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plint's katueal history. 
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extends as far as the river Titus. TheMentores, tlie Hymani^ 
the Enchelese, the Buni, and the people whom Callimachus 
calls the Peucetise, formerly formed part of it ; but now the 
whole in general are comprised under the one name of 
Illyricum. But few of the names of these nations are worthy 
of mention, or indeed very easy of pronunciation. To the 
jurisdiction of Scardona^ resort the lapydes and fourteen 
cities of the Liburni, of which it may not prove tedious if I 
mention the Lacinienses, the Stlupini, the Burhistse, and 
the Olbonenses. Belonging to the same jurisdiction there 
are, in the enjoyment of Italian rights, the Alutse^, the 
Manates^, from whom the Grulf takes its namiC, the Lopsi, 
and the Yarvarini ; the Assesiates, who are exempt from 
tribute ; and upon the islands, the Eertinates and the Cu- 
rict8e'\ 
Besides these, there are on the coast, after leaving !N"esac- 
tium, Alvona^, Manona, Tarsatica, Senia, Lopsica, Ortopula, 
Vegium, Argyruntum, Corinium'', ^nona, the city of 
Pasinum, and the river Tedanius, at which lapydia ter- 
minates. The islands of this Grulf, with their towns, besides 
those above mentioned, are Absyrtium^, Arba^, Crexa, Gissa, 
^ Hardomn thinks that " Ismeni " is the proper reading here ; but all 
the MSS. seem to be against him. 
2 Mentioned in the next Chapter. ^ Their town was Aluus or Aloiis. 
^ Their town was Flanona, which gave name to the Sinus Flanaticus 
or Grolfo di Quarnero. The chief town of the Lopsi was Lopsica, and 
of the Yarvarini, Yarvaria. 
5 The island of Fertina is supposed to have been the modern Berwitch 
or Parvich. Cmicta is now called Karek or Yeglia. The Illyrian snails 
mentioned by our author, B. ix. c. 56, are very numerous here. Caius 
Antonius, the brother of Marcus, acting under J ulius Csesar, was be- 
sieged here by Libo. See the interesting account in Lucan's Pharsaha, 
B. iv. 1. 402-464. 
^ The places on their sites are now called Albona, Fianona, Tersact or 
Tersat near Fiume, Segna, Lopsico, Ortopia, and Yeza. 
7 Now^ Carin. ^nona is now called Nona, and the Tedanius is the 
modern Zermagna. 
^ The whole of this group of islands were somictimes called the Absyr- 
tides, from Absyrtus, the brother of Medea, who according to tradition 
was slain there. See the last Chapter, p. 266., Ovid, however, in Ids 
" Tristia," states that this took place at Tomi, on the Pontus Euxinus or 
Black Sea, the place of his banishment. 
^ Said by D'Anville to be now called Arbe, and Crexa to be the mo- 
dern Cherso. G-issa is thought to have been the modern Pago. 
