siscia

They roamed far and wide towards Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia, and fearful tales were told of their savage valour and cruel customs. Their chief place of arms was the strong Segestica or Siscia at the point where the Kulpa falls into the Save.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

In the mean while, Theodosius himself advanced at the head of a brave and disciplined army, to encounter his unworthy rival, who, after the siege of Æmona, had fixed his camp in the neighborhood of Siscia, a city of Pannonia, strongly fortified by the broad and rapid stream of the Save. Part IV

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3

Geminus, although expelled from Siscia, recovered the Pannonians by a few battles; and Valerius Messala overthrew the Salassi and the rest who had joined them in rebellion. Against the Dalmatians first Agrippa and then Caesar also made campaigns.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus - Dio's Rome, Volume 3 : An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During : The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, : Elagabalus and Alexander Severus

In the Danubian lands only one town can even be supposed to preserve a few of its Roman streets. In all the once great cities of that region, Sirmium and Siscia, Poetovio and Celeia and Emona, they have wholly gone; you may walk across the sites to-day and seek them in vain in modern street or hedgerow or lane.

F. (Francis) Haverfield - Ancient Town-Planning

He carried by assault the important town of Siscia; made an attack on the city of Sirmium, which lay in the rear of the Imperial camp, attempted to force a passage over the Save into the eastern provinces of Illyricum; and cut in pieces a numerous detachment, which he had allured into the narrow passes of Adarne.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

But when they harassed him as he advanced to Siscia, he became angry, burned their land, and took all the booty he could. When he drew near the city the natives for a moment listened to their rulers and made terms with him and gave hostages, but afterward shut their gates and accepted a state of siege.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus - Dio's Rome, Volume 3 : An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During : The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, : Elagabalus and Alexander Severus

They roamed far and wide towards Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia, and fearful tales were told of their savage valour and cruel customs. Their chief place of arms was the strong Segestica or Siscia at the point where the Kulpa falls into the Save.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book IV : The Revolution