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atid Portunata. Again, on the mainland there is the colony 
of Iadera\ distant from Pola 160 miles; then, at a 
distance of thirty miles, the island of Colentum^, and of 
eighteen, the mouth of the river Titus. 
CHAP. 26. (22.) — DALMATIA. 
Scar dona, situate upon the river ^, at a distance of twelve 
miles from the sea, forms the boundary of Liburnia and the 
oeginning of Dalmatia. JSText to this place comes the ancient 
country of the Autariatares and the fortress of Tariona, the 
Promontory of Diomedes"*, or, as others call it, the peninsula 
of Hyllis, 100 miles ^ in circuit. Then comes Tragurium, a 
place with the rights of Eoman citizens, and celebrated for 
its marble. Si cum, a place to which Claudius, the emperor 
lately deified, sent a colony of his veterans, and Salona^, a 
colony, situate 112 miles from ladera. To this place resort 
for legal purposes, having the laws dispensed according to 
their divisions into decuries or tithings, the Dalmatae, form- 
ing 342 decuries, the Deurici 22, the Ditiones 239, the 
Mazsei 269, and the Sardiates 52. In this region are Bur- 
num'', Andetrium^, and Tribulium, fortresses ennobled by 
the battles of the Soman people. To the same jurisdiction 
also belong the Isssei^, the Colentini, the Separi, and the 
^ It was the capital of Liburnia. The city of Zara or Zara Yecchia 
stands on its site. There are but httle remains of the ancient citv. 
2 Supposed to be the present Mortero. 
3 The Titus or Kerka. Scardona still retains its name. 
^ Now called the Cabo di San IS^icolo. 
* This measurement would make it appear that the present Sabioncello 
is meant, but that it ought to come below, after Narona. He probably 
means the quasi peninsula upon which the town of Tragm-ium, now Trau 
Yecchio, was situate ; but its circumference is hardly fifty miles. So, if 
Sicum is the same as the modern Sebenico, it ought to have been men- 
tioned previously to Tragurium. 
^ Spalatro, the retreat of Diocletian, was in the vicinity of Salona. Its 
ancient name was Spolatum, and at the village of Dioclea near it, that 
emperor was born. On the ruins of the once important city of Salona, 
rose the modern Spalato or Spalatro. 
7 Its site is unknown, though D'Anville thinks that it was probably 
that of the modern Tain. 
^ Chssa is supposed to occupy its site. TribuHum is probably the 
modem Ughane. 
^ The people of the island of Issa, now Lissa, off the coast of Li- 
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