See Florus, i.11.The second must strike every modern traveller.] [Footnote 77: Pliny (Hist.Natur.l.

iii.) follows the division of Italy by Augustus.] The European provinces of Rome were protected by the course of the Rhine and the Danube.

The latter of those mighty streams, which rises at the distance of only thirty miles from the former, flows above thirteen hundred miles, for the most part to the south-east, collects the tribute of sixty navigable rivers, and is, at length, through six mouths, received into the Euxine, which appears scarcely equal to such an accession of waters.

[78] The provinces of the Danube soon acquired the general appellation of Illyricum, or the Illyrian frontier, [79] and were esteemed the most warlike of the empire; but they deserve to be more particularly considered under the names of Rhaetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Dacia, Maesia, Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece.
[Footnote 78: Tournefort, Voyages en Grece et Asie Mineure, lettre xviii.] [Footnote 79: The name of Illyricum originally belonged to the sea-coast of the Adriatic, and was gradually extended by the Romans from the Alps to the Euxine Sea.

See Severini Pannonia, l.i.c.