Pyretus
Πυρετός
Pyretus (Πυρετός), called by the Scythians Πόρατα, described by Herodotus (4.48) as a large river of Scythia, flowing in an easterly direction and falling into the Danube. The modern Pruth.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.