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fortress of Pacinum^ famous for its wines, tlie Gulf of Ter- 
geste^, and the colony of tliat name, thirty-three miles from 
Aquileia. Six miles beyond this place lies the river Eormio^, 
189 miles distant from Bavenna, the ancient boundary'* of 
enlarged Italy, and now the frontier of Istria. That this 
region takes its name from the river Ister which flows from 
the Danube, also called the Ister, into the Adriatic opposite 
the mouth of the Padus, and that the sea which lies between 
them is rendered fresh by their waters running from opposite 
directions, has been erroneously asserted by many, and among 
them by Nepos even, vfho dwelt upon the banks of the Padus. 
Por it is the fact that no river which runs from the Danube 
discharges itself into the Adriatic. They have been misled, 
I think, by the circumstance that the ship Argo came down 
some river into the Adriatic sea, not far from Tergeste ; 
but what river that was is now unknown. The most careful 
writers say that the ship was carried across the Alps on 
men's shoulders, having passed along the Ister, then along 
the Savas, and so from Nauportus^, which place, lying be- 
tween JEmona^ and the Alps, from that circumstance derives 
its name. 
^ Castel Duino stands on its site. It will be found again mentioned 
in B. xiv. C. 8, for the excellence of its wines. 
2 Now the GrLilf of Trieste. Tergeste was previously an insignificant 
place, but made a Roman colony by Yespasian. The modern city of 
Trieste occupies its site. 
2 Most probably the modern Risano. Cluver and D'AnvUle are of 
that opinion, but Walckenaer thinks that it was a small stream near 
Muja Yecchia ; which seems however to be too near Trieste. 
^ In the time of Augustus, and before Istria was added as a province 
to Italy. 
^ He alludes to an old tradition that the A-r.gonauts sailed into the 
Ister or Danube, and then into the Save, till they came to the spot where 
the modern town of Upper Laybach stands, and that here they built 
Nauportus, after which they carried their ship across the mountains on 
men's shoulders into the Adriatic. He intends to suggest therefore that 
the place had its name from the Grreek vavs "a ship" and TropOjjLos "a 
passage." 
6 The modern town of Laybach stands on its site. It is situate on 
the Save, and on the road from Aquileia to Celeia. The Roman remains 
prove that the ancient city exceeded the modern one in magnitude. Ac- 
cording to tradition it was founded by the Argonauts. It sabsequently 
became a Roman colony, with the title of Julia Augusta. It is again 
mentioned in C. 28. 
