262 plint's natueal histoet. [Book III. 



tlie celebrated Nympliseum^ is inhabited by tbe barbarous 

 Amantes^ and Bidiones. Upon the coast too is the town cf 

 Oricum^, founded by the Colchians. At this spot begins 

 Epirus, with the Acroceraimian"* mountains, by which we have 

 previously mentioned^ this Gulf of Europe as bounded. 

 Oricum is distant from the Promontory of Salentinum in 

 Italy eighty^ miles. 



CHAP. 27. (24.) THE NOEICI. 



In the rear of the Carni and the lapydes, along the coiu*se 

 of the great river Ister^, the Bhseti touch upon the No- 

 rici^: their towns are Yirunum^, Celeia, Teurnia, Agun- 

 tum^°, A^ianiomina^\ Claudia ^^, and Elavium Solvense^^. Ad- 

 joining to the Norici is Lake Peiso^'', and the deserts of 



the Corinthians and Corcyrseans. There are scarcely any vestiges of it 

 remaining. ^ See farther mention of tliis spot in B. ii. c. 110. 



2 Pouqueville states that the ruins of Amantia are to be seen near the 

 village of Nivitza, on the right bank of the river Suchista. The remains 

 of Bulhs, the chief town of the Buhones, according to the same traveUer, 

 are to be seen at a place called Gradista, four miles from the sea. 



3 The same writer states that Oricum was situate on the present Gulf 

 De la Yallona or d' Avlona, and that its port was the place now called by 

 the Greeks Porto Raguseo, and by the Turks Liman Padisha. 



"* The " Heights of Thunder." They were so called from the frequent 

 thunderstorms with wliich they were visited. The range however 

 was more properly called the " Ceraunii Montes," and the j^romontory 

 terminating it " Acroceraunii " or " Acroceraunia," meaning "the end of 

 the Ceraunii." The range is now called the Mountains of Klihnara, and 

 the promontory, Glossa, or in Itahan, Linguetta, meaning " the Tongue." 



* In C. 15 of the present Book. 

 ~ ^ About 70 Enghsh miles is the distance. ^ The Donau or Danube. 



^ Noricum corresponded to the greater part of the present Styria and 

 Carinthia, and a part of Austria, Bavaria, and Salzburg. 



' According to D'AnviUe the modern Wolk-Markt, on the river 

 Drau or Drave. Celeia is the modern Cilley in Carniola. Teuniia, 

 accordhig to Mannert, is the Lurnfelde, near the small town of Spital. 



^0 According to Mannert it was situate near the modem town of 

 Innichen, near the som-ces of the Drave. 



^^ Supposed to be the same as the Ymdobona or Yindomona of 

 other authors, standing on the site of the modern city of Yienna. 



12 According to Cluver, it stood on the site of the modem Clausen in 

 Bavana. 



13 IMannert says that this place was the same with the modern Solfeld, 

 near Klagenfurt. 



1* D'Anvilie and other writers think that this is the Neusiedler See, not 



