264 PLI:ST's NATFEAL HISTOET, [Book III. 



Latovici, the Oseriates, the Varciam, and, in front of Mount 

 Claudius, the Scordisci, behind it the Taurisci. In the Savus 

 there is the island of Metubarris^ the greatest of aU the 

 islands formed by rivers. Besides the above, there are 

 these other rivers worthy of mention : — the Colapis^, which 

 flows into the Savus near Siscia, where, dividing its channel, 

 it forms the island which is called Segestica^ ; and the river 

 Bacuntius'', which flows into the Savus at the to\\Ti of Sir- 

 mium, where we find the state of the Sirmienses and the 

 Amantini. Forty-five miles thence is Taurunum^, where 

 the Savus flows into the Danube; above which spot the 

 Valdanus® and the Urpanus, themselves far from ignoble 

 rivers, join that stream. 



CHAP. 29. (26.) — MffiSIA. 



Joining up to Pannonia is the province called Moesia^, which 

 runs, with the course of the Danube, as far as the Euxine. 

 It commences at the confluence^ previously mentioned. In it 

 are the Dardani, the Celegeri, the Triballi, the Timachi, the 

 Moesi,theThracians,and theScythians who border on theEui- 

 ine. The more famous among its rivers are the Margis', which 

 rises in the territory of the Dardani, the Pingus, the Tima- 

 chus, the (Escus which rises in Mount Ehodope, and, rising 

 in Mount Hsemus, the Utus^", the Asamus, and the Icterus. 



Draave. The nations mentioned here dwelt on the western and eastern 

 slopes of this range. 



1 Now known as Zagrabia. 2 j^ow the Culpa. 



3 Dion Cassius, B. xix., says that the river Colapis or Colops flowed 

 past the walls of the town of Siscia, but that Tiberius Csesar caused a 

 trench to be dvig round the town, and so drew the river round it, leading 

 it back on the other side into its channel. He calls the island Segetica. 



^ Now the Bossut. Sirmium occupied the site of the present Sirmich. 



5 The modem Tzeruinka, according to D'Anville and Brotier. 



^ Now the Walpo and the Sarroiez, according to Hardouin ; or the 

 Bosna and the Verbas, according to Brotier and Mannert. 



7 Corresponding to the present Servia and Bulgaria. 



^ Of the Danube with the Saave or Savus just mentioned. 



^ Now the Morava, which runs through Servia. into the Danube. 

 The Pingus is probably the Bek, which joins the Danube near Gradistic. 

 The Timachus is the modem Timoch, and the (Escus is the Iscar in 

 Bulgaria. 



^^ Now called the Yid, the Osma, and the Jantra, rising in the 

 Balkan chain. 



