26 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book VI. 



tribes with numerous names, and on the other, the Abzose, who 

 are also divided into an equal number. At the entrance, on 

 the right hand side, 26 dwell the Udini, a Scythian tribe, at the 

 very angle of the mouth. Then along 27 the coast there are the 

 Albani, the descendants of Jason, it is said ; that part of the sea 

 which lies in front of them, bears the name of ' Albanian/ This 

 nation, which lies along the Caucasian chain, comes down, as 

 we have previously stated, 28 as far as the river Cyrus, which 

 forms the boundary of Armenia and Iberia. Above the mari- 

 time coast of Albania and the nation of the Udini, the SarmataB, 

 the Utidorsi, and the Aroteres stretch along its shores, and in 

 their rear the Sauromatian Amazons, already spoken of. 29 



The rivers which run through Albania in their course to the 

 sea are the Casius 30 and the Albanus, 31 and then the Cambyses/ 2 

 which rises in the Caucasian mountains, and next to it the 

 Cyrus, rising in those of the Coraxici, as already men- 

 tioned. 33 Agrippa states that the whole of this coast, inac- 

 cessible from rocks of an immense height, is four hundred and 

 twenty-five miles in length, beginning from the river Casius. 

 After we pass the mouth of the Cyrus, it begins to be called 

 the ' Caspian Sea ;' the Caspii being a people who dwell upon 

 its shores. 



In this place it may be as well to correct an error into which 

 many persons have fallen, and even those who lately took part 

 with Corbulo in the Armenian war. The Gates of Iberia, 

 which we have mentioned 34 as the Caucasian, they have 

 spoken of as being called the ' Caspian,' and the coloured 

 plans which have been sent from those parts to Rome have 

 that name written upon them. The menaced expedition, 

 too, that was contemplated by the Emperor Nero, was said 

 to be designed to extend as far as the Caspian Gates, where- 

 25 On a promontory, on the right or eastern side of the mouth of the 

 river Volga. 



27 He here means the western shores of the Caspian, after leaving the 

 mouth of the Volga. 

 2b In c. 11. 



29 See the end of c. 14. 



30 The Caesius of Ptolemy, and the Koisou of modern times. 

 S1 Probably the modern river Samour. 



32 It is difficult to determine the exact locality of this river, but it would 

 eeem to have been near the Amardus, the modern Sefid-Eud. 



33 In c. 10. 



84 See the beginning of c. 12, and the Note, p. 21. 



