258 plint's natueal history. [Book III. 



extends as far as the river Titus. TheMentores, tlie Hymani^ 

 the Encheleae, the Buni, and the people whom Callimachus 

 calls the Peucetise, formerly formed part of it ; but now the 

 whole in general are comprised under the one name of 

 lUyricum. But few of the names of these nations are worthy 

 of mention, or indeed very easy of pronunciation. To the 

 jurisdiction of Scardona^ resort the lapydes and fourteen 

 cities of the Liburni, of which it may not prove tedious if I 

 mention the Lacinienses, the Stlupini, the Bumistae, and 

 the Olbonenses. Belonging to the same jurisdiction there 

 are, in the enjoyment of Italian rights, the Aluta?^, the 

 rianates^, from whom the Gulf takes its name, the Lopsi, 

 and the Varvarini; the Assesiates, who are exempt from 

 tribute ; and upon the islands, the Fertinates and the Cu- 

 rictse^. 



Besides these, there are on the coast, after leaving Nesac- 

 tium, Alvona®, Flanona, Tarsatica, Senia, Lopsica, Ortopula, 

 Vegium, Argyruntum, Corinium'', ^nona, the city of 

 Pasinum, and the river Tedanius, at which lapydia ter- 

 minates. The islands of this Gulf, with their towns, besides 

 those above mentioned, are Absyrtium^, Arba**, Crexa, Gissa, 



^ Hnrdouin thinks that " Ismeni " is the proper reading here j but all 

 the MSS. seem to be against him. 



2 Mentioned in the next Chapter. ' Their town was Aluus or Aloiia. 



* Their town was Flanona, which gave name to the Sinus Flanaticus 

 or Golfo di Quamero. The chief town of the Lopsi was Lopsica, and 

 of the Varvarini, Varvaria. 



s The island of Fertina is supposed to have been the modem Berwitch 

 or Parvich. Curicta is now called Karek or Veglia. The Illyrian snails 

 mentioned by our author, B. ix. c. 56, are very numerous here. Caius 

 Antonius, the brother of Marcus, actmg under Julius Caesar, was be- 

 sieged here by Libo. See the interesting account in Lucan's Pharsalia, 

 B. iv. 1. 402-464. 



^ The places on their sites are now called Albona, Fianona, Tersact or 

 Tersat near Fiume, Segna, Lopsico, Ortopia, and Veza. 



7 Now Carin. JEnona is now called Nona, and the Tedanius is the 

 modem Zermagna. 



8 The whole of this group of islands were sometimes called the Absyr- 

 tides, from Absyrtus, the brother of Medea, who according to tradition 

 was slain there. See the last Chapter, p. 266.. Ovid, however, in his 

 " Tristia," states that this took place at Tomi, on the Pontus Euxinus or 

 Black Sea, the place of his banishment. 



^ Said by D'AnviUe to be now called Arbe, and Crexa to be the mo- 

 dem Cherso. Grissa is thought to liave been the modem Pago. 



