the celebrated Nymphæum[1] is inhabited by the barbarous Amantes[2] and Buliones. Upon the coast too is the town of Oricum[3], founded by the Colchians. At this spot begins Epirus, with the Acroceraunian[4] mountains, by which we have previously mentioned[5] this Gulf of Europe as bounded. Oricum is distant from the Promontory of Salentinum in Italy eighty[6] miles.
CHAP. 27. (24.) — THE NORICI.
In the rear of the Carni and the Iapydes, along the course of the great river Ister[7], the Rhæti touch upon the Norici[8]: their towns are Virunum[9], Celeia, Teurnia, Aguntum[10], Vianiomina[11], Claudia[12], and Flavium Solvense[13]. Adjoining to the Norici is Lake Peiso[14], and the deserts of
the Corinthians and Corcyræans. There are scarcely any vestiges of it remaining.</ref>
2 Pouqueville states that the ruins of Amantia are to be seen near the
village of Nivitza, on the right bank of the river Suchista. The remains
of Bullis, the chief town of the Buliones, according to the same traveller,
are to be seen at a place called Gradista, four miles from the sea.
3 The same writer states that Oricum was situate on the present Gulf De la Vallona or d'Avlona, and that its port was the place now called by the Greeks Porto Raguseo, and by the Turks Liman Padisha.
4 The "Heights of Thunder." They were so called from the frequent thunderstorms with which they were visited. The range however was more properly called the "Ceraunii Montes," and the promontory terminating it "Acroceraunii" or "Acroceraunia," meaning "the end of the Ceraunii." The range is now called the Mountains of Khimara, and the promontory, Glossa, or in Italian, Linguetta, meaning "the Tongue."
9 According to D'Anville the modern Wolk-Markt, on the river
Drau or Drave. Celeia is the modern Cilley in Carniola. Teurnia,
according to Mannert, is the Lurnfelde, near the small town of Spital.
- ↑ See further mention of this spot in B. ii. c. 110.
- ↑ 2
- ↑ 3
- ↑ 4
- ↑ In C. 15 of the present Book.
- ↑ About 70 English miles is the distance.
- ↑ The Donau or Danube.
- ↑ Noricum corresponded to the greater part of the present Styria and Carinthia, and a part of Austria, Bavaria, and Salzburg.
- ↑ 9
- ↑ According to Mannert it was situate near the modern town of Innichen, near the sources of the Drave.
- ↑ Supposed to be the same as the Vindobona or Vindomona of other authors, standing on the site of the modern city of Vienna.
- ↑ According to Cluver, it stood on the site of the modern Clausen in Bavaria.
- ↑ Mannert says that this place was the same with the modern Solfeld, near Klagenfurt.
- ↑ D'Anville and other writers think that this is the Neusiedler See, not
