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Chap. 26.] brance is fast fading away. For in this region there were formerly the Labeatæ, the Enderini, the Sasæi, the Grabæ , properly called Illyrii, the Taulantii, and the Pyræi. The Promontory of Nymphæum on the sea-coast still retains its name ; and there is Lissum, a town enjoying the rights of Roman 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 Dassaretæ. The mountains of Candavia are seventy-eight miles from Dyrrhachium. On the coast lies Denda, a town with the rights of Roman citizens, the colony of Epidamuum which, on account of its inauspicious name, was by the Romans called Dyrrhachium, the river Aöus, by some called Æas, and Apollonia, formerly a colony of the Corinthians, at a distance of four miles from the sea, in the vicinity of which