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CHAP. 28. (25.)—PANNONIA.

Next to them comes acorn-bearing Pannonia1, along which the chain of the Alps, gradually lessening as it runs through the middle of Illyricum from north to south, forms a gentle slope on the right hand and the left. The portion which looks towards the Adriatic Sea is called Dalmatia and Illyricum, above mentioned, while Pannonia stretches away towards the north, and has the Danube for its extreme boundary. In it are the colonies of Æmona2 and Siscia. The following rivers, both known to fame and adapted for commerce, flow into the Danube; the Draus3, which rushes from Noricum with great impetuosity, and the Savus4, which flows with a more gentle current from the Carnic Alps, there being a space between them of 120 miles. The Draus runs through the Serretes, the Serrapilli5, the Iasi, and the Andizetes; the Savus through the Colapiani6 and the Breuci; these are the principal peoples. Besides them there are the Arivates, the Azali, the Amantini, the Belgites, the Catari, the Cornacates, the Eravisci, the Hercuniates7, the Latovici, the Oseriates, the Varciani, and, in front of Mount Claudius, the Scordisci, behind it the Taurisci. In the Savus there is the island of Metubarris8, the greatest of all the islands formed by rivers. Besides the above, there are these other rivers worthy of mention:—the Colapis9, which flows into the Savus near Siscia, where, dividing its channel, it forms the island which is called Segestica10 a; and the river Bacuntius11, which flows into the Savus at the town of Sirmium, where we find the state of the Sirmienses and the Amantini. Forty-five miles thence is Taurunum12, where the Savus flows into the Danube; above which spot the Valdanus13 and the Urpanus, themselves far from ignoble rivers, join that stream.

1 This province corresponded to the eastern part of Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, the whole of Hungary between the Danube and Saave, Slavonia, and part of Croatia and Bosnia. It was reduced by fiberius, acting under the orders of Augustus.

2 Now Laybach, previously mentioned in c. 22. Sissia has been succeeded by the modern Sissek on the Saave.

3 The modern Draave or Drau.

4 Now the Sau or Saave.

5 According to Hardouin the Serretes and the Serrapilli inhabited the modern Carinthia on both sides of the Draave. The sites of the other nations here mentioned are unknown.

6 So called from the river Colapis. The other tribes are unknown.

7 Probably the same as the mountain range near Warasdin on the Draave. The nations mentioned here dwelt on the western and eastern slopes of this range.

8 Now known as Zagrabia.

9 Now the Culpa.

10 Dion Cassius, B. xix., says that the river Colapis or Colops flowed past the walls of the town of Siscia, but that Tiberius Cæsar caused a trench to be dug round the town, and so drew the river round it, leading it back on the other side into its channel. He calls the island Segetica.

11 Now the Bossut. Sirmium occupied the site of the present Sirmich.

12 The modern Tzeruinka, according to D'Anville and Brotier.

13 Now the Walpo and the Sarroiez, according to Hardouin; or the Bosna and the Verbas, according to Brotier and Mannert.

The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.

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