(Ptolemy, Tacitus); a Roman province, situated between the Danube on the north, and thus separated from ancient Germany; the Alpes Norice on the south; the river Aenus on the west, which separates it from Vindelicia; and Mons Cetius on the east, which divides it from Pannonia. Now containing a great part of Austria, all Saltzburg, Stiria, and Carinthia. It was anciently a kingdom under its own kings (Cesfar, Vel- licius, Suetonius). Norici the people, subdued by Tiberius under Augustus, as allies of the Pannonii (Dio, Velleius). Tacitus reckons Noricum among those provinces which were governed by procurators, officers sent by the emperors to receive and dispose of the public revenue according to order. It was divided into two provinces, but at what time uncertain; supposed as low down as Dioclesian and Constantine, viz. the Noricum Ripense, running along the south side of the Danube; and the Noricum Mediterraneum, extending towards the Alps. How far each of these extended in breadth does not appear: all the account we have of the matter being from Sextus Rufus, and the Notitia Imperii Occidentalis. Anciently a country famous for its iron and steel (Horace); as is Stiria at this day, a part of Noricum. A climate cold and more sparingly fruitful (Solinus).