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brance is fast fading away. Eor in this region there were 
formerly the Labeatae, the Enderini\ the Sassei, the Grabsei^, 
properly called Illyrii, the Taulantii^ and the Pyraei. The 
Promontory of JSTymphseum on the sea-coast still retains its 
name'* ; and there is Lissum, a town enjoying the rights of 
Eoman citizens, at a distance from Epidaurum of 100 miles. 
(23.) At Lissum begins the province of Macedonia^, the 
nations of the Parthini^, and behind them the Dassaretse''. 
The mountains of Candavia^ are seventy-eight miles from 
Dyrrhachium. On the coast lies Denda, a town with the 
rights of Eoman citizens, the colony of Epidamnum^, which, 
on account of its inauspicious name, was by the Eomans 
called Dyrrhachium, the river Aous^^, by some called ^as, 
and Apollonia^\ formerly a colony of the Corinthians, at a 
distance of four miles from the sea, in the vicinity of which 
1 According to Hardouin, the modern Endero stands on the site of 
their capital. 
2 Grrabia, mentioned by Pouqueville, in his " Yojage de la Grrece," seems 
to retain the name of this tribe. 
3 Pouqueville is of opinion that they occupied the district now known 
as Musache. 
* Daiechamp thinks that the two words "Ketinet nomen" do not belong 
to the text, but have crept in from being the gloss of some more recent 
commentator. They certainly appear to be out of place. This promontory 
is now called Cabo Rodoni. ^ The modern Albania. 
6 Pouqueville is of opinion that they inhabited the district about the 
present village of Presa, seven leagues N.E. of Durazzo. 
7 From Ptolemy we learn that Lychnidus was their town ; the site of 
which, according to Pouqueville, is still pointed out at a spot about four 
leagues south of Ochrida, on the eastern bank of the Lake of Ochrida. 
s Now called El Bassan ; though Pouqueville says Tomoros or De 
Caulonias. Commencing in Epirus, they separated Illyricum from Mace- 
donia. See Lucan's Pharsaha, B. vi. 1. 331. 
9 The Romans are said to have changed its G-reek name Epidamnum, 
^from an idea that it was inauspicious, as implying " damnum" or " ruin." 
It has been asserted that they gave it the name of Durrhachium or Dyrrha- 
chium, from "durum," rugged, on accomit of the ruggedness of its 
locahty. This however cannot be the case, as the word, hke its pre- 
decessor, is of Greek origin. Its unfortunate name, " Epidamnus," is the 
subject of several puns and witticisms in that most amusing perhaps of all 
the plays of Plautus, the Mensechmi. It was of Corcyrsean origin, and 
after playing a distinguished part in the civil wars between Pompey and 
Cgesar, was granted by Augustus to his veteran troops. The modern 
Durazzo stands on its site. Now called the Yoioussa. 
The monastery of PoUina stands on its site. It was founded by 
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