Book 7
5.6
Later writers call the Ardiaei, Vard$sei.Varalii, MSS.; but manifestly wrong. The Romans drove them into the interior from the sea-coast, which was infested by their piracies, and compelled them to cultivate the ground; but as the country was rugged and barren, and not adapted to husbandry, the nation was entirely ruined and nearly extinguished. The same happened to other neighbouring nations. People formerly very powerful are extinct, or were reduced to the lowest condition, as the Boii and Scordisci among the Galatae; the Autariatae, Ardiaei, and Dardanii, among the Illyrians; and the Triballi among the Thracians. They first declined in consequence of disputes amongst themselves, but were finally prostrated by wars with the Macedonians and Romans.
5.7
After the termination of the coast of the Ardiaei and Pleraei is the bay of the Rhizaei, a city Rhizon,Risano in the Gulf of Cataro. other small towns, and the river Drilon,The river Drin. which may be navigated up its stream towards the east as far as Dardanica. This country is situated close to the Macedonian and Paeonian nations, towards the south, as also the Autariatae and the Dasaretii are in parts contiguous to one another [and to the Autariatae].Kramer suggests the omission of these words, which render the passage obscure. To the Dardaniatae belong the Galabrii,Galabrii. The name of this people is unknown. Probably it should be changed to Taulantii, an Illyrian tribe, or considered as a second name of the Taulantii, or that of a tribe belonging to them. The name Galabrus, or Galaurus, king of the Taulantii, has come down to us, which gives some probability to the second conjecture. C. in whose territory is an ancient city; and the Thunatae, who approach on the east close to the Maedi,The Maedi occupied the mountains which separate Macedonia from Thrace, between the river Strymon and Mount Rhodope. G. a Thracian tribe.
