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brance is fast fading away. For in this region there were 

 formerly the Labeatse, the Enderini\ the Sasaei, the Grabaei*, 

 properly called Illyrii, the Taulantii'', and the Pyraei. The 

 rromontory of Nymphaeum on the sea-coast still retains its 

 name* ; and there is Lissum, a town enjoying the rights of 

 Boman citizens, at a distance from Epidaurum of 100 miles. 

 (23.) At Lissum begins the province of Macedonia', the 

 nations of the Parthiiii", and behind them the Dassaretae'. 

 The mountains of Candavia* are seventy-eight miles from 

 Dyrrhachium. On the coast lies Den da, a town i?vith the 

 rights of Eoman citizens, the colony of Epidamnum", which, 

 on accoimt of its inauspicious name, was by the Romans 

 called Dyrrhachium, the river A6us'°, by some called JEas, 

 and Apollonia", formerly a colony of the Corinthians, at a 

 distance of four miles from the sea, in the vicinity of which 



* According to Hardouin, the modem Endero stands on the site of 

 their capital. 



* Grabia, mentioned by Pouqueville, in his " Voyage de la Gr^ce," seems 

 to retain the name of tliis tribe. 



* Pouqueville is of opinion that they occupied the district now known 

 as Musache. 



* Dalechamp thinks that the two words " Retinet nomen" do not belong 

 to the text, but have crept in from being the gloss of some more recent 

 commentator. They certainly appear to be out of place. This promontory 

 is now called Cabo Rodoni. ' The modem Albania. 



' Pouqueville is of opinion that they inhabited the district about the 

 present village of Presa, seven leagues N.E. of Durazzo. 



7 From Ptolemy we learn that Lychnidus was their town ; the site of 

 wliich, according to Pouqueville, is still pointed out at a spot about four 

 leagues south of Ochrida, on the eastern bank of the Lake of Ochrida. 



8 Now called El Bassan ; though Pouqueville says Tomoros or De 

 Caulonias. Commencing in Epirus, they separated Ulyricum from Mace- 

 donia. See Lucan's Pharsalia, B. vi. 1. 331. 



' The Romans are said to have changed its Greek name Epidamnum, 

 from an idea that it was inauspicious, as implying " damnum" or " ruin." 

 It has been asserted that they gave it the name of Durrhaohium orDyrrha- 

 chiiun, from "durum," rugged, on account of the ruggedness of its 

 locahty. This however cannot be the case, as the word, like its pre- 

 decessor, is of Greek origin. Its xmfortunate name, " Epidamnus," is the 

 subject of several puns and witticisms in that most amusing perhaps of all 

 the plays of Plautus, the Mensechnii. It was of Corcyrsean origin, and 

 after playing a distinguished part in the civil wars between. Pompey and 

 Caesar, was granted by Augustus to his veteran troops. The modem 

 Piu^zzo stands on its site. ^^ Now called the Yoioussa. 



" The monastery of PoUina stands on its site. It was founded by 



