Liburnia

, now Croatia , a country of Illyricum, between Istria and Dalmatia, whence a colony came to settle in Apulia, in Italy. There were at Rome a number of men whom the magistrates employed as public heralds, who were called Liburni , probably from being originally of Liburnian extraction. Some ships of a light construction but with strong beaks were also called Liburnian . Pro pert i us , bk. 2 , poem 11, li. 44 .— Juvenal , satire 4, li. 75 .— Martial , bk. 1 , ltr. 50 , li. 33 .— Horace , bk. 1 , ode 37, li. 30 ; Epode 1, li. 1 .— Lucan , bk. 3 , li. 534 .— Pliny the Younger , bk. 6 , ltr. 16 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 3 .— Strabo , bk. 7 .— Ptolemy , bk. 2 , ch. 17 .