264 V plint's natueal history. [Book III. 



Latovici, the Oseriates, the Varciam, and, in front of Mount 

 Claudius, the Scordisci, behind it the Taurisci. In the Sa\Tis 

 there is the island of Metubarris^ the greatest of all the 

 islands formed by rivers. Besides the above, there are 

 these other rivers worthy of mention : — the Colapis^, which 

 flows into the Sa\'us near Siscia, where, dividing its channel, 

 it forms the island which is called Segestica^ ; and the river 

 Bacuntius^, which flows into the Savus at the town of Sir- 

 mium, where we find the state of the Sirmienses and the 

 Amantini. Forty-five miles thence is Taurunum*, where 

 the Savus flows into the Danube ; above which spot the 

 Yaldanus'^ and the Urpanus, themselves far from ignoble 

 rivers, join that stream. 



CHAP. 29. (26.) — M(ESIA. 



Joining up to Pannonia is the province called Moesia'', which 

 runs, with the course of the Danube, as far as the Euxine. 

 It commences at the confluence^ previously mentioned. In it 

 are the Dardani, the Celegeri, the Triballi, the Timachi, the 

 Moesi,theThraciaus,and the Scythians who border on the Eux- 

 ine. The more famous among its rivers are the Margis^, which 

 rises in the territory of the Dardani, the Pingus, the Tima- 

 chus, the (Escus which rises in Mount Bhodope, and, rising 

 in Mount Hsemus, the Utus^°, the Asamus, and the Icterus. 



Draave. The nations mentioned here dwelt on the western and eastern 

 slopes of this range. 



^ Now known as Zagi'abia, ^ Now the Culpa. 



3 Dion Cassius, B. xix., says that the river Colapis or Colops flowed 

 past the walls of the town of Siscia, but that Tiberius Caesar caused a 

 trench to be dug round the towni, and so drew the river round it, leading 

 it back on the other side into its channel. He calls the island Segetica. 



** Now the Bossut. Sirmium occupied the site of the present Sirmich. 



^ The modern Tzeruinka, according to D'Anville and Brotier. 



^ Now the Walpo and the Sarroiez, according to Hardoiun ; or the 

 Bosna and the Verbas, according to Brotier and Mannert. 



^ Corresponding to the present Servia and Bulgaria. 



^ Of the Danube with the Saave or Savus just mentioned, 



^ Now the Morava, which runs through Servia into the Danube. 

 The Pingus is probably the Bek, which joms the Danube near G-radistic. 

 'J?he Timachus is the modern Timoch, and the (Escus is the Iscar in 

 B ulgaria. 



^^ Now called the Yid, the Osma, and the Jantra, rising in the 

 Balkan cham. 



