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Stoma^ and tlie Psilon- Stomal These mouths are each of 
them so considerable, that for a distance of forty miles, it is 
said, the saltness of the sea is quite overpowered, and the 
water found to be fresh. 
CHAP. 25. — DACIA, SAEMATIA. 
On setting out from this spot, all the nations met 
with are Scythian in general, though various races have 
occupied the adjacent shores ; at one spot the Gretse'*^, by the 
E^omans called jDaci ; at another the Sarmatse, by the Greeks 
called Sauromatse, and the Hamaxobii^ or Aorsi, a 'branch 
of them ; then again the base-born Scythians and descend- 
ants of slaves, or else the Troglodyte?^ ; and then, after 
them, the Alani^ and the Ehoxalani. The higher'' parts 
again, between the Danube and the Hercynian Forest^, as 
far as the winter quarters of Pannonia at Carnuntum^, and 
the borders of the Germans, are occupied by the Sarmatian 
lazyges^^j who inhabit the level .country and the plains, 
swarms of mosquitoes, which were said at a certain time of the year to 
migrate to the Palus Mseotis. According to Brotier the present name 
of this island is Ilan Adasi, or Serpent Island. 
^ The " Northern Mouth " : near the town of Kiha. 
2 Or the "Narrow Mouth." 
3 Though Strabo distinguishes the Getse from the Daci, most of the 
ancient writers, with Phny, speak of them as identical. It is not known, 
however, why the Gretse in later times assumed the name of Daci. 
* " Dwellers in waggons." These were a Sarmatian tribe who wan- 
dered with their waggons along the banks of the Volga. The chief seats 
of the Aorsi, who seem in reaht j to have been a distinct people from the 
Hamaxobii, was in the country between the Tanais, the Euxine, the 
Caspian, and the Caucasus. 
^ " Dwellers in Caves." This name appears to have been given to 
various savage races in different parts of the world. 
^ There were races of the Alani in Asia on the Caucasus, and in Eu- 
rope on the Mseotis and the Euxine ; but then' precise geographical 
position is not clearly ascertained. 
7 The present Transylvania and Hungary. 
s The name given in the age of Phny to the range of mountains ex- 
tending around Bohemia, and through Moravia into Hungary. 
^ Its ruins are still to be seen on the south bank of the Danube near 
Haimburg, between Deutsch-Altenburg and Petroneh. The Roman fleet 
of the Danube, with the 14th legion, was originally established there. 
In Pliny's time this migratory tribe seems to have removed to the 
