Book 7
5.4
Next in order comes the voyage of one thousand stadia along the coast of the country of the Iapodes; for the Iapodes are situated on the Albian Mountain, which is the last mountain of the Alps, is very lofty, and reaches down to the country of the Pannonians on one side and to the Adrias on the other. They are indeed a war-mad people, but they have been utterly worn out by Augustus. Their citiesCp. 4. 6. 10. are Metulum,Probably what is now the village of Metule, east of Lake Zirknitz. Arupini,Probably what is now Auersberg. Monetium,Now Möttnig. and Vendo.But the proper spelling is “Avendo,” which place was near what are now Crkvinje Kampolje, south-east of Zeng (see Tomaschek, Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. “Avendo”). Their lands are poor, the people living for the most part on spelt and millet. Their armor is Celtic, and they are tattooed like the rest of the Illyrians and the Miracians. After the voyage along the coast of the country of the Iapodes comes that along the coast of the country of the Liburni, the latter being five hundred stadia longer than the former; on this voyage is a river,The Titius, now Kerka. which is navigable inland for merchant-vessels as far as the country of the Dalmatians, and also a Liburnian city, Scardo.Now Scardona.
