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Almost the whole of ArdiaThe southern part of Dalmatia bounded by the Narenta, which takes its source in the Herzogovina. lies near the Adriatic, Paeonia is in the middle, and all this country consists of elevated ground. On the side towards Thrace, it is bounded by Rhodope,Called Monte Argentaro by the Italians, Basilissa by the Greeks, Rulla by the Turks. Baudrand. Despoto Dagh. a mountain next in height to Haemus; on the other side to the north is Illyria, and the country of the Autariatae,Occupied the neighbourhood of the river Titius, Kerca, which discharges itself near Siberico. and Dardania.The mountainous country south of Servia.
5.1
I shall first describe Illyria, which approaches close to the Danube, and to the Alps which lie between Italy and Germany, taking their commencement from the lake in the territory of the Vindelici, Rhaeti, and Helvetii.The text presents some difficulty; another reading is Taenii. Gossellin supposes the lake to be the Czirknitz-See near Mount Albius, now Alben or Planina.
5.2
The Daci depopulated a part of this country in their wars with the Boii and Taurisci, Keltic tribes whose chief was Critasirus. The Daci claimed the country, although it was separated from them by the river Parisus,The Margus? See chap. v. § 12. which flows from the mountains to the Danube, near the Galatae Scordisci, a people who lived intermixed with the Illyrian and the Thracian tribes. The Illyrians were destroyed by the Daci, while the Scordisci were frequently their allies.
