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and Portimata. Agaiii, on the mainland tliere is the colony 

 of Iadera\ distant from Pola IGO miles ; then, at a 

 distance of thirty miles, the island of Colentnm^, and of 

 eighteen, the mouth of the river Titus. 



CHAP. 26. (22.) — DALMATIA. 



Scardona, situate upon the river^, at a distance of twelve 

 miles from the sea, forms the boundary of Liburnia and the 

 oeginning of Dalmatia. Kext to this place comes the ancient 

 t:*ountry of the Autariatarcs and the fortress of Tariona, the 

 Promontory of Diomedes'*, or, as others call it, the peninsula 

 of Hyllis, 100 miles^ in circuit. Then comes Trngurium, a 

 place with the rights of Eoman citizens, and celebrated for 

 its marble, Sicum, a place to which Claudius, the emperor 

 lately deified, sent a colony of his veterans, and Salona^, a 

 colony, situate 112 miles from ladera. To this place resort 

 for legal purposes, having the laws dispensed according to 

 their di\'isions into decuries or tithings, the Dalmatje, form- 

 ing 342 decuries, the Deurici 22, the Ditiones 239, the 

 Mazaei 269, and the Sardiates 52. In this region are Bur- 

 num', Andetrium^, and Tribulium, fortresses ennobled by 

 the battles of the Eoman people. To the same jurisdiction 

 also belong the Issaei'^, the Colentini, the Separi, and the 



1 It was the capital of Liburnia. The city of Zara or Zara Vecchia 

 stands on its site. There are but Httle remains of the ancient city. 



2 Supposed to be the present Mortero. 



3 The Titus or Kerka. Scardona still retains its name. 

 ^ Now called the Cabo di San Nicolo. 



^ This measxirement would make it appear that the present Sabioncello 

 is meant, but that it ought to come below, after Narona. lie probably 

 means the quasi peninsula upon wliich the towii of Tragurium, now Trau 

 Vecchio, was situate ; but its circumference is liardly fifty miles. So, if 

 Sicum is the same as the modem Sebenico, it ought to have been men- 

 tioned previously to Tragurium. 



^ Spalatro, the retreat of Diocletian, was in the vicinity of Salona. Its 

 ancient name was Spolatum, and at tlie village of Dioclea near it, that 

 emperor was bom. On the ruins of the once important city of Salona, 

 rose the modem Spalato or SjDakitro. 



7 Its site is unkno\m, though D'Anville tliinks that it was probably 

 that of the modem Tain. 



^ Chssa is supposed to occupy its site. TribuHum is probably tho 

 modem Ughane. 



^ The people of the island of Issa, now Lissn, off the coast of Li* 



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