PY´RETUS(Πυρετός), called by the Scythians Πόρατα, described by Herodotus (Hdt. 4.48) as a large river of Scythia, flowing in an easterly direction and falling into the Danube. The modern Pruth.
Pyrētus, i, m., one of the Centaurs , Ov. M. 12, 449. ...
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