Dyrrhăchium

, now Durazzo , a large city of Macedonia, bordering on the Adriatic sea, founded by a colony from Corcyra, B.C. 623. It was anciently called Epidammus , which the Romans, considering it of ominous meaning, changed ♦ into Dyrrhachium . Cicero met with a ♥ favourable reception there during his exile. Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 3 .— Pausanias , bk. 6 , ch. 10 .— Plutarch. — Cicero , bk. 3 , Letters to Atticus , ltr. 22 . ♦ ‘intlo’ replaced with ‘into’ ♥ ‘favour a be’ replaced with ‘favourable’