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Inferior, Moesia Superior, Moesia Inferior, Dacia, and Thrace. This division continued till the time of Constantine, who severed from it Lower Moesia and Thrace, but added to it Macedonia, Thessaly, Achaia, Old and New Epirus, Praevalitana, and Crete. At this period it was one of the four great divisions of the Roman empire under a "Praefectus Praetorio," and it is in this signification that it is used by the later writers, such as Sextus Rufus, the "Auctor Notitiae Dignitatum Imperii," Zosimus, Jornandes, and others. At the final division of the Roman empire, the so-called "Illyricum Orientale," containing the provinces of Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus, Hellas, New Epirus, Crete, and Praevalitana, was incorporated with the Lower Empire; while Illyricum Occidentale" was united with Rome, and embraced Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Savia, and Valeria Ripensis.

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A. ILLYRIS BARBARA or ROMANA, was separated from Istria by the small river Arsia (Arsa), and bounded S. and E. by the Drilo, and on the N. by the Savus; consequently it is represented now by part of Croatia, all Dalmatia, the Herzegovina, Monte-Negro, nearly all Bosnia, and part of Albania. Illyris Romana was divided into three districts, the northern of which was IAPYDIA, extending S. as far as the Tedanius (Zermagna); the strip of land extending from the Arsia to the Titius (La Kerka) was called LIBURNIA, or the whole of the north of what was once Venetian Dalmatia; the territory of the DALMATAE was at first comprehended between the Naro and the Tilurus or Nestus: it then extended to the Titius. A list of the towns will be found under the several heads of IAPYDIA, LIBURNIA, and DALMATIA.

B. ILLYRIS GRAECA, which was called in later times EPIRUS NOVA, extended from the river Drilo to the SE., up to the Ceraunian mountains, which separated it from Epirus Proper. On the N. it was bounded by the Roman Illyricum and Mount Scordus, on the W. by the Ionian sea, on the S. by Epirus, and on the E. by Macedonia; comprehending, therefore, nearly the whole of modern Albania. Next to the frontier of Chaonia is the small town of AMANTIA, and the people of the AMANTIANS and BULLIONES. They are followed by the TAULANTII, who occupied the country N. of the Aous-the great river of S. Macedonia, which rises in Mount Lacmon, and discharges itself into the Adriatic-as far as Epidamnus. The chief towns of this country were APOLLONIA, and EPIDAMNUS or DYRRHACHIUM. In the interior, near the Macedonian frontier, there is a considerable lake, LACUS LYCHNITIS, from which the Drilo issues. Ever since the middle ages there has existed in this part the town of Achrida, which has been supposed to be the ancient LYCHNIDUS, and was the capital of the Bulgarian empire, when it extended from the Euxine as far as the interior of Aetolia, and comprised S. Illyricum, Epirus, Acarnania, Aetolia, and a part of Thessaly. During the Roman period the DASSARETAE dwelt there; the neighbouring country was occupied by the AUTARIATAE, who are said to have been driven from their country in the time of Cassander, when they removed as fugitives with their women and children into Macedonia. The ARDIAEI and PARTHINI dwelt N. of the Autariatae, though not at the same time, but only during the Roman period. SCODRA (Scuturi), in later times the capital of Praevalitana, was unknown during the flourishing period of Grecian history, and more properly belongs

to Roman Illyricum; as Lissus, which was situated at the mouth of the Drilo, was fixed upon by the Romans as the border town of the Illyrians in the S., beyond which they were not allowed to sail with their privateers. Internal communication in this Illyricum was kept up by the VIA CANDAVIA or EGNATIA, the great line which connected Italy and the East-Rome, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. A road of such importance, as Colonel Leake remarks (North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 311), and on which the distance had been marked with milestones soon after the Roman conquest of Macedonia, we may believe to have been kept in the best order as long as Rome was the centre of a vigorous authority; but it probably shared the fate of many other great establishments in the decline of the empire, and especially when it became as much the concern of the Byzantine as of the Roman government. This fact accounts for the discrepancies in the Itineraries; for though Lychnidus, Heracleia, and Edessa, still continued, as on the Candavian Way described by Polybius (ap. Strab. vii. pp. 322, 323), to be the three principal points between Dyrrhachium and Thessalonica (nature, in fact, having strongly drawn that line in the valley of the Genusus), there appears to have been a choice of routes over the ridges which contained the boundaries of Illyricum and Macedonia. By comparing the Antonine Itinerary, the Peutingerian Table, and the Jerusalem Itinerary, the following account of stations in Illyricum is obtained: Dyrrhachium or Apollonia. Clodiana

Scampae
Trajectus Genusi
Ad Dianam
Candavia
Tres Tabernae
Pons Servilii et Claudanum
Patrae
Lychnidus
Brucida
Scirtiana
Castra
Nicaea
Heracleia

Skumbi. Elbassan. Skumbi river.

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3. Physical Geography.— The Illyrian range of mountains, which traverses Dalmatia under the name of Mount Prolog, and partly under other names (Mons Albius, Bebius), branches off in Carniola from the Julian Alps, and then, at a considerable distance from the sea, stretches towards Venetia, approaches the sea beyond Aquileia near Trieste, and forms Istria. After passing through Istria as a lofty mountain, though not reaching the snow line, and traversing Dalmatia, which it separates from Bosnia, it extends into Albania. It is a limestone range, and, like most mountains belonging to that formation, much broken up; hence the bold and picturesque coast runs out into many promontories, and is flanked by numerous islands.

These islands appear to have originated on the breaking up of the lower grounds by some violent action, leaving their limestone summits above water. From the salient position of the promontory terminating in Punta della Planca, they are divided into two distinct groups, which the Greek geographers called ABSYRTIDES and LIBURNIDES. They trend NW. and SE., greatly longer than broad, and form various fine channels, called "canale," and named from the nearest adjacent island: these being bold,

with scarcely a hidden danger, give ships a secure | passage between them. Cherso, Osero, Lussin, Sansego (Absyrtides), abound with fossil bones. The bone-breccia of these islands appears to be the same conglomerate with those of Gibraltar, Cerigo, and other places in the Mediterranean. The Liburnian group (Abvpvides vool, Strab. ii. p. 124, vii. pp. 315, 317; " Liburnicae Insulae," Plin. iii. 30), LISSA (Grossa), BRATTIA (Brazza), Issa (Lissa), MELITA (Melada), CORCYRA NIGRA (Curzola), PHAROS (Lesina) and OLYNTA (Solta), have good ports, but are badly supplied with drinkable water, and are not fertile. The mountainous tract, though industriously cultivated towards the shore, is for the most part, as in the days of Strabo (l. c.), wild, rugged, and barren. The want of water and the arid soil make Dalmatia unfit for agriculture; and therefore of old, this circumstance, coupled with the excellency and number of the harbours, made the natives more known for piracy than for commercial enterprise. A principal feature of the whole range is that called Monte-Negro (Czernagora), consisting chiefly of the cretaceous or Mediterranean limestone, so extensively developed from the Alps to the Archipelago, and remarkable for its craggy character. The general height is about 3000 feet, with a few higher summits, and the slopes are gentle in the direction of the inclination of the "strata," with precipices at the outcroppings, which give a fine variety to the scenery.

There is no sign of volcanic action in Dalmatia; and the Nymphaeum near Apollonia, celebrated for the flames that rose continually from it, has probably no reference to anything of a volcanic nature, but is connected with the beds of asphaltum, or mineral pitch, which occur in great abundance in the nummulitic limestone of Albania.

The coast of what is now called Middle Albania, or the Illyrian territory, N. of Epirus, is, especially in its N. portion, of moderate height, and in some places even low and unwholesome, as far as AULON (Vulona or Avlona), where it suddenly becomes rugged and mountainous, with precipitous cliffs descending rapidly towards the sea. This is the Khimara range, upwards of 4000 feet high, dreaded by ancient mariners as the Acro-Ceraunian promontory. The interior of this territory was much superior to N. Illyricum in productiveness: though mountainous, it has more valleys and open plains for cultivation. The sea-ports of Epidamnus and Apollonia introduced the luxuries of wine and oil to the barbarians; whose chiefs learnt also to value the woven fabrics, the polished and carved metallic work, the tempered weapons, and the pottery which was furnished them by Grecian artisans. Salt fish, and, what was of more importance to the inland residents on lakes like that of Lychnidus, salt itself, was imported. In return they supplied the Greeks with those precious commodities, cattle and slaves. Silver mines were also worked at DAMASTIUM. Wax and honey were probably articles of export; and it is a proof that the natural products of Ilyria were carefully sought out, when we find a species of iris peculiar to the country collected and sent to Corinth, where its root was employed to give the special flavour to a celebrated kind of aromatic unguent. Grecian commerce and intercourse not only tended to civilise the S. Illyrians beyond their northern brethren, who shared with the Thracian tribes the custom of tattooing their bodies and of offering human sacrifices; but through the intro

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duction of Grecian exiles, made them acquainted with Hellenic ideas and legends, as may be seen by the tale of Cadmus and Harmonia, from whom the chiefs of the Illyrian Enchelees professed to trace their descent. (Comp. Grote, Hist. of Greece, vol. iv. pp. 1-10, and the authorities quoted there; to which may be added, Wilkinson, Dalmatia and Montenegro, vol. i. pp. 38-42; J. F. Neigebaur, Die Sudslaven, Leipzig, 1851; Niebuhr, Lect. on Ethnog. and Geog. vol. i. pp. 297-314; Smyth, The Mediterranean, pp. 40-45; Hahn, Albanesische Studien, Wien, 1854.)

4. Race and National Character.-Sufficient is not known either of the language or customs of the Illyrians, by which their race may be ascertained. The most accurate among the ancient writers have always distinguished them as a separate nation, or group of nations, from both the Thracians and Epirots.

The ancient Illyrians are unquestionably the ancestors of the people generally known in Europe by the name Albanians, but who are called by the Turks" Arnauts," and by themselves" Skipetares," which means in their language "mountaineers," or "dwellers on rocks," and inhabit the greater part of ancient Illyricum and Epirus. They have a peculiar language, and constitute a particular race, which is very distinct from the Slavonian inhabitants who border on them towards the N. The ancients, as has been observed, distinguished the Illyrians from the Epirots, and have given no intimations that they were in any way connected. But the Albanians, who inhabit both Illyricum and Epirus, are one people, whose language is only varied by slight modifications of dialect. The Illyrians appear to have been pressed southwards by Slavonian hordes, who settled in Dalmatia. Driven out from their old territories, they extended themselves towards the S., where they now inhabit many districts which never belonged to them in former times, and have swallowed up the Epirots, and extinguished their language. According to Schafarik (Slav. Alt vol. i. p. 31) the modern Albanian population is 1,200,000.

Ptolemy is the earliest writer in whose works the name of the Albanians has been distinctly recognised. He mentions (iii. 13. § 23) a tribe called ALBANI ('AX6avoí) and a town ALBANOPOLIS ('Aλ6avóжOλs), in the region lying to the E. of the Ionian sea; and from the names of places with which Albanopolis is connected, it appears clearly to have been in the S. part of the Illyrian territory, and in modern Albania. There are no means of forming a conjecture how the name of this obscure tribe came to be extended to so considerable a nation. The latest work upon the Albanian language is that of F. Ritter von Xylander (Die Sprache der Albanesen oder Skhipetaren, 1835), who has elucidated this subject, and established the principal facts upon a firm basis. An account of the positions at which Xylander arrived will be found in Prichard (The Physical History of Mankind, vol. iii. pp. 477482).

As the Dalmatian Slaves have adopted the name Illyrians, the Slavonian language spoken in Dalmatia, especially at Ragusa, is also called Illyrian; and this designation has acquired general currency; but it must always be remembered that the ancient Illyrians were in no way connected with the Slave races.

In the practice of tattooing their bodies, and offering human sacrifices, the Illyrians resembled the Thracians (Strab. vii. p. 315; Herod. v. 6): the

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more northerly Illyrians, and driving them further to the south. Under Bardylis the Illyrians, who had formed themselves into a kingdom, the origin of which cannot be traced, had extended themselves over the towns, villages, and plains of W. Macedonia (Diod. xvi. 4; Theopomp. Fr. 35, ed. Didot.; Cic. de Off. ii. 11; Phot. Bibl. p. 530, ed. Bekker; Liban. Orat. xxviii. p. 632). As soon as the young Philip of Macedon came to the throne, he attacked these hereditary enemies B. c. 360, and pushed his successes so vigorously, as to reduce to subjection all the tribes to the E. of Lychnidus. (Comp. Grote, Hist. of Greece, vol. xi. pp. 302-304.) A state was formed the capital of which was probably near Ragusa, but the real Illyrian pirates with whom the Romans came in collision, must have occupied the N. of Dalmatia. Rhodes was still a maritime power; but by B.C. 233 the Illyrians had become formidable in the Adriatic, ravaging the coasts, and disturbing the navigation of the allies of the Romans. Envoys were sent to Teuta, the queen of the Illyrians, demanding reparation: she replied, that piracy was the habit of her people, and finally had the envoys murdered. (Polyb. ii. 8; Appian, Illyr. 7; Zonar. viii. 19; comp. Plin. xxxiv. 11.) A Roman army for the first time crossed the Ionian gulf, and concluded a peace with the Illyrians upon honourable terms, while the Greek states of Corcyra, Apollonia, and Epidamnus, received their liberty as a gift from Rome.

custom of one of their tribes, the Dalmatians, to have a new division of their lands every eighth year (Strab. I. c.), resembled the well-known practice of the Germans, only advanced somewhat further towards civilised life. The author of the Periplus ascribed to Scylax (1. c.) speaks of the great | influence enjoyed by their women, whose lives, in consequence, he describes as highly licentious. The Illyrian, like the modern Albanian Skipetar, was always ready to fight for hire; and rushed to battle, obeying only the instigation of his own love of fighting, or vengeance, or love of blood, or craving for booty. But as soon as the feeling was satisfied, or overcome by fear, his rapid and impetuous rush was succeeded by an equally rapid retreat or flight. (Comp. Grote, Hist. of Greece, vol. vi. p. 609.) They did not fight in the phalanx, nor were they merely Ao; they rather formed an intermediate class between them and the phalanx. Their arms were short spears and light javelins and shields ("peltastae"); the chief weapon, however, was the μáxaipa, or Albanian knife. Dr. Arnold has remarked (Hist. of Rome, vol. i. p. 495),– "The eastern coast of the Adriatic is one of those ill-fated portions of the earth which, though placed in immediate contact with civilisation, have remained perpetually barbarian." But Scymnus of Chios (comp. Arnold, vol. iii. p. 477), writing of the Illyrians about a century before the Christian era, calls them a religious people, just and kind to strangers, loving to be liberal, and desiring to live orderly and On the death of Teuta, the traitor Demetrius of soberly." After the Roman conquest, and during its Pharos made himself guardian of Pineus, son of dominion, they were as civilised as most other Agron, and usurped the chief authority in Illyripeoples reclaimed from barbarism. The emperor cum: thinking that the Romans were too much enDiocletian and St. Jerome were both Illyrians. And gaged in the Gallic wars, he ventured on several the palace at Spalato is the earliest existing spe- piratical acts. This led to the Second Illyrian War, cimen of the legitimate combination of the round B.C. 219, which resulted in the submission of the arch and the column; and the modern history of the whole of Illyricum. Demetrius fled to Macedonia, eastern shores of the Adriatic begins with the rela- and Pineus was restored to his kingdom. (Polyb.iii. tions established by Heraclius with the Serbs or 16, 18; Liv. xxii. 33; App. Illyr. 7, 8; Flor. ii. 5; W. Slaves, who moved down from the Carpathians Dion Cass. xxxiv. 46, 151; Zonar. viii. 20.) Pineus into the provinces between the Adriatic and the was succeeded by his uncle Scerdilaidas, and Danube. The states which they constituted were Scerdilaidas by his son Pleuratus, who, for his of considerable weight in the history of Europe, and fidelity to the Roman cause during the Macedonian the kingdoms, or bannats, of Croatia, Servia, Bosnia, War, was rewarded at the peace of 196 by the addiRascia, and Dalmatia, occupied for some centuries a tion to his territories of Lychnidus and the Parthini, political position very like that now held by the which had before belonged to Macedonia (Polyb. secondary monarchical states of the present day. xviii. 30, xxi. 9, xxii. 4; Liv. xxxi. 28, xxxii. The people of Narenta, who had a republican form 34.) In the reign of Gentius, the last king of of government, once disputed the sway of the Illyricum, the Dalmatae revolted, B. c. 180; and Adriatic with the Venetians; Ragusa, which sent the praetor L. Anicius, entering Illyricum, finished her Argosies (Ragosies) to every coast, never once the war within thirty days, by taking the capital succumbed to the winged Lion of St. Mark; and for Scodra (Scutari), into which Gentius had thrown some time it seemed probable that the Servian himself, B. c. 168. (Polyb. xxx. 13; Liv. xliv. 30 colonies established by Heraclius were likely to take 32, xlv. 43; Appian, Illyr. 9; Eutrop. iv. 6.) a prominent part in advancing the progress of Eu-Illyricum, which was divided into three parts, beropean civilisation. (Comp. Finlay, Greece under the Romans, p. 409.)

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came annexed to Rome. (Liv. xlv. 26.) The history of the Roman wars with DALMATIA, IAPYDIA, and LIBURNIA, is given under those heads.

5. History. The Illyrians do not appear in history before the Peloponnesian War, when Brasidas and In B. C. 27 Illyricumn was under the rule of a Perdiccas retreated before them, and the Illyrians, proconsul appointed by the senate (Dion Cass. liii. for the first time, probably, had to encounter Grecian 12): but the frequent attempts of the people to retroops. (Thuc. iv. 124-128.) Nothing is heard of cover their liberty showed the necessity of mainthese barbarians afterwards, till the time of Philip taining a strong force in the country; and in B. C. of Macedon, by whose vigour and energy their in- 11 (Dion Cass. liv. 34) it was made an imperial cursions were first repressed, and their country par- province, with P. Cornelius Dolabella for "legatus' tially conquered. Their collision with the Mace-(" leg. pro. pr.," Orelli, Inscr. no. 2365, comp. no. donians appears to have risen under the following circumstances. During the 4th century before Christ a large immigration of Gallic tribes from the westward was taking place, invading the territory of the

3128; Tac. Hist. ii. 86; Marquardt, in Becker's Röm. Alt. vol. iii. pt. i. pp. 110-115). A large region, extending far inland towards the valley of the Save and the Drave, contained bodies of soldiery,

who were stationed in the strong links of the chain of military posts which was scattered along the frontier of the Danube. Inscriptions are extant on which the records of its occupation by the 7th and 11th legions can still be read. (Orelli, nos. 3452, 3553, 4995, 4996; comp. Joseph. B. J. ii. 16; Tac. Ann. iv. 5, Hist. ii. 11. 85.) There was at that time no seat of government or capital; but the province was divided into regions called "conventus: each region, of which there were three, named from the towns of SCARDONA, SALONA, and NARONA, was subdivided into numerous "decuriae." Thus the "conventus" of Salona had 382 "decuriae." (Plin. iii. 26.) IADERA, SALONA, NARONA, and EPIDAURUS, were Roman "coloniae;" APOLLONIA and CORCYRA, "civitates liberae." (Appian, Illyr. 8; Polyb. ii. 11.) The jurisdiction of the "pro-praetor," or "legatus," does not appear to have extended throughout the whole of Illyricum, but merely over the maritime portion. The inland district either had its own governor, or was under the praefect of Pannonia. Salona in later times became the capital of the province (Procop. B. G. i. 15; Hierocles), and the governor was styled "praeses." (Orelli, nos. 1098, 3599.) The most notable of these were Dion Cassius the historian, and his father Cassius Apronianus.

The warlike youth of Pannonia and Dalmatia afforded an inexhaustible supply of recruits to the legions stationed on the banks of the Danube; and the peasants of Illyricum, who had already given Claudius, Aurelian, and Probus to the sinking empire, achieved the work of rescuing it by the elevation of Diocletian and Maximian to the imperial purple. (Comp. Gibbon, c. xiii.)

the West would have been lost to the Greeks. He
raclius, in his plan for circumscribing the ravages
of the northern enemies of the empire, occupied the
whole interior of the country, from the borders of
Istria to the territory of Dyrrhachium, with colonies
of the Serbs or W. Slaves. From the settlement of
the Servian Slavonians within the bounds of the
empire we may therefore date, as has been said
above, the earliest encroachments of the Illyrian or
Albanian race on the Hellenic population of the
South. The singular events which occurred in the
reign of Heraclius are not among the least of the
elements which have gone to make up the con-
dition of the modern Greek nation. [E. B.J.]
ILORCI. [ELIOCROCA.]
ILUCIA. [ORETANI.]

ILURATUM ('IXoúpaτov, Ptol. iii. 6. § 6), a
town in the interior of the Tauric Chersonese, pro-
bably somewhat to the N. of Kaffa. [E. B. J.]
ILURCA'ONES. [ILERCAONES.]
ILURCIS. [GRACCURRIS.]

ILURGEIA, ILURGIS. [ILLITURGIS.]
ILURGETAE. [ILERGETES.]

ILURO, in Gallia Aquitania, is placed by the Antonine Itin. on the road from Caesaraugusta, in Spain, to Beneharmum. [BENEHARMUM.] Iluro is between Aspaluca [ASPALUCA] and Beneharmum. The modern site of Iluro is Oléron, which is the same name. Oléron is in the department of Basses Pyrénées, at the junction of the Gave d'Aspe, the river of Aspaluca, and the Gave d'Ossau, which by their union form the Gare d'Oléron. Gave is the name in these parts for the river-valleys of the Pyrenees. In the Notitia of Gallia, Iluro is the Civitas Elloronensium. The place was a bishop's see from the commencement of the sixth century. [G. L.]

I'LURO. 1. (Alora), a city of Baetica, situated on a hill. (Inscr. ap. Carter, Travels, p. 161; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 358.)

2. [LAEETANI.]

[P.S.]

ILUZA (тà *Iλov(a), a town in Phrygia Pacatiana, which is mentioned only in very late writers, and is probably the same as Aludda in the Table of Peutinger; in which case it was situated between Sebaste and Acmonia, 25 Roman miles to the east of the latter town. It was the see of a Christian bishop. (Hierocl. p. 667; Concil. Constant. iii. p. 534.) [L. S.]

After the final division of the empire, Marcellinus, "Patrician of the West," occupied the maritime portion of W. Illyricum, and built a fleet which claimed the dominion of the Adriatic. [DALMATIA.] E. Illyricum appears to have suffered so much from the hostilities of the Goths and the oppressions of Alaric, who was declared, A. D. 398, its master-general (comp. Claudian, in Eutrop. ii. 216, de Bell. Get. 535), that there is a law of Theodosius II. which exempts the cities of Illyricum from contributing towards the expenses of the public spectacles at Constantinople. (Theod. cod. x. tit. 8. s. 7.) But though suffering from these inroads, casual encounters often showed that the people were not destitute of courage and military skill. Attila himself, the terror of both Goths and Romans, was defeated before the town of Azimus, a frontier fortress of Illyricum. (Priscus, p. 143, ed. Bonn; comp. Gibbon, c. xxxiv.; Finlay, Greece under the Romans, p. 203.) The coasts of Illyricum were considered of great importance to the court of Constantinople. The rich produce transported by the caravans which reached the N. shores of the Black Sea, was then conveyed to Constantinople to be distributed through W. Europe. Under these circum-indented by deep gulfs and inlets, so that its breadth stances, it was of the utmost consequence to defend the two points of Thessalonica and Dyrrhachium, the two cities which commanded the extremities of the usual road between Constantinople and the Adriatic. (Tafel, de Thessalonica, p. 221; Hullman, Geschich. des Byzantischen Handels, p. 76.) The open country was abandoned to the Avars and the E. Slaves, who made permanent settlements even to the S. of the Via Egnatia; but none of these settlements were allowed to interfere wit th❘ lines of communication, without which the trade of

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ILVA ('Iλova, Ptol.: Elba), called by the Greeks AETHALIA (Ai@aλía, Strab., Diod.; Aitáλeia, Ps. Arist., Philist. ap. Steph. B.), an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, lying off the coast of Etruria, opposite to the headland and city of Populonium. It is much the most important of the islands in this sea, situated between Corsica and the mainland, being about 18 miles in length, and 12 in its greatest breadth. Its outline is extremely irregular, the mountains which compose it, and which rise in some parts to a height of above 3000 feet, being

in some places does not exceed 3 miles. Its circuit is greatly overstated by Pliny at 100 Roman miles: the same author gives its distance from Populonium at 10 miles, which is just about correct; but the width of the strait which separates it from the nearest point of the mainland (near Piombino) does not much exceed 6, though estimated by Diodorus as 100 stadia (12 miles), and by Strabo, through an enormous error, at not less than 300 stadia. (Strab. v. p. 223; Diod. v. 13; Plin. iii. 6. s. 12; Mel. ii. 7. § 19; Scyl. p. 2. § 6; Apoll. Rhod,

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iv. 654.) Ilva was celebrated in ancient times, as it still is at the present day, for its iron mines; these were probably worked from a very early period by the Tyrrhenians of the opposite coast, and were already noticed by Hecataeus, who called the island Altán indeed, its Greek name was generally regarded as derived from the smoke (altáλn) of the numerous furnaces employed in smelting the iron. (Diod. v. 13; Steph. B. s. v.) In the time of Strabo, however, the iron ore was no longer smelted in the island itself, the want of fuel compelling the inhabitants (as it does at the present day) to transport the ore to the opposite mainland, where it was smelted and wrought so as to be fitted for commercial purposes. The unfailing abundance of the ore (alluded to by Virgil in the line

the circumstances here related, it is clear that they
dwelt on the N. slopes of the Apennines, towards
the plains of the Padus, and apparently not very
far from Clastidium (Casteggio); but we cannot de-
termine with certainty either the position or extent of
their territory. Their name, like those of most of the
Ligurian tribes mentioned by Livy, had disappeared
in the Augustan age, and is not found in any of the
geographers. [LIGURIA.] Walckenaer, however,
supposes the ELEATES over whom the consul M.
Fulvius Nobilior celebrated a triumph in B. c. 159
(Fast. Capit. ap. Gruter, p. 297), and who are in
all probability the same people with the Veleiates of
Pliny [VELEIA], to be identical also with the Il-
vates of Livy; but this cannot be assumed without
further proof. (Walckenaer, Géogr. des Gaules,
vol. i. p. 154.)
[E. H. B.]

"Insula inexhaustis Chalybum generosa metallis") IMACHARA (Ιμιχάρα or Ημιχάρα, Ptol.: Eth. led to the notion that it grew again as fast as it Imacharensis, Cic.; Imacarensis, Plin.), a city of was extracted from the mines. It had also the Sicily, the name of which does not appear in history, advantage of being extracted with great facility, as but which is repeatedly mentioned by Cicero among it is not sunk deep beneath the earth, but forms the municipal towns of the island. There is great a hill or mountain mass of solid ore. (Strab. 7. c.; discrepancy in regard to the form of the name, which Diod. l. c.; Virg. Aen. x. 174; Plin. iii. 6. s. 12, is written in many MSS. "Macarensis” or “ Machaxxxiv. 14. s. 41; Pseud. Arist. de Mirab. 95; Rutil.rensis;" and the same uncertainty is found in those Itin. i. 351-356; Sil. Ital. viii. 616.) The mines, which are still extensively worked, are situated at a place called Rio, near the E. coast of the island; they exhibit in many cases unequivocal evidence of the ancient workings.

The only mention of Ilva that occurs in history is in B. C. 453, when we learn from Diodorus that it was ravaged by a Syracusan fleet under Phayllus, in revenge for the piratical expeditions of the Tyrrhenians. Phayllus having effected but little, a second fleet was sent under Apelles, who is said to have made himself master of the island; but it certainly did not remain subject to Syracuse. (Diod. xi. 88.) The name is again incidentally mentioned by Livy (xxx. 39) during the expedition of the consul Tib. Claudius to Corsica and Sardinia.

Ilva has the advantage of several excellent ports, of which that on the N. side of the island, now called Porto Ferraio, was known in ancient times as the PORTUS ARGOUS ('Apyŵos Aun), from the circumstance that the Argonauts were believed to have touched there on their return voyage, while sailing in quest of Circe. (Strab. v. p. 224; Diod. iv. 56; Apollon. Rhod. iv. 658.) Considerable ruins of buildings of Roman date are visible at a place called Le Grotte, near Porto Ferraio, and others are found near Capo Castello, at the NE. extremity of the island. The quarries of granite near S. Piero, in the SW. part of Elba, appears also to have been extensively worked by the Romans, though no notice of them is found in any ancient writer; but numerous columns, basins for fountains, and other architectural ornaments, still remain, either wholly or in part hewn out of the adjacent quarry. (Hoare, Class. Tour, vol. i. pp. 23-29). [E. H. B.]

ILVATES, a Ligurian tribe, whose name is found only in Livy. He mentions them first as taking up arms in B. C. 200, in concert with the Gaulish tribes of the Insubres and Cenomani, to destroy the Roman colonies of Placentia and Cremona. They are again noticed three years later as being still in arms, after the submission of their Transpadane allies; but in the course of that year's campaign (B. C. 197) they were reduced by the consul Q. Minucius, and their name does not again appear in history. (Liv. xxx. 10, xxxi. 29, 30.) From

of Pliny, who also notices the town among those of the interior of Sicily. (Cic. Verr. iii. 18, 42, v. 7; Zumpt, ad loc.; Plin. iii. 8. s. 14; Sillig, ad loc.) From the manner in which it is spoken of by Cicero, it would seem to have been a town of some consideration, with a territory fertile in corn. That writer associates it with Herbita, Assorus, Agyrium, and other towns of the interior, in a manner that would lead us to suppose it situated in the same region of Sicily; and this inference is confirmed by Ptolemy, who places Hemichara or Himichara (evidently the same place) in the NE. of Sicily, between Capitium and Centuripa. (Ptol. iii. 4. § 12.) Hence Cluverius conjectures that it may have occupied the site of Traina, but this is wholly uncertain. Fazello and other Sicilian writers have supposed the ruins of an ancient city, which are still visible on the coast about 9 miles N. of Cape Pachynum, near the Porto Vindicari, to be those of Imachara; but though the name of Macaresa, still borne by an adjoining headland, gives some colour to this opinion, it is wholly opposed to the data furnished us by ancient authors, who all agree in placing Imachara in the interior of the island. The ruins in question, which indicate the site of a considerable town, are regarded by Cluverius (but equally without authority) as those of Ichana. (Cluver. Sicil. p. 356; Fazell. de Reb. Sic. iv. 2, p. 217; Amico, Not. ad Fazell. pp. 417, 447; Hoare's Classical Tour, vol. ii. p. 301.) [E. H. B.]

IMA'US, the great mountain chain, which, according to the ancients, divided Northern Asia into "Scythia intra Imaum" and "Scythia extra Imaum." This word (Tò Iuaov opos, Strab. xv. p. 689; Ptol. vi. 13. § 1; rò 'luaîov upos, Strab. ii. p. 129; Iuaos, Agathem. ii. 9: although all the MSS. of Strabo (xi. p. 516) have Isamus Cloauos) in the passage describing the expedition of the Graeco-Bactrian king Menander, yet there can be no doubt but that the text is corrupt, and the word Imaus should be substituted), connected with the Sanscrit himavat, " snowy" (comp. Plin. vi. 17; Bohlen, das Alte Indien, vol. i. p. 11; Lassen, Ind. Alt. vol. i. p. 17), is one of those many significative expressions which have been used for mountain masses upon every zone of the earth's surface (for instance, Mont Blanc, in Savoy, Sierra

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