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Chap. 28.]
ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC.
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the Boii[1]; they are however now inhabited by the people of Sabaria[2], a colony of the now deified emperor Claudius, and the town of Scarabantia Julia[3].


CHAP. 28. (25.) — PANNONIA.

Next to them comes acorn-bearing Pannonia[4], 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 Æmona[5] and Siscia. The following rivers, both known to fame and adapted for commerce, flow into the Danube; the Draus[6], which rushes from Noricum with great impetuosity, and the Savus[7], 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 Serrapilli[8], the Iasi, and the Andizetes; the Savus through the Colapiani[9] 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 Hercuniates[10], the

    far from Vienna. Mannert, however, is of opinion that the name ought to be written Pelso, and that the modern Balaton or Platten See is meant.

  1. The mountainous and woody tract in the vicinity of the Lake Balaton, on the confines of ancient Noricum and Pannonia.
  2. Now Sarvar on the river Raab, on the confines of Austria and Hungary.
  3. According to Hardouin, the modern Sopron or Œdenburg.
  4. 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 Tiberius, acting under the orders of Augustus.
  5. Now Laybach, previously mentioned in c. 22. Sissia has been succeeded by the modern Sissek on the Saave.
  6. The modern Draave or Drau.
  7. Now the Sau or Saave.
  8. 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.
  9. So called from the river Colapis. The other tribes are unknown.
  10. Probably the same as the mountain range near Warasdin on the