The Roman Map of Britain Danouius for Deuonius, Locus Deuoni on the Don of Aberdeen

Panouius vars. Panononius, Panouis (R&C 230) next

    Danouius is surely of the base Danuvius (Celtic *Dânouios) Danube. Danoui (R&C 225) on the English River Don is the same. From its position in the list it would appear to be a northern Don. Candidates to consider are Dons of Aberdeen and Jarrow, and the Doon of Ayrshire. The Don of Jarrow can probably be eliminated since Locus Taua (R&C 232) is on the Tay, evidence that the cosmographer is still inventorying farther north. The Doon seems too far removed from the area of Roman presence.

    Surely later copyists were more familiar with the name of the Danube, and given the confusion between n and u such a result is not surprising. Ptolemy's Devana, a polis of the Taexali, and Devoni (R&C 215) make clear that Panouius must represent a Deuonius. This is the masculine counterpart to the feminine Deua, the Dee, which reaches the sea at Aberdeen. The site of the Locus Deuoni is probably Aberdeen, known for its history of flooding.

    The variant Panononius presents the possibility of dittography or an original Deuo-nouius. Novio- 'new' has been interpreted as 'fresh, green', and could be a word meaning 'green place'.