brance is fast fading away. For in this region there were formerly the Labeatæ, the Enderini[1], the Sasæi, the Grabæ[2], properly called Illyrii, the Taulantii[3], and the Pyræi. The Promontory of Nymphæum on the sea-coast still retains its name[4]; and there is Lissum, a town enjoying the rights of Roman citizens, at a distance from Epidaurum of 100 miles.
(23.) At Lissum begins the province of Macedonia[5], the nations of the Parthini[6], and behind them the Dassaretæ[7]. The mountains of Candavia[8] are seventy-eight miles from Dyrrhachium. On the coast lies Denda, a town with the rights of Roman citizens, the colony of Epidamuum[9] which, on account of its inauspicious name, was by the Romans called Dyrrhachium, the river Aöus[10], by some called Æas, and Apollonia[11], formerly a colony of the Corinthians, at a distance of four miles from the sea, in the vicinity of which
- ↑ According to Hardouin, the modem Endero stands on the site of their capital.
- ↑ Grabia, mentioned hj Pouqueville, in his "Voyage de la Grèe," seems to retain the name of this tribe.
- ↑ Pouqueville is of opinion that they occupied the district now known as Musaché.
- ↑ Dalechamp thinks that the two words "Retinet nomen" do not belong to the text, but have crept in from being the gloss of some more recent commentator. They certainly appear to be out of place. This promontory is now called Cabo Rodoni.
- ↑ The modern Albania.
- ↑ Pouqueville is of opinion that they inhabited the district about the present village of Presa, seven leagues N.E. of Durazzo.
- ↑ From Ptolemy we learn that Lychnidus was their town; the site of which, according to Pouquevdle, is still pointed out at a spot about four leagues south of Ochrida, on the eastern bank of the Lake of Ochrida.
- ↑ Now called El Bassan; though Pouqueville says Tomoros or De Caulonias. Commencing in Epirus, they separated Illyricum from Macedonia. See Lucan's Pliarsalia, 15. vi. 1. 331.
- ↑ The Romans are said to have changed its Greek name Epidamnum, from an idea that it was inauspicious, as implying "dannmni" or "ruin." It has been asserted that they gave it the name of Durrhachiuni or Dyrrliacliium, from "duinim," rugged, on accoimt of the ruggedness of its locality. This however cannot be the case, as the word, like its predecessor, is of Greek origin. Its unfortunate name, " Epidamnus," is the subject of several puns and witticisms in that most amusing perhaps of all the plays of Plautus, the Menaichmi. It was of Coreyræan origin, and after playing a distinguished part in the civil wars bctween Pompey and Cæsar, was granted by Augustus to his veteran troops. The modern Durazzo stands on its site.
- ↑ Now called the Yoioussa.
- ↑ The monastery of Pollina stands on its site. It was founded by
