Candavia
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Candaviae Proper-name noun feminine nominative plural, Proper-name noun feminine vocative plural, Proper-name noun feminine genitive singular, Proper-name noun feminine dative singular of Candavia
- a mountainous district in Illyria, Caes. B. C. 3, 11; 3, 79; Sen. Ep. 31, 8; Plin. 3, 23, 26, § 145; Cic. Att. 3, 7, 3; Luc. 6, 331.
CANDA´VIA (Κανδαια, Hierosol. Itin.; Peut. Tab.: Elbassán), a mountain of Illyria. The Egnatian Way, commencing at Dyrrhachium, crossed this mountain, which lies between the sources of the river Genusus and the lake Lychnitis, and was called from this Via Candavia. (Strab. 7. p. 323.) Its distance from Dyrrhachium was 87 M. P. (Plin. Nat. 3.33; comp. Cic. ad Att. 3.7; Caes. B.C. 3.79; Sen. Ep. xxxi.) Colonel Leake (Northern Greece, vol. 1. p. 343, 3. p. 280) found its bearing N. 23 W. by compass.
[E.B.J](Κανδαοΰια), Candavii Montes. The mountains separating Illyricum from Macedonia, across which the Via Egnatia ran.