
tinet nomeii hodie, c( incolis appellatia- Maros." 
