Home1778 Edition

PANNONIA

Volume 8 · 79 words · 1778 Edition

(Pliny, Strabo, Dio), an extensive country of Europe, having the Danube on the north, Dalmatia on the south, Noricum on the west, and Moesia on the east. It is divided in superior and inferior, (Ptolemy, Dio). The common boundary between both were the river Arabo and mount Cetius, having the superior to the west, and the inferior on the east side. This division is thought to be no older than the times of the Antonines. Pannonicus the epithet, (Martial).