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CHAP. 23. (19.)— ISTBIA, ITS PEOPLE AlfD LOCALITY. 



Istria projects in the form of a peninsula. Some writers 

 have stated its length to be forty miles, and its circumference 

 125 ; and the same as to Libumia which adjoins it, and the 

 rianatic Gulf*, while others. make it 225"^; others again 

 make the circumference of Libumia 180 miles. Some per- 

 sons too extend lapydia, at the back of Istria, as far as the 

 Flanatic Gulf, a distance of 130 miles, thus making Libumia 

 but 150 miles. Tuditanus', who subdued the Istri, had this 

 inscription on his statue which was erected there : " From 

 Aquileia to the river Titus is a distance of 1000 stadia." 



The towns of Istria with the rights of Eoman citizens are 

 JEgida"*, Parentium, and the colony of Pola^ now Pietas Julia, 

 formerly founded by the Colchians, and distant from Ter- 

 geste 100 miles : after which we come to the town of Nesac- 

 tium^ and the river Arsia, now'^ the boundary of Italy. 

 The distance across from Ancona to Pola is 120 miles. In 



1 Now the Otolio di Quamaro. Libumia was separated from Istria 

 on the north-west by the river Arsia, and from Dabnatia on the south 

 by the river Titus or Kerka, corresponding to the western part of mo- 

 dem Croatia, and the northern part of modem Dalmatia. lapydia was 

 situate to the north of Dahnatia and east of Libumia, or tlie present 

 mihtary frontier of Croatia, between the rivers Kidpa and Korana to the 

 north and east, and the Velebich mountains to the south. Istria con- 

 sisted of the peninsula which still bears the same appellation. 



^ This passage, " while others make it 225," is omitted in many of 

 the MSS. and most of the editions. If it is retained, it is not impro- 

 bable that his meaning is, " and the circimiference of Libumia which joins 

 it, with the Flanatic Gulf, some make 225, while others make the com- 

 pass of Libumia to be 180 miles." It depends on- the pimctuation and 

 the force of " item," and the question whether the passage is not in a 

 corrupt state ; and it is not at all clear what his meaning really ia. 



3 He alludes to C. Scmpronius Tuditanus, Consul B.C. 129. He gained 

 his victory over the lapydes chiefly through the skill of his legatus, D. 

 Junius Brutus. He was a distinguished orator and historian. He was 

 the maternal grandfather of the orator Hortensius. 



* Tliis place is only mentioned by Pliny, but from an inscription found, 

 it appears that the emperor Justin II. conferred on it the title of Justi- 

 nopolis. It is thought that it occupied the site of the present town of 

 Capo d'Istria. — Parentium stood on the site of the present Parenzo. 



* It still retains its name. 



^ Supposed to have occupied the site of the modem Castel Nuovo, past 

 which the Arsia, now the Arsa, flows. 



7 Since Istria had been added to it by Augustus. 



