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nuin\ the river Liquentia rising in the mountains of Opiter- 

 gium^, and a port with the same name, the cokmy of Con- 

 cordia^; the rivers and harbours of Komatinum"*, the greater 

 and less Tiliaventum^, the Anaxum®, into which the Varamus 

 flows, the Alsa^, and the Natiso with the Turrus, which flow 

 past the colony of Aquileia^ at a distance of fifteen miles 

 from the sea. This is the country of the Carni^, and ad- 

 joining to it is that of the lapydes, the river Timavus^*^, the 



1 Situate in a marsh or lagime on the river Sile. It became a Roman 

 colony after Pliny's time, xnider the Emperor Trajan. Its villas are de- 

 scribed by Martial as rivalling those of Baise. The Emperor Verus died 

 here a.d. 169. The modem village of Altino is a very impoverished 

 place. The Liquentia is now caUed the Livenza. 



2 Now called Oderzo, on the river Montegano, which flows mto the 

 Liquenza. The conduct of the people of this place, in the wars between 

 Pompey and Csesar, is mentioned by Lucan, in his Pharsalia, B. iv. 1. 462. 



3 From inscriptions we find that this place was called Colonia Julia 

 Concordia, from wliich it seems probable that it was one of the colonies 

 founded by Augustus to celebrate the restoration of peace. It rapidly 

 rose into importance, and is often mentioned during the later ages of the 

 Roman Empire, as one of the most important cities in this part of Italy. 

 It is now a poor village, with the same name, and no remains of antiquity 

 beyond a few inscriptions. 



^ The Romatinum is the modem Lemene. Pliny seems to iniply, 

 (though fi'om the uncertainty of the punctuation it is not clear,) that on 

 the Romatinum there was a port of that name. If so, it would probablv 

 occupy the site of the present Santa Margherita, at the mouth of the 

 Lemene. 



* The greater Tihaventum is the modem Tagliamento ; and Ilardouin 

 suggests that the smaller river of that name is the Lugugnana. 



^ This river is supposed to be the same with the modern SteUa, and 

 the Varamus the Revonchi, which joins the SteUa. 



7 Now called the Ansa. The Natiso is the modern Natisone, and 

 the Turrus the Torre ; the former flowed past Aquileia on the west, the 

 latter on the cast, in former times, but their course is probably now 

 changed, and they fall into the Isonzo, four miles from the city. 



** The capital of Venetia, and one of the most important cities of 

 Northern Italy. In the year a.d. 452 it was besieged by Attila, king 

 of the Hvms, taken by storm, and plundered and burnt to the gromid. 

 On its site, which is very unhealthy, is tlie modern village of Aquileia, 

 with about 1400 inhabitants. No ruins of any buildings are visible, but 

 the site abounds ^vith coins, shafts of columns, inscriptions, and other 

 remains of antiquity. 



^ Ptolemy states that Concorcha and Aquileia were situate in the di- 

 strict of the Cami. 



10 Stm called the Timavo. 



