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famous for its goats, Issa witli the rights of Eoman citizens, 
and Pharia with a town. At a distance of twenty-five miles 
from Issa is Corcyra\ surnamed Melsena, with a town founded 
by the Cnidians ; between which and Illyricum is Melite^, 
from which, as we learn from Callimachus, a certain kind 
of little dogs were called Melitsei ; fifteen miles from it we 
find the seven Elaphites^. In the Ionian Sea, at a distance 
of twelve miles from Oricum, is Sasonis^, notorious from 
having been a harbour of pirates. 
SiJMMAET. — The towns and nations mentioned are in 
number ^ ^ ^ The rivers of note are in number =^ ^ * ^. 
The mountains of note are in number ^ * ^. The islands 
are in number ^ ^ ^. The towns or nations which have 
disappeared are in number ^ =^ ^. The facts, statements, 
and observations are in number 326. 
EoMAi^ AuTHOES QUOTED. — Turaunius G-racilis^, Cor- 
nelius Xepos^, T. Livius^, Cato the Censor^, M. Agrip- 
the coast of Dahnatia, and was used as a place of banishment under the 
emperors. 
^ Now Curzola, or, in the Sclavonic, Karkar. It obtained its name of 
Nigra or Melsena, "black," from the dark colour of its pine woods. 
Sir Gr. Wilkinson describes it in his *' Dalmatia and Montenegro," vol. i. 
2 Now called Meleda or ZapunteUo. It is more generally to the 
other island of Mehta or Malta that the origin of the "Mehtjei" or Maltese 
dogs is ascribed. Some writers are of opinion that it was upon this 
island that St. Paiol was shipwrecked, and not the larger Mehta. 
3 So called from their resemblance to a stag, eXa^os, of which the 
modern Griupan formed the head, Kuda the neck, Mezzo the body, Cala- 
motta the haunches, and the rock of Grrebini or Pettini the tail. They 
produce excellent wine and oil, and are looked upon as the most valuable 
part of the Ragusan territory. 
^ Still known as Sasino. It is ten miles from Ragusa, the port of 
Oricum, according to Pouqueville. ^ The original numbers are lost. 
^ He was a Spaniard by birth, a native of MeUaria in Hispania Pfetica. 
He is mentioned by Cicero as a man of great learning, and is probably 
the same person that is mentioned by Ovid in his Pontic Epistles, P. iv. 
ep. xvi. 1. 29, as a distinguished tragic writer. 
7 See end of P. ii. ^ See end of P. ii. 
^ M. Porcius Cato, or Cato the Elder ; famous as a statesman, a 
patriot, and a philosopher. He wrote " De Pe Pustica," a work which 
still survives, and " Letters of Instruction to his Son," of which only some 
fragments remain. He also wrote a historical work called " Origines," 
