^62 !PLrNT*S NATUEAL HISTOET. [Book III. 



the celebrated Nympliseum^ is inhabited by the barbarous 

 Amantes^ and Euliones. Upon the coast too is the town cf 

 Oricum^, founded by the Colchians. At this spot begins 

 Epirus, with the Acroceraunian'' mountains, by which we have 

 previously mentioned^ this Gulf of Europe as bounded. 

 Oricum is dis.tant from the Promontory of Salentinum in 

 Italy eighty® miles. 



CHAP. 27. (24.) — THE NOEICI. 



In the rear of the Cami and the lapydes, along the course 

 of the great river Ister^, the Ehaeti touch upon the No- 

 rici®: their towns are Virunum*, Celeia, Teurnia, Agun- 

 tum^", Vianiomina^\ Claudia^^, and Flavium Solvense*^. Ad- 

 joining to the Norici is Lake Peiso^"*, and the deserts of 



the Corinthians and Corcyrseans. There are scarcely any vestiges of it 

 remaining. * See further mention of this spot in B. ii. c. 110. 



2 Pouqueville states that the ruins of Amantia are to be seen near the 

 village of Nivitza, on the right bank of the river Suchista. The remains 

 of BuUis, the chief town of the Buhones, according to the same traveller, 

 are to be seen at a place called Gradista, four miles from the sea. 



3 The same writer states that Oricum was situate on the present Gulf 

 De lii Vallona or d' Avlona, and that its port was the place now called by 

 the Greeks Porto Raguseo, and by the Turks Liman Padisha. 



^ The " Heights of Thimder." They were so called from the frequent 

 thunderstorms with which they were visited. The range however 

 was more properly called the " Ceraunii Montes," and the promontory 

 terminating it " Acroceraunii " or " Acroceraunia," meaning "the end of 

 the Ceraunii." The range is now called the Mountains of Khimara, and 

 the promontory, Glossa, or in ItaUan, Linguetta, meaning " the Tongue." 



* In C. 15 of the present Book. 



* About 70 Enghsh mUes is the distance. ^ The Donau or Danube. 

 ^ Noricum corresponded to the greater part of tlie present Styria and 



Carinthia, and a part of Austria, Bavaria, and Salzburg. 



5 According to D'Anville the modem Wolk-Markt, on the river 

 Drau or Drave. Celeia is the modern Cilley in Camiola. Teurnia, 

 accortling to Mannert, is the Lumfelde, near the small town of Spital. 



10 According to Mannert it was situate near the modem town of 

 Innichen, near the sources of the Drave. 



11 Supposed to be the same as the Vindobona or Yindomona of 

 other authors, standing on the site of the modem city of Vienna. 



12 According to Cluver, it stood on the site of the modem Clausen in 

 Bavaria. 



13 Mannert says that this place was the same with the modem Solfeld, 

 near Klagenfurt. 



i< D'Anville and other writers think that this is the Neiisiedler See, not 



