Visurgis
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Visurgin Proper-name noun: masculine ablative singular, Proper-name noun: masculine accusative plural, Proper-name noun: masculine nominative singular, Proper-name noun: masculine dative singular, Proper-name noun: masculine genitive singular of Visurgis
- a river in Northern Germany, the mod. Weser, Mel. 3, 3, 3; Plin. 4, 14, 28, § 100; Tac. A. 2, 9; 2, 11; 2, 16 sq.; Sid. Carm. 23, 244.
VISURGIS (Οὐίσουργις, Βίσουργις, Οὐίσουργος, or Οὐισσούγριος: Weser), one of the principal rivers in north-western Germany, which was tolerably well known to the Romans, since during their wars in Germany they often advanced as far as its banks, and at one time even crossed it; but they seem to have been unacquainted with its southern course, and with its real origin; for it is formed by the confluence of the Werra and the Fulda, while Ptolemy (Ptol. 2.11.1) imagined that it had its sources in Mons Melibocus. Marcianus (p. 51) states that its length amounted to from 1600 to 1780 stadia. The Visurgis flowed into the German Ocean in the country of the Chauci. (Comp. Pomp. Mela, 3.4; Plin. Nat. 4.27; Tac. Ann. 1.70, 2.9; Vellei. 2.105; Sidon. Apoll. Carm. 23.243; Strab. 7. p. 291; Dio Cass., 4.1, 2, 8, 56.18.)
[L.S]Now the Weser; an important river of Germany, falling into the German Ocean.