330 Flint's natueal histobt. [Book IV. 



while the Daci, whom they have driven as far as the river 

 Pathissus\ inhabit the mountain and forest ranges. On 

 leaving the river Marus^, whether it is that or the Duria', 

 that separates them from the Suevi and the kingdom of 

 Vannius'*, the Bastemse, and, after them, other tribes of 

 the Germans occupy the opposite sides*. Agrippa considers 

 the whole of thi§ region, from the Ister to the ocean, to be 

 2100 miles in length, and 4400 miles in breadth to the river 

 Vistula in the deserts® of Sannatia. The name " Scythian" 

 has extended, in every direction, even to the Sarmatae and the 

 Germans ; but this ancient appellation is now only given to 

 those who dwell beyond those nations, and live unknown to 

 nearly all the rest of the world. 



CHAP. 26. — SCTTHIA. 



Leaving the Ister, we come to the towns of Cremniscos^, 

 ^polium, the mountains of Macrocremnus, and the famous 

 river Tyra^, which gives name to a town on the spot where 

 Ophiusa is said formerly to have stood. The Tyragetae 

 inhabit a large island* situate in this river, which is distant 



plains between the Lower Theiss and the mountains of Transylvania, 

 from which places they had expelled the Dacians. 



1 The Lower Theiss. ^ Now the river Mark, Maros, or Morava. 



* The name of the two streams now known as the Dora Baltea and 

 Dora Riparia, both of which faU into the Po. This passage appears to 

 be in a mutilated state. 



* A chief of the Quadi ; who,'as we learn from Tacitus, was made king 

 of the Suevi by G-ermanicus, a.d. 19. Being afterwards expelled by his 

 nephews Vangio and Sido, he received from the emperor Claudius a 

 settlement in Pannonia. Tacitus gives the name of Suevia to the whole 

 of the east of Germany from the Danube to the Baltic. 



* According to Hardouin, PUny here speaks of the other side of the 

 mountainous district called Higher Hungary, facing the Danube and 

 extending from the river Theiss to the Morava. 



6 This, according to Sillig, is the real meaning of a desertis here, the 

 distance being meqsured from the Danube, and not between the Vistula 

 and the wilds of Sarmatia. The reading "four thousand" is probably 

 corrupt, but it seems more hkely than that of 404 miles, adopted by 

 Littre, in his French translation. 



7 Placed by Forbiger near Lake Burmasaka, or near Islama. 



8 The Dniester. The mountains of Macrocremnus, or the "Great 

 Heights," seem not to have been identified. 



9 According to Hardouin, the modem name of this island is Tandra. 



