Book 7
5.3
The Breuci, Andizetii, Ditiones, Peirustae, Mazaei, Daisitiatae, whose chief was Baton, and other small obscure communities, which extend to Dalmatia, and almost to the Ardiaei to the south, are Pannonians. The whole mountainous tract from the recess of the Adriatic bay to the Rhizonic gulf,Gulf of Cataro. and to the territory of the Ardiaei, intervening between the sea and Pannonia, forms the coast of Illyria.
5.3
Here perhaps we ought to begin an uninterrupted account of these places, after a short repetition.
5.3
In describing Italy we said, that the Istri were the first nation on the Illyrian coast, contiguous to Italy and to the Carni, and that the present government had advanced the limits of Italy to Pola,Now celebrated for the remains of a Roman amphitheatre. a city of Istria. These limits are distant about 800 stadia from the recess of the bay. It is the same distance from the promontory in front of Pola to Ancon,Ancona. keeping HeneticaThe Venetian territory. on the right hand. The whole voyage along the coast of Istria is 1300 stadia.
