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 276 STRABO. CASAUB. 184. Antipolis is ranked amongst the Italian cities, and freed from the government of the Marseillese by a judgment given against them. 10. Lying off this narrow pass along the coast, as you com- mence your journey from Marseilles, are the Stoecbades islands. 1 Three of these are considerable, and two small. They are cultivated by the people of Marseilles. Anciently they con- tained a garrison, placed here to defend them from the attacks of pirates, for they have good ports. After the Stoschades come [the islands ofj Planasia 2 and Lero, 3 both of them in- habited. In Lero, which lies opposite to Antipolis, is a temple erected to the hero Lero. There are other small islands not worth mentioning, some of them before Marseilles, others before the rest of the coast which I have been describing. As to the harbours, those of the seaport [of Forum- Julium] 4 and Marseilles are considerable, the others are but middling. Of this latter class is the port Oxybius, 5 so named from the Oxybian Ligurians. This concludes what we have to say of this coast. 1 1 . The country above this is bounded principally by the surrounding mountains and rivers. Of these the Rhone is the most remarkable, being both the largest, and capable of being navigated farther than any of the others, and also re- vpeiving into it a greater number of tributaries ; of these we Nmust speak in order. Commencing at Marseilles, and pro- y ceeding to the country between the Alps and the Rhone, to U; the river Durance, .dwell the Salyes for a space of 500 stadia. From thence you proceed in a ferry-boat to the city of Ca- ballio; 6 beyond this the whole country belongs to the Cavari as far as the junction of the Isere with the Rhone ; it is here too that the Cevennes approach the Rhone. From the Durance to this point is a distance of 700 stadia. 7 The Salyes occupy the plains and mountains above these. The Yocontii, Tri- corii, Iconii, and Medylli, He above the Cavari. 8 Between the Durance and the Isere there are other rivers which flow 1 Les Isles d' Hieres, a row of islands off Marseilles. 2 Isle St. Houorat. 3 Isle Ste. Marguerite. 4 Frejus. 5 Between the river d' Argents and Antibes. 6 Cavaillon. 7 From the mouth of the Durance to the mouth of the Isere, following the course of the Rhone, the distance is 24 leagues, or 7 % 20 Olympic stadia. 8 The Vocontii occupied the territories of Vaison and Die. The Tricorii appear to have inhabited a small district east of Die, on the