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 482 STRABO. CASATJB. 314- taking their commencement from the lake in the territory of the Vindelici, Rhasti, and Helvetii. 1 2. The Daci depopulated a part of this country in their wars with the Boii and Taurisci, Keltic tribes whose chief was Critasirus. The Daci claimed the country, although it was separated from them by the river Parisus, 2 which flows from the mountains to the Danube, near the Galatre Scordisci, a people who lived intermixed with the Illyrian and the Thra- cian tribes. The Illyrians were destroyed by the Daci, while the Scordisci were frequently their allies. The rest of the country as far as Segestica, 3 and the Danube, towards the north and east, is occupied by Pannonii, but they extend farther in an opposite direction. The city Segestica, belonging to the Pannonii, is situated at the confluence of several rivers, all of which are navigable. It is in a conve- nient situation for carrying on war against the Daci, for it lies at the foot of the Alps, which extend to the lapodes, 4 a mixed Keltic and Illyrian tribe. Thence also flow the rivers by which is conveyed to Segestica a great quantity of mer- chandise, and among the rest, commodities from Italy. The distance from Aquileia to Nauportus, 5 a settlement of the Tau- risci, across the mountain Ocra, 6 is 350, or, according to some writers, 500 stadia. Merchandise is transported to Nauportus in waggons. The Ocra is the lowest part of the Alps, which extend from Rhoetica to the lapodes, where the mountains rise again, and are called Albii. From Tergeste, 7 a village of the Garni, 8 there is a pass across and through the Ocra to a marsh called Lugeum. 9 A river, the Corcoras, flows near Nauportus, and conveys the merchandise from that place. It discharges itself into the Save, and this latter river into the 1 The text presents some difficulty ; another reading is Taenii. Gos- sellin supposes the lake to be the Czirknitz-See near Mount Albius, now Alben or Planina. 2 The Margus ? See chap. v. 12. 3 At the confluence of the Kulpa and the Save, afterwards Siscia, now Sizsek. 5 According to Pliny, the name of this place is derived from the fable of the ship Argo, which was brought up the Danube and the Save, and thence carried on men's shoulders to the Adriatic. Now Porto Quieto. 6 To the north of Trieste. 7 Trieste. 8 Carniola. 9 The Czirknitz-See.
 * Occupied the coast of Morlacca from the Gulf of Quarnero to Zara.