Rome, in the Illyrian Wars of 229 BCE and 219 BCE, had overrun the Illyrian settlements in the Neretva river valley and suppressed the piracy that had made the Adriatic unsafe.
The Dalmatians and …
"We cannot be certain of being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."
—G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America (1922)
