niester

Updated: July 31, 2026

On the banks of the Niester, the prudent Athanaric, more attentive to his own than to the general safety, had fixed the camp of the Visigoths; with the firm resolution of opposing the victorious Barbarians, whom he thought it less advisable to provoke.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2