Savus
- a river in Pannonia, a tributary of the Danube, now the Save, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 192; Just. 32, 3, 8; Sex. Ruf. Brev. 7 fin.—Form Saus, Plin. 3, 25, 28, § 147.—Hence, adj.: Sā-vensis, e, lying upon or adjoining the Save: regis, Sex. Ruf. Brev. 7 fin.
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SAVUS(Σάοςor Σάουος: Save), a great and navigable tributary of the Danube; it has its sources in the Carnian Alps (Plin. Nat. 3.28; Jornand. de Reb. Get. 56), and, flowing in an eastern direction almost parallel with the more northern Dravus, reaches the Danube at Singidunum. A portion of its upper course forms the boundary between Noricum and Pannonia, but the whole of the lower part of the river belongs to the southern part of Pannonia, and some of the most important towns of that country, as Siscia, Servitium, and Sirmium, were situated on its banks. (Strab. 4. p. 207, 7. p. 314; Appian, 3.22; Ptol. 2.16.1, 3.9.1; Justin (Justin. 32.3, 8, 16; Claud. de Laud. Stilich. 2.192.)
[L.S]Now the Save or Sau; a navigable tributary of the Danube, which rises in the Carnic Alps, forms first the boundary between Noricum and Italy, afterwards between Pannonia and Illyria, and falls into the Danube near Singidunum (Pliny H. N. iii. 139).