BOOK III. xwi. 150-152 



the entire circuit of the Italian and Illyrian Gulf as 

 1700 miles. This gulf, dehmited as we described ? 100. 

 it, contains two seas. in the first part the lonian ° 

 and more inland the Adriatic, called the Upper 

 Sea. 



There are no islands deserving mention in the isiandjs s. of 

 Ausonian Sea * besides those ah-eady specified, and is^^f ^2rt-" 

 only a lew in the lonian — those lying on the coast «"«• 

 of Calabria oti Brindisi and by their position forming 

 a harbour, and Diomede's Island "^ ofF the coast of 

 Apulia, marked by the monument of Diomede, 

 and another island <^ of the same name but by some 

 called Teutria. 



On the coast of Illyricum is a cluster of more than 

 1000 islands, the sea being of a shoaiy nature and 

 divided into a network of estuaries with narrow 

 channels. The notable islands are those off the 

 mouth of the Timavo, fed by hot springs * that rise 

 with the tide of the sea ; Cissa near the territory 

 of the Ilistri ; and PuUaria and those called by the 

 Greeks the Absyrtidcs, from Medea's brother 

 Absyrtus who was killed there. Islands near these 

 the Grecks have designated the Electrides, because 

 amber, the Grcek for which is electrum, was said to 

 be found there ; this is a vcry clear proof of Greek 

 unrcliability, seeing that it has never been ascer- 

 tained which of the islands they mean. Opposite 

 to the Zara are Lissa and the islands ah-eady 

 mentioned ; opposite the Liburni are several called § 140. 

 the Crateae, and an equal number called the Libur- 

 nicae and Celadussae ; opposite Surium Bavo and 

 Brattia, the latter celebrated for its goats, Issa with 

 the rights of Roman citizenship and Pharia, on wliich 

 there is a town. Twenty-five miles from Issa is the 



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