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 258 pliky's natueal histoet. [Book III. extends as far as the river Titus. The Mentores, the Hy m ani the Enchelei3e, the Buni, and the people whom Callimachus calls the Peucetiag, formerly formed part of it ; but now the whole in general are comprised under the one name of Illy ricum. But few of the names of these nations are worthy of mention, or indeed very easy of pronunciation. To the jurisdiction of Scardona^ resort the lapydes and fourteen cities of the Liburni, of which it may not prove tedious if I mention the Lacinienses, the Stlupini, the Burnistae, and the Olbonenses. Belonging to the same jurisdiction there are, in the enjoyment of Italian rights, the Alutse^, the Flanates^, from whom the Gulf takes its name, the Lopsi, and the Varvarini ; the Assesiates, who are exempt from tribute ; and upon the islands, the Fertinates and the Cu- rictse'. Besides these, there are on the coast, after leaving Nesac- tium, Alvona^, Flanona, Tarsatica, Senia, Lopsica, Ortopula, Vegium, Argyruntum, Corinium'', ^nona, the city of Pasinum, and the river Tedanius, at which lapydia ter- minates. The islands of this Grulf, with their towns, besides those above mentioned, are Absyrtium^, Arba^, Crexa, Grissa, ^ Hai'douin thinks that " Ismeni " is the proper reading here ; but all the MSS. seem to be against him. 2 Mentioned in the next Chapter. ^ Their town was Alnus or Aloiis. or Golfo di Quamero. The cliief town of the Lopsi was Lopsica, and of the Varvarini, Varvaria. ^ The island of Fertina is supposed to have been the modem Berwitch or Parvich. Curicta is now called Karek or Veglia. The Illyrian snails mentioned by our author, B. ix. c. 56, are very numerous here. Caius Antonius, the brother of Marcus, actmg under Julius Csesar, was be- sieged here by Libo. See the interesting account in Lucan's Pharsalia, B. iv. 1. 402-464. ^ The places on their sites are now called Albona, Fianona, Tersact or Tersat near Fiume, Segna, Lopsico, Ortopia, and Veza. 7 Now Carin. ^nona is now called Nona, and the Tedanius is the modern Zermagna. ^ The whole of tliis group of islands were sometimes called the Absyr- tides, from Absyrtus, the brother of Medea, who according to tradition was slain there. See the last Chapter, p. 266.. Ovid, however, in liis " Tristia," states that this took place at Tomi, on the Pontus Euxmus or Black Sea, the place of his banishment. ^ Said by D'Anville to be now caRed Ai'be, and Crexa to be the mo- dem Cherso. Gissa is thought to have been the modern Pago,
 * Their town was Flanona, which gave name to the Sinus Flanaticus