Orĭcum

, or Orĭcus , a town of Epirus, on the Ionian sea, founded by a colony from Colchis, according to Pliny. It was called Dardania , because Helenus and And rom ache, natives of Troy or Dardania, reigned over the country after the Trojan war. It had a celebrated harbour, and was greatly esteemed by the Romans on account of its situation, but it was not well defended. The tree which produces the turpentine grew there in abundance. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 10 , li. 136 .— Livy , bk. 24 , ch. 40 .— Pliny , bk. 2 , ch. 89 .— Cæsar , Civil War , bk. 3 , ch. 1 , . — Lucan , bk. 3 , li. 187 .