[77] By the "Adriatic" is meant the part of the Mediterranean which lies between Africa on the south, Sicily and Italy on the west, and Greece and Epirus on the east; Procopius' "Ionian Gulf" is therefore our Adriatic Sea.
[78] Now the Gulf of Saros, north and west of the Gallipoli peninsula.
[79] i.e. to the north-west. Procopius means that the Adriatic should incline at its upper end more toward the left (the west) in order to form the isthmus which he is surprised to find lacking.
[80] Hydruntum; cf. Book III. i. 9, note.
[81] Modern Croatia.
[82] Modern Belgrade.
[83] Procopius seems to have erred: Liguria, as well as Aemilia (below), was south of the Po. Cf. chap. [xii. 4], where Liguria is represented as extending to the Alps.
[84] Whose capital was Placentia (Piacenzo).