*si/r: mega/lh po/lis kai\ polua/nqrwpos kai\ prwteu/ousa tou= *)illuriw=n e)/qnous.
The Suda's 'Sir', otherwise unattested, is evidently a foreshortened version of Sirmion/Sirmium (present-day Sremska Mitrovica in
Serbia); Barrington Atlas map 21 grid B5.
[1] Originally settled by Illyrians (and Celts). Contrast the characterisation in
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.: 'a city of [the] Paionians'. NF: it is only 'Illyrian' in the wider Roman usage of Illyricum, as it lay in the later province of Pannonia, among the lands of the Skordiskoi/Scordisci.
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