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and Portunata. Again, on the mainland there is the colony 

 of Iadera\ distant from Pola 160 miles; then, at a 

 distance of thirty miles, the island of Colentum*, and of 

 eighteen, the mouth of the river Titus. 



CHA.P. 26. (22.) — DALMATIA. 



Scardona, situate upon the river', at a distance of twelve 

 miles from the sea, forms the boundary of Libumia and the 

 oeginning of Dalmatia. Next to this place comes the ancient 

 <;ountry of the Autariatares and the fortress of Tariona, the 

 Promontory of Diomedes*, or, as others call it, the peninsula 

 of Hyllis, 100 miles' in circuit. Then comes Tragurium, a 

 place with the rights of Roman citizens, and celebrated for 

 its marble, Sicum, a place to which Claudius, the emperor 

 lately deified, sent a colony of his veterans, and Salona", a 

 colouy, situate 112 miles from ladera.- To this place resort 

 for legal purposes, having the laws dispensed according to 

 their divisions into decuries or tithings, the Dalmatfe, form- 

 ing 342 decuries, the Deurici 22, the Ditiones 239, the 

 Mazaei 269, and the Sardiates 52. In this region are Bur- 

 num', Andetrium^, and Tribulium, fortresses ennobled by 

 the battles of the Roman people. To the same jurisdiction 

 also belong the Issaei^, the Colentini, the Separi, and the 



* It was the capital of Liburnia. The city of Zara or Zara Vecchia 

 stands on its site. There are but little remains of the ancient city. 



'^ Supposed to be the present Mortero. 



3 The Titus or Kerka. Scardona still retains its name. 



* Now caUed the Cabo di San Nicolo. 



° This measurement would make it appear that the present Sabioncello 

 is meant, but that it ought to come below, after Narona. He probably 

 means the quasi peninsula upon which the town of Tragiuium, now Trau 

 Yecchio, was situate ; but its circumference is hardly fifty miles. So, if 

 Sicum is the same as the modem Sebenico, it ought to have been men- 

 tioned previously to Tragurium. 



* Spalatro, the retreat of Diocletian, was in the vicinity of Salona. Its 

 ancient name was Spolatxmi, and at the village of Dioclea near it, that 

 emperor was bom. On the ruins of the once important city of Salona, 

 rose the modem Spalato or Spalatro. 



7 Its site is unknown, though D'AnviUe thinks that it was probably 

 that of the modem Tain. 



8 Clissa is supposed to occupy its site. Tribulium is probably the 

 modem UgUane. 



' The people of the island of Issa^ now Lissa, oflf the coast of Li- 



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