Adria

, Adriānum , or Adriatĭcum mare , a sea lying between Illyricum and Italy, now called the gulf of Venice, first made known to the Greeks by the discoveries of the Phocæans. Hero dot us , bk. 1 .— Horace , bk. 1 , ode 33; bk. 3 , odes 3 & 9.— Catullus , poems 4, 6.