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num[1], the river Liquentia rising in the mountains of Opitergium[2], and a port with the same name, the colony of Concordia[3]; the rivers and harbours of Romatinum[4], the greater and less Tiliaventum[5], the Anaxum[6], into which the Varamus flows, the Alsa[7], and the Natiso with the Turrus, which flow past the colony of Aquileia[8] at a distance of fifteen miles from the sea. This is the country of the Carni[9], and adjoining to it is that of the Iapydes, the river Timavus[10], the
- ↑ Situate in a marsh or lagune on the river Sile. It became a Roman colony after Pliny's time, under the Emperor Trajan. Its villas are described by Martial as rivalling those of Baiæ. The Emperor Verus died here A.D. 169. The modern village of Altino is a very impoverished place. The Liquentia is now called the Livenza.
- ↑ Now called Oderzo, on the river Montegano, which flows into the Liquenza. The conduct of the people of this place, in the wars between Pompey and Cæsar, is mentioned by Lucan, in his Pharsalia, B. iv. l. 462.
- ↑ From inscriptions we find that this place was called Colonia Julia Concordia, from which it seems probable that it was one of the colonies founded by Augustus to celebrate the restoration of peace. It rapidly rose into importance, and is often mentioned during the later ages of the Roman Empire, as one of the most important cities in this part of Italy. It is now a poor village, with the same name, and no remains of antiquity beyond a few inscriptions.
- ↑ The Romatinum is the modern Lemene. Pliny seems to imply, (though from the uncertainty of the punctuation it is not clear,) that on the Romatinum there was a port of that name. If so, it would probably occupy the site of the present Santa Margherita, at the mouth of the Lemene.
- ↑ The greater Tiliaventum is the modern Tagliamento; and Hardouin suggests that the smaller river of that name is the Lugugnana.
- ↑ This river is supposed to be the same with the modern Stella, and the Varamus the Revonchi, which joins the Stella.
- ↑ Now called the Ansa. The Natiso is the modern Natisone, and the Turrus the Torre; the former flowed past Aquileia on the west, the latter on the east, in former times, but their course is probably now changed, and they fall into the Isonzo, four miles from the city.
- ↑ The capital of Venetia, and one of the most important cities of Northern Italy. In the year A.D. 452 it was besieged by Attila, king of the Huns, taken by storm, and plundered and burnt to the ground. On its site, which is very unhealthy, is the modern village of Aquileia, with about 1400 inhabitants. No ruins of any buildings are visible, but the site abounds with coins, shafts of columns, inscriptions, and other remains of antiquity.
- ↑ Ptolemy states that Concordia and Aquileia were situate in the district of the Carni.
- ↑ Still called the Timavo.
