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damnum which, on account of the ill-omened sound 

 of that name, has been renamed Dyrrachium" by 

 the Romans, the river Aous,^ called by some Aeas, 

 and the formcr Corinthian colony of Apollonia ' 

 4 miles distant from the sea, in the territory of which 

 is the famous Shrine of the Nyinphs, with the neigh- 

 bouring native tribes of the Amantes and Buhones. 

 Actually on the coast is the town of Ericho, founded 

 by the Colchians. Here begins Epirus, with the Kpims. 

 Acroceraunian mountains, at which we fixed '^ the 

 boundary of this Gulf of Europe. The distance 

 between Ericho and Cape Leuca*" in Italy is 80 

 miles. 



XXIV. Behind the Carni and lapudes, alon»; the ^^'' ^pp^ 

 course of the mighty Danube, the Raetians are 

 adjoined by the Norici ; their towns are Wolk-Markt, 

 Cilley, Lurnfelde, Innichen, Juvavum, Vienna, 

 Clausen, SoHeld. Adjoining the Norici is Lake Peiso,/ 

 and the Unoccupied Lands of the Boii, now however 

 inhabited by the people of Sarvar, a colony of his 

 late Majesty Claudius, and the town of Sopron 

 Julia. 



XX\'. Tlien come the acorn-producing lands of ^annonia. 

 the province of Pannonia, where the chain of the 

 Alps gradually becomes less formidable, and slopes 

 to the riglit and left hand with gentle contours 

 as it traverses the middle of Illyria from north to 

 south. The part looking towards the Adriatic is 

 called Dalmatia and Illyria mentioned above, while 5139 

 the part stretching northward is Pannonia, terminat- 

 ing in that direction at the Danube. In it are the 

 colonies of Aemona and Siscia. Famous navigable 

 rivers flowing into the Danube are the Drave from 

 Noricurn, a rather violent stream, and the Save 



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