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Deremistae in 30 ; Dindari in 33 ; Glinditiones in 44 ; Mel- 

 comani in 24 ; Naresii in 102 ; Scirtari in 72 ; Siculotae 

 in 24 ; and the Vardsei, who formerly wasted Italy, in not 

 more than twenty Decuries. Besides these, there held this 

 Tract, Oenei, Partheni, Hemasini, Arthitae, and Armistae. 

 From the River Naron 100 Miles, is the Colony Epidaurum. 

 Towns of Roman Citizens, Rhizinium, Ascrinium, Butua, 

 Olchiniuin, which hefore was called Colchinium, built by 

 the Colchi. The River Drilo, and the Town upon it, Scodra, 

 inhabited by Roman Citizens, eighteen Miles from the Sea ; 

 besides many other Towns of Greece, and strong Cities, out 

 of all remembrance. For in that Tract were the Labeatae, 

 Enderoduni 1 , Sassgei, Grabsei, and those who properly were 

 called Illyrii, and Taulantii, and Pyrgei. The Promontory 

 Nymphgeum, in the Coast, keepeth the name : also Lissum, 

 a Town of Roman Citizens, 100 Miles from Epidaurum. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 Macedonia. 



FROM Lissum is the Province of Macedonia : the Nations 

 there are the Partheni, and on their Back, the Dassaretes. 

 The Mountains of Candavia seventy-nine Miles from Dyr- 

 rhachium. But in the Borders, Denda, a Town of Roman 

 Citizens; also the Colony Epidamnum 2 , which, for that 

 inauspicious Name, was by the Romans called Dyrrhachium. 

 The River Aous, named of some ^Eas ; Apollonia, once a 

 Colony of the Corinthians, seven Miles from the Sea ; 

 in the Recesses of which is the famous Nymphaeum 3 . The 

 Foreigners inhabiting about it are the Amantes and Bu- 

 liones; but in the Borders, the Town Oricum, built by the 

 Colchi. Then beginneth Epirus, the Mountains Acroce- 



1 Now Endero, in Albania. 



2 Mela, ii. 3. The Romans changed the name Epidamnum, because 

 it seemed ominous to those ivho were going to their loss. It is now Durazzo. 

 Wern. Club. 



8 The crater Nymphaei was a hot spring in the territory of Apollonia, 

 and is described by Pliny, lib. ii. 110. Wern. Club. 



