§11Ἰλλυριοὺς Ἕλληνες ἡγοῦνται τοὺς ὑπέρ τε Μακεδονίαν καὶ Θρᾴκην ἀπὸ Χαόνων καὶ Θεσπρωτῶν ἐπὶ ποταμὸν Ἴστρον.
The Greeks consider the Illyrians to be those who dwell beyond Macedonia and Thrace, from the Chaonians and Thesprotians to the river Ister.
καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐστὶ τῆς χώρας τὸ μῆκος, εὖρος δʼ ἐκ Μακεδόνων τε καὶ Θρᾳκῶν τῶν ὀρείων ἐπὶ Παιονας καὶ τὸν Ἰόνιον καὶ τὰ πρόποδα τῶν Ἄλπεων.
And this is the length of the country, while its width is from the Macedonians and the mountainous Thracians to the Paeonians, the Ionian Sea, and the foothills of the Alps.
καὶ ἔστι τὸ μὲν εὖρος ἡμερῶν πέντε, τὸ δὲ μῆκος τριάκοντα, καθὰ καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν εἴρηται.
Its width is five days' journey and its length thirty days', as has also been stated by the Greeks.
Ῥωμαίων δὲ τὴν χώραν μετρησαμένων ἔστιν ὑπὲρ ἑξακισχιλίους σταδίους τὸ μῆκος, καὶ τὸ πλάτος ἀμφὶ τοὺς χιλίους καὶ διακοσίους.
But according to the measurements made by the Romans, the length of the country is over six thousand stades, and its width is about one thousand two hundred.
§12φασὶ δὲ τὴν μὲν χώραν ἐπώνυμον Ἰλλυριοῦ τοῦ Πολυφήμου γενέσθαι· Πολυφήμῳ γὰρ τῷ Κύκλωπι καὶ Γαλατείᾳ Κελτὸν καὶ Ἰλλυριὸν καὶ Γάλαν παῖδας ὄντας ἐξορμῆσαι Σικελίας, καὶ ἄρξαι τῶν διʼ αὐτοὺς Κελτῶν καὶ Ἰλλυριῶν καὶ Γαλατῶν λεγομένων.
They say that the country received its name from Illyrius, the son of Polyphemus; for Celtus, Illyrius, and Galas, who were the children of Polyphemus the Cyclops and Galatea, set out from Sicily and ruled over the peoples who, because of them, are called Celts, Illyrians, and Galatians.
καὶ τόδε μοι μάλιστα, πολλὰ μυθευόντων ἕτερα πολλῶν, ἀρέσκει.
And this story especially pleases me, though many others tell many different myths.
Ἰλλυριῷ δὲ παῖδας Ἐγχέλεα καὶ Αὐταριέα καὶ Δάρδανον καὶ Μαῖδον καὶ Ταύλαντα καὶ Περραιβὸν γενέσθαι, καὶ θυγατέρας Παρθὼ καὶ Δαορθὼ καὶ Δασσαρὼ καὶ ἑτέρας, ὅθεν εἰσὶ Ταυλάντιοί τε καὶ Περραιβοὶ καὶ Ἐγχέλεες καὶ Αὐταριεῖς καὶ Δάρδανοι καὶ Παρθηνοὶ καὶ Δασσαρήτιοι καὶ Δάρσιοι.
To Illyrius were born as sons Encheleus, Autarieus, Dardanus, Maedus, Taulas, and Perraebus, and daughters Partho, Daortho, Dassaro, and others, from whom arose the Taulantians, Perraebians, Encheleans, Autariates, Dardanians, Parthenians, Dassaretians, and Daorsians.
Αὐταριεῖ δὲ αὐτῷ Παννόνιον ἡγοῦνται παῖδα ἢ Παίονα γενέσθαι, καὶ Σκορδίσκον Παίονι καὶ Τριβαλλόν, ὧν ὁμοίως τὰ ἔθνη παρώνυμα εἶναι.
They believe that Pannonius, or Paeon, was born to Autarieus himself, and Scordiscus and Triballus to Paeon, after whom likewise the nations are named.
καὶ τάδε μὲν τοῖς ἀρχαιολογοῦσι μεθείσθω, §13γένη δʼ ἔστιν Ἰλλυριῶν, ὡς ἐν τοσῇδε χώρᾳ, πολλά.
But let these matters be left to the antiquarians, and there are many tribes of Illyrians, as is natural in so great a country.
καὶ περιώνυμα ἔτι νῦν, χώραν νεμόμενα πολλὴν, Σκορδίσκων καὶ Τριβαλλῶν, οἳ ἐς τοσοῦτον ἀλλήλους πολέμῳ διέφθειραν ὡς Τριβαλλῶν εἴ τι ὑπόλοιπον ἦν ἐς Γέτας ὑπὲρ Ἴστρον φυγεῖν, καὶ γένος ἀκμάσαν μέχρι Φιλίππου τε καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου νῦν ἔρημον καὶ ἀνώνυμον τοῖς τῇδε εἶναι, Σκορδίσκους δὲ ἀσθενεστάτους ἀπὸ τοῦδε γενομένους ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ὕστερον ὅμοια παθεῖν καὶ ἐς τὰς νήσους τοῦ αὐτοῦ ποταμοῦ φυγεῖν, σὺν χρόνῳ δέ τινας ἐπανἐλθεῖν καὶ Παιόνων ἐσχατιαῖς παροικῆσαι· ὅθεν ἔστι καὶ νῦν Σκορδίσκων γένος ἐν Παίοσιν.
Even now, those of the Scordisci and Triballi, who occupy a large territory, are very famous; they destroyed each other in war to such an extent that if any remnant of the Triballi was left, it fled to the Getae beyond the Ister, and this tribe, which flourished until the times of Philip and Alexander, is now desolate and nameless to the people of those parts; while the Scordisci, having become extremely weak from this conflict, were later treated in the same way by the Romans and fled to the islands of the same river, but in time some returned and settled on the frontiers of the Paeonians, whence there is even now a tribe of Scordisci among the Paeonians.
τῷ δʼ αὐτῷ τρόπῳ καὶ Ἀρδιαῖοι τὰ θαλάσσια ὄντες ἄριστοι πρὸς Αὐταριέων ἀρίστων ὄντων τὰ κατὰ γῆν, πολλὰ βλάψαντες αὐτούς, ὅμως ἐφθάρησαν.
In the same manner, the Ardiaei also, who were the best at sea, though they inflicted many injuries upon the Autariates, who were the best on land, were nevertheless destroyed by them.
καὶ ναυτικοὶ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖς Ἀρδιαίοις ἐγένοντο Λιβυρνοί, γένος ἕτερον Ἰλλυριῶν, οἳ τὸν Ἰόνιον καὶ τὰς νήσους ἐλῄστευον ναυσὶν ὠκείαις τε καὶ κούφαις, ὅθεν ἔτι νῦν Ῥωμαῖοι τὰ κοῦφα καὶ ὀξέα δίκροτα Λιβυρνίδας προσαγορεύουσιν.
After the Ardiaei, the Liburnians, another tribe of Illyrians, became a seafaring people, who plundered the Ionian Sea and the islands with swift and light vessels, whence even now the Romans call light and fast double-banked vessels Liburnians.