an ancient country extending along the eastcoast of the Adriatic sea,but Shakespeare uses it as the name of an imaginary,picturesque Mediterraneancountry伊利里亞，亞德利亞海東岸一古國(guó)名，約當(dāng)今之南斯拉夫，莎士比亞借來(lái)用做一個(gè)假想的美麗如畫(huà)的地中海國(guó)家之名。 △Tw.1. 1.0.s.d.:“Enter Orsino,Duke of Illyr-ia，”伊利里亞公爵奧西諾上。