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tlie celebrated Nymphseum^ is inliabited by the barbarous 
Amantes^ and Buliones. Upon the coast too is the town of 
Oricum^, founded by the Colchians. At this spot begins 
Epirus, with the Acroceraunian'* mountains, by which we have 
previously mentioned^ this Gulf of Europe as bounded. 
Oricum is distant from the Promontory of Salentinum in 
Italy eighty^ miles. 
CHAP. 27. (24.) — THE NOEICI. 
In the rear of the Carni and the lapydes, along the course 
of the great river Ister'^, the Ehseti touch upon the JN^o- 
rici^ : their towns are Yimnum^, Celeia, Teurnia, Agun- 
tum^*^, Vianiomina^\ Claudia and Elavium Solvense^^. Ad- 
joining to the Norici is Lake Peiso^'^, and the deserts of 
the Corinthians and Corcyrseans. There are scarcely any vestiges of it 
remaining. ^ See further mention of this spot in B. ii. c. 110. 
2 Pouqueville states that the ruins of Amantia are to be seen near the 
village of Nivitza, on the right bank of the river Suchista. The remains 
of Bulhs, the chief town of the Buhones, according to the same traveller, 
are to be seen at a place called Grradista, four miles from the sea. 
3 The same writer states that Oricum was situate on the present Grulf 
De la YaUona or d' Avlona, and that its port was the place now called by 
the Grreeks Porto Haguseo, and by the Turks Liman Padisha. 
4 iji-^g, u jjeiglits of Thmider." They were so called from the frequent 
thunderstorms with which they were visited. The range however 
was more properly called the " Ceraumi Montes," and the promontory 
terminating it " Acroceraunii " or " Acroceraunia," meaning "the end oi 
the Cerauiiii." The range is now cahed the Mountains of Khimara, and 
the promontory, Grlossa, or in Itahan, Linguetta, meaning " the Tongue." 
^ In C. 15 of the present Book. 
^ About 70 Enghsh miles is the distance. 7 The Donau or Danube. 
s Noricum corresponded to the greater part of the present Styria and 
Caruithia, and a part of Austria, Bavaria, and Salzburg. 
^ According to D'Anville the modern Wolk-Markt, on the river 
Drau or Drave. Celeia is the modern Cilley in Carniola. Teurnia, 
according to Mannert, is the Lurnfelde, near the small town of Spital. 
1^ According to Mannert it was situate near the modern town of 
Innichen, near the sources of the Drave. 
Supposed to be the same as the Yindobona or Yradomona of 
other authors, standing on the site of the modern city of "Vienna. 
12 According to Cluver, it stood on the site of the modem Clausen in 
Bavaria. 
13 Mannert says that this place was the same with the modern Solfeld, 
near Klagenfurt. 
D'AnviUe and other writers think that this is the Neusiedler See, not 
