ANTIQUITIES. 
cessary to prepare a clear survey of 
the remainder. 
Of the Lilyrians aud Pannonians, 
From the same. 
The Illyrians are probably of the 
same stem with the Thracians; at 
least, the elder writers, who had 
visited the country or conyersed 
with natives of it, confound them 
together: whereas the Kelts are 
always contradistinguished from 
them, even when resident among 
them. Of all the European na- 
tions, the Illyrians and Thracians 
only had the practice of tattooing 
their bodies. Their original jan- 
uage is probably preserved in the 
Fisrouc diale&t of the present 
times: but in Illyria itself, the 
Slavonian tribes have wholly ex. 
tinguished every other tongue, 
The eastern continuation of the 
Alps comprised the ancient dwel- 
lings of the Illyrian nations, From 
the Julian Alps, the high lands 
spread uninterrupted between the 
Save and the Adriatic to the 
Hemus and to Macedon. Of this 
mountainous district, the Ilyrians 
oceupicd the southern declivity, 
together with the sea-coast, fiom 
about Aguilcia to the modern 
Epirus. 
On these very mountains, down 
the southern declivity towards the 
Save, svere tlic oldest seais of the 
Pzonians, as the Greeks styled 
them; of the Pannonians, as the 
Latins called them. hey ex- 
tended from the Ukraine to Mace- 
donia. ‘Lhus Strabo specifies their 
station, and he flourished while 
‘Augustus and Liberius were in con- 
Fut with them; his account is 
confirmed by Velicius Paterculus, 
and Appian, from the commenta- 
fre of Augustus. 
Strabo does not in any thing dig. 
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[465 
tinguish the Pzonians from the 
other Illyrians. Herodotus, who 
knew them experimentally, does 
not indeed expressly reckon them 
as a branch of the Thracian stem, 
because he says that the quantity 
of single tribes is too great’ to be 
enumerated: but he knows only of 
Thracians on the south side of the 
Danube; he describes them as cos. 
vering many distri¢ts, and places. 
among them the Pzonians by the 
Strymon and the Drino, without 
distinguishing them from Thra. 
cians ;—and as he deduces the 
Pzonians from the Teucri of Asia, 
he farther corroborates the opinion 
of their being of Thracian race, 
whose Asiatic origin is certain. 
If the Thracians be one race with 
the Pzonians and Lllyrians, the 
Kelts must not be derived from the 
Thracians ; for the Romans con- 
stantly discriminate between the 
language and warfare of Kelts and 
Illyrians. Thucydides also notices 
the Pzonians in this site. 
Perhaps, in elder periods, they 
had extended their seats farther 
north unto the Danube, and were 
compressed in the southern moun- 
tains by the Kelts; who, as I shall 
shew, overflowed at one period the 
whole south of Hungary. Certain 
it is that the Romans found towns 
of the Pasnonians only about the 
Save :—-but, when the Kelts were 
repuiscd, and the plains emptied, 
the Panooniays began to migrate 
from their mountains into the chame 
paign, and to extend their habita. 
tions to the Danube, At this pe- 
ried, probably under Claudius, 
Pannonia obtained its constitution 
and boundary as ‘a Roman pro- 
vinee ; although fortresses had long 
before been raised along the river. 
The original distri of the Panno- 
nians materially differs, it should 
Hh be 
