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Thus far have I treated of the position and the wonders of the earth, of the waters, the stars, and the proportion of the universe and its dimensions. I shall now proceed to describe its individual parts; although indeed we may with reason look upon the task as of an infinite nature, and one not to be rashly commenced upon without incurring censure. And yet, on the other hand, there is nothing which ought less to require an apology, if it is only considered how far from surprising it is that a mere mortal cannot be acquainted with everything. I shall therefore not follow any single author, but shall employ, in relation to each subject, such writers as I shall look upon as most worthy of credit. For, indeed, it is the characteristic of nearly all of them, that they display the greatest care and accuracy in the description of the countries in which they respectively flourished; so that by doing this, I shall neither have to blame nor contradict any one.
The names of the different places will here be simply given, and as briefly as possible; the account of their celebrity, and the events which have given rise thereto, being deferred to a more appropriate occasion; for it must be remembered that I am here speaking of the earth as a whole, and I wish to be understood as using the names without any reference whatever to their celebrity, and as though the places themselves were in their infancy, and had not as yet acquired any fame through great events. The name is men- tioned, it is true, but only as forming a part of the world and the system of the universe.
The whole globe is divided into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Our description commences where the sun sets and at the Straits of Gades [Note], where the Atlantic ocean, bursting
in, is poured forth into the inland seas. As it makes its entrance from that side, Africa is on the right hand and Europe on the left; Asia lies between them [Note]; the boundaries being the rivers Tanais [Note] and Nile. The Straits of the ocean, of which I have just spoken, extend fifteen miles in length and five [Note] in breadth, measured from the village of Mellaria [Note] in Spain to the Album Promontorium [Note] or White Promontory in Africa, as we learn from Turranius Gracilis, who was born in that vicinity. Titus Livius and Cornelius Nepos however have stated the breadth, where it is least, to be seven miles, and where greatest, ten; from so small a mouth as this does so immense an expanse of water open upon us! Nor is our astonishment diminished by the fact of its being of great depth; for, instead of that, there are numerous breakers and shoals, white with foam, to strike the mariner with alarm. From this circumstance it is, that many have called this spot the threshold of The Inland Sea.
At the narrowest part of the Straits, there are mountains placed to form barriers to the entrance on either side, Abyla [Note] in Africa, and Calpe [Note] in Europe, the boundaries formerly of the labours of Hercules [Note]. Hence it is that the inhabitants have called them the Columns of that god; they
also believe that they were dug through by him; upon which the sea, which was before excluded, gained admission, and so changed the face of nature.
I shall first then speak of Europe, the foster-mother of that people which has conquered all other nations, and itself by far the most beauteous portion of the earth. Indeed, many persons have, not without reason [Note], considered it, not as a third part only of the earth, but as equal to all the rest, looking upon the whole of our globe as divided into two parts only, by a line drawn from the river Tanais to the Straits of Gades. The ocean, after pouring the waters of the Atlantic through the inlet which I have here described, and, in its eager progress, overwhelming all the lands which have had to dread its approach, skirts with its winding course the shores of those parts which offer a more effectual resistance, hollowing out the coast of Europe especially into numerous bays, among which there are four Gulfs that are more particularly remarkable. The first of these begins at Calpe, which I have previously mentioned, the most distant mountain of Spain; and bends, describing an immense curve, as far as Locri and the Promontory of Bruttium [Note].
The first land situate upon this Gulf is that which is called the Farther Spain or Bætica [Note]; next to which, beginning at the frontier town of Urgi [Note], is the Nearer, or Tarraconensian [Note]
Spain, extending as far as the chain of the Pyrenees. The Farther Spain is divided lengthwise into two provinces, Lusitania [Note] and Bætica, the former stretching along the northern side of the latter, and being divided from it by the river Ana [Note]. The source of this river is in the district of Laminium [Note], in the Nearer Spain. It first spreads out into a number of small lakes, and then again contracts itself into a narrow channel, or entirely disappears under ground [Note], and after frequently disappearing and again coming to light, finally dis- charges itself into the Atlantic Ocean. Tarraconensian Spain lies on one side, contiguous to the Pyrenees, running down- wards along the sides of that chain, and, stretching across from the Iberian Sea to the Gallic ocean [Note], is separated from Bætica and Lusitania by Mount Solorius [Note], the chains of the Oretani [Note] and the Carpetani [Note], and that of the Astures [Note].
Bætica, so called from the river which divides it in the middle, excels all the other provinces in the richness of its cultivation and the peculiar fertility and beauty of its vegetation.
It consists of four jurisdictions, those of Gades [Note], of Corduba [Note], of Astigi [Note], and of Hispali [Note]. The total number of its towns is 175; of these nine are colonies [Note], and eight muni-
cipal towns [Note]; twenty-nine have been long since presented with the old Latin rights [Note]; six are free towns [Note], three federate [Note], and 120 tributary.
In this district, the things that more especially deserve notice, or are more easily explained in the Latin tongue, are the following, beginning at the river Ana, along the line of the seashore; the town of Onoba, surnamed Æstuaria [Note]; the rivers Luxia and Urium [Note], flowing through this territory between the Ana and the Bætis; the Marian [Note] Mountains; the river Bætis; the coast of Corum [Note], with its winding bay; opposite
to which is Gades, of which we shall have occasion to speak among the islands [Note]. Next comes the Promontory of Juno [Note], and the port of Bæsippo [Note]; the towns of Bœlo [Note] and Mellaria [Note], at which latter begin the Straits of the Atlantic; Carteia [Note], called by the Greeks Tartessos [Note]; and the mountain of Calpe.
Along the coast of the inland sea [Note] is the town of Barbesula [Note] with its river; also Salduba [Note]; the town of Suel [Note]; and then Malaca [Note], with its river, one of the federate towns. Next to this comes Mænoba [Note], with its river; then Sexifirmum [Note], surnamed
Julium; Selambina [Note]; Abdera [Note]; and Murci [Note], which is at the boundary of Bætica. M. Agrippa supposed that all this coast was peopled by colonists of Punic origin. Beyond the Anas, and facing the Atlantic, is the country of the Bastuli [Note] and the Turditani. M. Varro informs us, that the Iberians, the Persians, the Phœnicians, the Celts, and the Carthaginians spread themselves over the whole of Spain; that the name "Lusitania" is derived from the games (lusus) of Father Bacchus, or the fury (lyssa [Note]) of his frantic attendants, and that Pan [Note] was the governor of the whole of it. But the traditions respecting Hercules [Note] and Pyrene, as well as Saturn, I conceive to be fabulous in the highest degree.
The Bætis does not rise, as some writers have asserted, near the town of Mentisa [Note], in the province of Tarraco, but in the Tugiensian Forest [Note]; and near it rises the river Tader [Note], which waters the territory of Carthage [Note]. At Ilorcum [Note] it
turns away from the Funeral Pile [Note] of Scipio; then taking a sweep to the left, it falls into the Atlantic Ocean, giving its name to this province: at its source it is but small, though during its course it receives many other streams, which it deprives as well of their waters as their renown. It first enters Bætica in Ossigita-nia [Note], and glides gently, with a smooth current, past many towns situate on either side of its banks.
Between this river and the sea-shore the most celebrated places inland are Segida [Note], also surnamed Augurina; Julia [Note], called Fidentia; Urgao [Note] or Alba, Ebora [Note] or Cerealis, Iliberri [Note] or Liberini, Ilipula [Note] or Laus, Artigi [Note] or Julienses, Vesci [Note] or Faventia, Singili [Note], Attegua [Note], Arialdunum, Agla Minor [Note], Bæbro [Note], Castra Vinaria [Note], Cisimbrium [Note], Hippo
Nova or New Hippo [Note], Ilurco [Note], Osca [Note], Escua [Note], Sucubo [Note], Nuditanum, Old Tuati [Note]; all which towns are in that part of Bastitania which extends towards the sea, but in the jurisdiction [Note] of Corduba. In the neighbourhood of the river itself is Ossigi [Note], also surnamed Laconicum, Iliturgi [Note] or Forum Julium, Ipasturgi [Note] or Triumphale, Setia, and, fourteen miles inland, Obulco [Note], which is also called Pontificense.
Next to these comes Epora [Note], a federate town, Sacili [Note] Martialium, and Onoba [Note]. On the right bank is Corduba, a Roman colony, surnamed Patricia [Note]; here the Bætis first becomes navigable. There are also the towns of Carbula
and Detunda [Note], and the river Singulis [Note], which falls into the Bætis on the same side.
The towns in the jurisdiction of Hispalis are the following: Celti, Arua [Note], Canama [Note], Evia, Ilipa [Note], surnamed Illa, and Italica [Note]. On the left of the river is the colony of Hispalis [Note] named Romuliensis, and, on the opposite side [Note], the town of Osset [Note], surnamed Julia Constantia, Vergentum, or Juli Genius [Note], Orippo, Caura [Note], Siarum, and the river Menoba [Note], which enters the Bætis on its right bank. Between the æstuaries of the Bætis lie the towns of Nebrissa [Note], surnamed Veneria, and of Colobona [Note]. The colonies are, Asta [Note], which is also called Regia, and, more inland, that of Asido [Note], surnamed Cæsariana.
The river Singulis, discharging itself into the Bætis at the place already mentioned, washes the colony of Astigi [Note], sur-
named Augusta Firma, at which place it becomes navigable. The other colonies in this jurisdiction which are exempt from tribute are Tucci, surnamed Augusta Gemella [Note], Itucci called Virtus Julia [Note], Attubi or Claritas Julia [Note], Urso [Note] or Genua Urbanorum; and among them in former times Munda [Note], which was taken with the son of Pompey. The free towns are Old Astigi [Note] and Ostippo [Note]; the tributary towns are Callet, Callecula, Castra Gemina, the Lesser Ilipula, Merucra, Sacrana, Obulcula [Note], and Oningis. As you move away from the sea-coast, near where the river Menoba is navigable, you find, at no great distance, the Alontigiceli and the Alostigi [Note].
The country which extends from the Bætis to the river Anas, beyond the districts already described, is called Bæturia, and is divided into two parts and the same number of nations; the Celtici [Note], who border upon Lusitania, in the ju-
risdiction of Hispalis, and the Turduli, who dwell on the verge [Note] of Lusitania and Tarraconensis, and are under the protection of the laws of Corduba. It is evident that the Celtici have sprung from the Celtiberi, and have come from Lusitania, from their religious rites, their language, and the names of their towns, which in Bætica are distinguished by the following epithets [Note], which have been given to them. Seria has received the surname of Fama Julia [Note], Nertobriga that of Concordia Julia [Note], Segida that of Restituta Julia [Note], and Contributa [Note] that of Julia. What is now Curiga was formerly Ucultuniacum, Constantia Julia [Note] was Laconimurgis, the present Fortunales were the Tereses [Note], and the Emanici were the Callenses [Note]. Besides these, there are in Celtica the towns of Acinippo [Note], Arunda [Note], Aruci [Note], Turobriga, Lastigi, Salpesa, Sæpone, and Serippo.
The other Bæturia, which we have mentioned, is inhabited by the Turduli, and, in the jurisdiction of Corduba, has some towns which are by no means inconsiderable; Arsa [Note],
Mellaria [Note], Mirobriga [Note], and Sisapo [Note], in the district of Osintias.
To the jurisdiction of Gades belongs Regina, with Roman citizens; and Læpia, Ulia [Note], Carisa [Note] surnamed Aurelia, Urgia [Note] or Castrum Julium, likewise called Cæsaris Salutariensis, all of which enjoy the Latian rights. The tributary towns are Besaro, Belippo [Note], Barbesula, Lacippo, Bæsippo, Callet, Cappacum, Oleastro, Ituci, Brana, Lacibi, Saguntia [Note], and Audorisæ.
M. Agrippa has also stated the whole length of this province to be 475 miles [Note], and its breadth 257; but this was at a time when its boundaries extended to Carthage [Note], a circumstance which has often caused great errors in calculations; which are generally the result either of changes effected in the limits of provinces, or of the fact that in the reckoning of distances the length of the miles has been arbitrarily increased or diminished. In some parts too the sea has been long making encroachments upon the land, and in others again the shores have advanced; while the course of rivers in this place has become more serpentine, in that more direct. And then, besides, some writers begin their measurements at one place,
and some at another, and so proceed in different directions; and hence the result is, that no two accounts agree.
(2.) At the present day the length of Bætica, from the town of Castulo [Note], on its frontier, to Gades is 250 miles, and from Murci, which lies on the sea-coast, twenty-five miles more. The breadth, measured from the coast of Carteia, is 234 miles. Who is there that can entertain the belief that Agrippa, a man of such extraordinary diligence, and one who bestowed so much care on his subject, when he proposed to place before the eyes of the world a survey of that world, could be guilty of such a mistake as this, and that too when seconded by the late emperor the divine Augustus ? For it was that emperor who completed the Portico [Note] which had been begun by his sister, and in which the survey was to be kept, in conformity with the plan and descriptions of M. Agrippa.
The ancient form of the Nearer Spain, like that of many other provinces, is somewhat changed, since the time when Pompey the Great, upon the trophies which he erected in the Pyrenees, testified that 877 towns, from the Alps to the borders of the Farther Spain, had been reduced to subjection by him. The whole province is now divided into seven jurisdictions, those of Carthage [Note], of Tarraco, of Cæsar Augusta [Note], of
Clunia [Note], of Asturica [Note], of Lucus [Note], and of the Bracari [Note]. To these are to be added the islands, which will be described on another occasion, as also 293 states which are dependent on others; besides which the province contains 179 towns. Of these, twelve are colonies, thirteen, towns with the rights of Roman citizens, eighteen with the old Latian rights, one confederate, and 135 tributary.
The first people that we come to on the coast are the Bastuli; after whom, proceeding according to the order which I shall follow, as we go inland, there are the Mentesani, the Oretani, and the Carpetani on the Tagus, and next to them the Vaccæi, the Vectones, and the Celtiberian Arevaci. The towns nearest to the coast are Urci, and Barea [Note] included in Bætica, the district of Mavitania, next to it Deitania, and then Contestania, and the colony of Carthago Nova; from the Promontory of which, known as the Promontorium Saturni [Note], to the city of Cæsarea [Note] in Mauritania, the passage is a distance of 187 miles. The remaining objects worthy of mention on the coast are the river Tader [Note], and the free colony of Ilici [Note], whence the Ilicitanian Gulf [Note] derives its name; to this colony the Icositani are subordinate.
We next have Lucentum [Note], holding Latian rights; Dianium [Note], a tributary town; the river Sucro [Note], and in former times a town of the same name, forming the frontier of Contestania.
Next is the district of Edetania, with the delightful expanse of a lake [Note] before it, and extending backward to Celtiberia. Valentia [Note], a colony, is situate three miles from the sea, after which comes the river Turium [Note], and Saguntum [Note] at the same distance, a town of Roman citizens famous for its fidelity, the river Uduba [Note], and the district of the Ilergaones [Note]. The Iberus [Note], a river enriched by its commerce, takes its rise in the country of the Cantabri, not far from the town of Juliobriga [Note], and flows a distance of 450 miles; 260 of which, from the town of Varia [Note] namely, it is available for the purposes of navigation. From this river the name of Iberia has been given by the Greeks to the whole of Spain.
Next comes the district of Cossetania, the river Subi [Note], and the colony of Tarraco, which was built by the Scipios as Carthage [Note] was by the Carthaginians. Then the district of the Ilergetes, the town of Subur [Note], and the river Rubricatum [Note], beyond which begin the Laletani and the Indigetes [Note]. Behind these, in the order in which they will be mentioned,
going back from the foot of the Pyrenees, are the Ausetani [Note], the Lacetani [Note], and along the Pyrenees, the Cerretani [Note], next to whom are the Vascones [Note]. On the coast is the colony of Barcino [Note], surnamed Faventia; Bætulo [Note] and Iluro [Note], towns with Roman citizens; the river Larnum [Note], Blandæ [Note], the river Alba [Note]; Emporiæ [Note], a city consisting of two parts, one peopled by the original inhabitants, the other by the Greek descendants of the Phocæans; and the river Ticher [Note]. From this to the Venus Pyrenæa [Note], on the other side of the Promontory, is a distance of forty miles.
I shall now proceed to give an account of the more remarkable things in these several jurisdictions, in addition to those which have been already mentioned. Forty-three different peoples are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Tarraco: of these the most famous are—holding the rights of Roman citizens, the Dertusani [Note] and the Bisgargitani; enjoying Latian rights, the Ausetani, and the Cerretani, both Julian and Augustan, the Edetani [Note], the Gerundenses [Note], the
Gessorienses [Note], and the Teari [Note], also called Julienses. Among the tributaries are the Aquicaldenses [Note], the Onenses, and the Bæculonenses [Note].
Cæsar Augusta, a free colony, watered by the river Iberus, on the site of the town formerly called Salduba, is situate in the district of Edetania, and is the resort of fifty-five nations. Of these there are, with the rights of Roman citizens, the Bellitani [Note], the Celsenses [Note], a former colony, the Calagurritani [Note], surnamed the Nassici, the Ilerdenses [Note], of the nation of the Surdaones, near whom is the river Sicoris, the Oscenses [Note] in the district of Vescitania, and the Turiasonenses [Note]. Of those enjoying the rights of the ancient Latins, there are the Cascantenses [Note] the Ergavicenses [Note], the Graccuritani [Note], the Leo-
nicenses [Note], and the Osicerdenses; of federate states, there are the Tarragenses [Note]; and of tributaries, the Arcobrigenses [Note], the Andologenses [Note], the Aracelitani [Note], the Bursaonenses [Note], the Calagurritani [Note], who are also surnamed the Fibularenses, the Complutenses [Note], the Carenses [Note], the Cincenses [Note], the Cortonenses, the Damanitani [Note], the Larnenses [Note], the Lursenses [Note], the Lumberitani [Note], the Lacetani, the Lubienses, the Pompelonenses [Note], and the Segienses.
Sixty-five different nations resort to Carthage [Note], besides the inhabitants of the islands. Of the Accitanian [Note] colony, there are the Gemellenses, and the town of Libisosona [Note], surnamed Foroaugustana, to both of which have been granted Italian [Note] rights. Of the colony of Salaria [Note], there are the people of the following towns, enjoying the rights of ancient Latium: the Castulonenses, also called the Cæsari Venales, the Sætabitani [Note] or Augustani, and the Valerienses [Note]. The best known among the tributaries are the Alabanenses [Note], the Bastitani [Note], the Consaburrenses [Note], the Dianenses [Note], the Egelestani [Note],
the Ilorcitani [Note], the Laminitani, the Mentesani [Note], both those called Oritani and those called Bastuli, and the Oretani who are surnamed Germani [Note], the people of Segobriga [Note] the capital of Celtiberia, those of Toletum [Note] the capital of Carpetania, situate on the river Tagus, and after them the Viatienses and the Virgilienses [Note].
To the jurisdiction of Clunia [Note] the Varduli contribute fourteen nations, of whom we need only particularize the Albanenses [Note], the Turmodigi [Note], consisting of four tribes, among which are the Segisamonenses [Note] and the Segisamaiulienses. To the same jurisdiction belong the Carietes [Note] and the Vennenses with five states, among which are the Velienses. Thither too resort the Pelendones of the Celtiberians, in four different nations, among whom the Numantini [Note] were especially famous. Also, among the eighteen states of the Vaccæi, there are the Intercatienses [Note], the Pallantini [Note], the Lacobrigenses, and the Caucenses [Note]. But among the seven
peoples belonging to the Cantabri, Juliobriga [Note] is the only place worthy of mention; and of the ten states of the Autrigones, Tritium and Virovesca [Note]. The river Areva [Note] gives its name to the Arevaci; of whom there are six towns, Segontia [Note] and Uxama [Note], names which are frequently given to other places, as also Segovia [Note] and Nova Augusta, Termes [Note], and Clunia itself, the frontier of Celtiberia. The remaining portion turns off towards the ocean, being occupied by the Varduli, already mentioned, and the Cantabri.
Next upon these touch the twenty-two nations of the Astures, who are divided into the Augustani [Note] and the Transmontani, with the magnificent city of Asturica. Among these we have the Cigurri [Note], the Pæsici, the Lancienses [Note], and the Zoëlæ [Note]. The total number of the free population amounts to 240,000 persons.
The jurisdiction of Lucus [Note] embraces, besides the Celtici and the Lebuni, sixteen different nations, but little known
and with barbarous names. The number however of the free population amounts to nearly 166,000.
In a similar manner the twenty-four states of the jurisdiction of the Bracari contain a population of 175,000, among whom, besides the Bracari [Note] themselves, we may mention, without wearying the reader, the Bibali, the Cœlerni, the Gallæci, the Hequæsi, the Limici, and the Querquerni.
The length of the Nearer Spain, from the Pyrenees to the frontier of Castulo, is 607 [Note] miles, and a little more if we follow the line of the coast; while its breadth, from Tarraco to the shore of Olarson [Note], is 307 [Note] miles. From the foot of the Pyrenees, where it is wedged in by the near approach of the two seas, it gradually expands until it touches the Farther Spain, and thereby acquires a width more than double [Note].
Nearly the whole of Spain abounds in mines [Note] of lead, iron,
copper, silver, and gold; in the Nearer Spain there is also found lapis specularis [Note]; in Bætica there is cinnabar. There are also quarries of marble. The Emperor Vespasianus Augustus, while still harassed by the storms that agitated the Roman state, conferred the Latian rights on the whole of Spain. The Pyrenean mountains divide Spain from Gaul, their extremities projecting into the two seas on either side.
That part of the Gallias which is washed by the inland sea [Note] is called the province of [Gallia] Narbonensis [Note], having formerly borne the name of Braccata [Note]. It is divided from Italy by the river Varus [Note], and by the range of the Alps, the great safeguards of the Roman Empire. From the remainder of Gaul, on the north, it is separated by the mountains Cebenna [Note] and Jura [Note]. In the cultivation of the soil, the manners and civilization of the inhabitants, and the extent of its wealth, it is surpassed by none of the provinces, and, in short, might be more truthfully described as a part of Italy than as a province. On the coast we have the district of the Sordones [Note], and more inland that of the Consuarani [Note]. The
rivers are the Tecum and the Vernodubrum [Note]. The towns are Illiberis [Note], the scanty remains of what was formerly a great city, and Ruscino [Note], a town with Latian rights. We then come to the river Atax [Note], which flows from the Pyrenees, and passes through the Rubrensian Lake [Note], the town of Narbo Martius, a colony of the tenth legion, twelve miles distant from the sea, and the rivers Arauris [Note] and Liria [Note]. The towns are otherwise but few in number, in consequence of the numerous lakes [Note] which skirt the sea-shore. We have Agatha [Note], formerly belonging to the Massilians, and the district of the Volcæ Tectosages [Note]; and there is the spot where Rhoda [Note], a Rhodian colony, formerly stood, from which the river takes its name of Rhodanus [Note]; a stream by far the most fertilizing of any in either of the Gallias. Descending from the Alps and rushing through lake Lemanus [Note], it carries along with it the sluggish Arar [Note], as well as the torrents of the Isara and the Druentia [Note], no less rapid than itself. Its two smaller mouths are called Libica [Note], one being the Spanish, and the
other the Metapinian mouth; the third and largest is called the Massiliotic [Note]. There are some authors who state that there was formerly a town called Heraclea [Note] at the mouth of the Rhodanus or Rhone.
Beyond this are the Canals [Note] leading out of the Rhone, a famous work of Caius Marius, and still distinguished by his name; the Lake of Mastramela [Note], the town of Maritima [Note] of the Avatici, and, above this, the Stony Plains [Note], memorable for the
battles of Hercules; the district of the Anatilii [Note], and more inland, that of the Desuviates [Note] and the Cavari. Again, close upon the sea, there is that of the Tricorii [Note], and inland, there are the Tricolli [Note], the Vocontii [Note], and the Segovellauni, and, after them, the Allobroges [Note].
On the coast is Massilia, a colony of Phocæan [Note] Greeks, and a federate [Note] city; we then have the Promontory of Zao [Note], the port of Citharista [Note], and the district of the Camatullici [Note]; then the Suelteri [Note], and above them the Verrucini [Note]. Again,
on the coast, we find Athenopolis [Note], belonging to the Massilians, Forum Julii [Note] Octavanorum, a colony, which is also called Pacensis and Classica, the river Argenteus [Note], which flows through it, the district of the Oxubii [Note] and that of the Ligauni [Note]; above whom are the Suetri [Note], the Quariates [Note] and the Adunicates [Note]. On the coast we have Antipolis [Note], a town with Latian rights, the district of the Deciates, and the river Varus, which proceeds from Mount Cema, one of the Alps.
The colonies in the interior are Arelate Sextanorum [Note], Beterræ Septimanorum [Note], and Arausio [Note] Secundanorum; Valentia [Note] in the territory of the Cavari, and Vienna [Note] in that of the Allobroges. The towns that enjoy Latian rights are Aquæ Sextiæ [Note] in the territory of the Saluvii, Avenio [Note] in that of the
Cavari, Apta Julia [Note] in that of the Volgientes, Alebece [Note] in that of the Reii Apollinares, Alba [Note] in that of the Helvi, and Augusta [Note] in that of the Tricastini, Anatilia, Aeria [Note], the Bormanni [Note], the Comaci, Cabellio [Note], Carcasum [Note] in the territory of the Volcæ Tectosages, Cessero [Note], Carpentoracte [Note] in the territory of the Memini, the Cenicenses [Note], the Cambolectri [Note], surnamed the Atlantici, Forum [Note] Voconi, Glanum Livi [Note], the Lutevani [Note], also called the Foroneronienses [Note], Nemausum [Note] in
the territory of the Arecomici, Piscenæ [Note], the Ruteni [Note], the Sanagenses [Note], the Tolosani [Note] in the territory of the Tectosages on the confines of Aquitania, the Tasconi [Note], the Tarusconienses [Note], the Umbranici [Note], Vasio [Note] and Lucus Augusti [Note], the two capitals of the federate state of the Vocontii. There are also nineteen towns of less note, as well as twenty-four belonging to the people of Nemausum. To this list [Note] the Emperor Galba added two tribes dwelling among the Alps, the Avantici [Note] and the Bodiontici, to whom belongs the town of Dinia [Note]. According to Agrippa the length of the province of Gallia Narbonensis is 370 miles, and its breadth 248 [Note].
Next comes Italy, and we begin with the Ligures [Note], after
whom we have Etruria, Umbria, Latium, where the mouths of the Tiber are situate, and Rome, the Capital of the world, sixteen miles distant from the sea. We then come to the coasts of the Volsci and of Campania, and the districts of Picenum, of Lucania, and of Bruttium, where Italy extends the farthest in a southerly direction, and projects into the [two] seas with the chain of the Alps [Note], which there forms pretty nearly the shape of a crescent. Leaving Bruttium we come to the coast of [Magna] Græcia, then the Salentini, the Pediculi, the Apuli, the Peligni, the Frentani, the Marrucini, the Vestini, the Sabini, the Picentes, the Galli, the Umbri, the Tusci, the Veneti, the Carni, the Iapydes, the Histri, and the Liburni.
I am by no means unaware that I might be justly accused of ingratitude and indolence, were I to describe thus briefly and in so cursory a manner the land which is at once the foster-child [Note] and the parent of all lands; chosen by the providence of the Gods to render even heaven itself more glorious [Note], to unite the scattered empires of the earth, to bestow a polish upon men's manners, to unite the discordant and uncouth dialects of so many different nations by the powerful ties of one common language, to confer the enjoyments of discourse and of civilization upon mankind, to become, in short, the mother-country of all nations of the Earth.
But how shall I commence this undertaking? So vast is the number of celebrated places (what man living could enumerate them all?), and so great the renown attached to each individual nation and subject, that I feel myself quite
at a loss. The city of Rome alone, which forms a portion of it, a face well worthy of shoulders so beauteous, how large a work would it require for an appropriate description! And then too the coast of Campania, taken singly by itself! so blest with natural beauties and opulence, that it is evident that when nature formed it she took a delight in accumulating all her blessings in a single spot—how am I to do justice to it? And then the climate, with its eternal freshness and so replete with health and vitality, the sereneness of the weather so enchanting, the fields so fertile, the hill sides so sunny, the thickets so free from every danger, the groves so cool and shady, the forests with a vegetation so varying and so luxuriant, the breezes descending from so many a mountain, the fruitfulness of its grain, its vines, and its olives so transcendent; its flocks with fleeces so noble, its bulls with necks so sinewy, its lakes recurring in never-ending succession, its numerous rivers and springs which refresh it with their waters on every side, its seas so many in number, its havens and the bosom of its lands opening everywhere to the commerce of all the world, and as it were eagerly stretching forth into the very midst of the waves, for the purpose of aiding as it were the endeavours of mortals!
For the present I forbear to speak of its genius, its manners, its men, and the nations whom it has conquered by eloquence and force of arms. The very Greeks themselves, a race fond in the extreme of expatiating on their own praises, have amply given judgment in its favour, when they named but a small part of it 'Magna Græcia [Note].' But we must be content to do on this occasion as we have done in our description of the heavens; we must only touch upon some of these points, and take notice of but a few of its stars. I only beg my readers to bear in mind that I am thus hasten-
ing on for the purpose of giving a general description of everything that is known to exist throughout the whole earth.
I may premise by observing that this land very much resembles in shape an oak leaf, being much longer than it is broad; towards the top it inclines to the left [Note], while it terminates in the form of an Amazonian buckler [Note], in which the spot at the central projection is the place called Cocinthos, while it sends forth two horns at the end of its crescent-shaped bays, Leucopetra on the right and Lacinium on the left. It extends in length 1020 miles, if we measure from the foot of the Alps at Prætoria Augusta, through the city of Rome and Capua to the town of Rhegium, which is situate on the shoulder of the Peninsula, just at the bend of the neck as it were. The distance would be much greater if measured to Lacinium, but in that case the line, being drawn obliquely, would incline too much to one side. Its breadth is variable; being 410 miles between the two seas, the Lower and the Upper [Note], and the rivers Varus and Arsia [Note]: at about the middle, and in the vicinity of the city of Rome, from the spot where the river Aternus [Note] flows into the Adriatic sea, to the mouth of the Tiber, the distance is 136 miles, and a little less from Castrum-novum on the Adriatic sea to Alsium [Note] on the Tuscan; but in no place does it exceed 200 miles in breadth.
The circuit of the whole, from the Varus to the Arsia, is 3059 miles [Note].
As to its distance from the countries that surround it- Istria and Liburnia are, in some places [Note], 100 miles from it, and Epirus and Illyricum 50; Africa is less than 200, as we are informed by M. Varro; Sardinia [Note] is 120, Sicily 1 1/2, Corsica less than 80, and Issa [Note] 50. It extends into the two seas towards the southern parts of the heavens, or, to speak with more minute exactness, between the sixth [Note] hour and the first hour of the winter solstice.
We will now describe its extent and its different cities; in doing which, it is necessary to premise, that we shall follow the arrangement of the late Emperor Augustus, and adopt the division which he made of the whole of Italy into eleven districts; taking them, however, according to their order on the sea-line, as in so hurried a detail it would not be possible otherwise to describe each city in juxtaposition with the others in its vicinity. And for the same reason, in describing the interior, I shall follow the alphabetical order which has been adopted by that Emperor, pointing out the colonies of which he has made mention in his enumeration. Nor is it a very easy task to trace their situation and origin; for, not to speak of others, the Ingaunian Ligurians have had lands granted to them as many as thirty different times.
To begin then with the river Varus; we have the town of Nicæa [Note], founded by the Massilians, the river Paulo [Note], the Alps
and the Alpine tribes, distinguished by various names [Note], but more especially the Capillati [Note] , Cemenelio [Note], a town of the state of the Vediantii, the port of Hercules Monæcus [Note], and the Ligurian coast. The more celebrated of the Ligurian tribes beyond the Alps are the Salluvii, the Deciates, and the Oxubii [Note]; on this side of the Alps, the Veneni [Note], and the Vagienni, who are derived from the Caturiges [Note], the Statielli [Note], the Bimbelli [Note], the Magelli, the Euburiates, the Casmonates [Note], the Veleiates [Note], and the peoples whose towns we shall describe as lying near the adjoining coast. The river Rutuba [Note], the town of Albium Intemelium [Note], the river Merula [Note], the town of Albium Ingaunum [Note], the port of Vadum Sabatiorum [Note], the river Porcifera [Note], the town of Genua, the river Feritor [Note], the Portus Delphini [Note], Tigullia [Note], Tegesta [Note] of the Tigullii, and the river Macra [Note], which is the boundary of Liguria.
Extending behind all the before-mentioned places are the Apennines, the most considerable of all the mountains of Italy, the chain of which extends unbroken from the Alps [Note] to the Sicilian sea. On the other side of the Apennines, towards the Padus [Note], the richest river of Italy, the whole country is adorned with noble towns; Libarna [Note], the colony of Dertona [Note], Iria [Note], Barderate [Note], Industria [Note], Pollentia [Note], Carrea surnamed Potentia [Note], Foro Fulvî or Valentinum [Note], Augusta [Note] of the Vagienni, Alba Pompeia [Note], Asta [Note], and Aquæ Statiellorum [Note]. This is the ninth region, according to the arrangement of Augustus. The coast of Liguria extends 211 miles [Note], between the rivers Varus and Macra.
Next to this comes the seventh region, in which is Etruria,
a district which begins at the river Macra, and has often changed its name. At an early period the Umbri were expelled from it by the Pelasgi; and these again by the Lydians, who from a king of theirs [Note] were named Tyrrheni, but afterwards, from the rites observed in their sacrifices, were called, in the Greek language [Note], Tusci. The first town in Etruria is Luna [Note], with a noble harbour, then the colony of Luca [Note], at some distance from the sea, and nearer to it again the colony of Pisæ [Note], between the rivers Auser [Note] and Arnus [Note], which owes its origin to Pelops and the Pisans [Note], or else to the Teutani, a people of Greece. Next is Vada [Note] Volaterrana, then the river Cecinna [Note], and Populonium [Note] formerly belonging to the Etrurians, the only town they had on this coast. Next to these is the river Prile [Note], then the Umbro [Note], which is navigable, and where the district of Umbria begins, the port of Telamon [Note], Cosa [Note] of the Volcientes, founded by the Roman
people, Graviscæ [Note], Castrum novum [Note], Pyrgi [Note], the river Cæretanus [Note], and Cære [Note] itself, four miles inland, called Agylla by the Pelasgi who founded it, Alsium [Note], Fregenæ [Note], and the river Tiber, 284 [Note] miles from the Macra.
In the interior we have the colonies of Falisci [Note], founded by the Argives, according to the account of Cato [Note], and surnamed Falisci Etruscorum, Lucus Feroniæ [Note], Rusellana, the Senienses [Note], and Sutrina [Note]. The remaining peoples are the
Arretini [Note] Veteres, the Arretini Fidentes, the Arretini Julienses, the Amitinenses, the Aquenses, surnamed Taurini [Note], the Blerani [Note], the Cortonenses [Note], the Capenates [Note], the Clusini Novi, the Clusini Veteres [Note], the Florentini [Note], situate on the stream of the Arnus, Fæsulæ [Note], Ferentinum [Note], Fescennia [Note],
Hortanum [Note], Herbanum [Note], Nepeta [Note], Novem Pagi [Note], the Claudian præfecture of Foroclodium [Note], Pistorium [Note], Perusia [Note], the Suanenses, the Saturnini, formerly called the Aurinini, the Subertani [Note], the Statones [Note], the Tarquinienses [Note], the Tuscanienses [Note], the Vetulonienses [Note], the Veietani [Note], the Vesentini [Note], the Volaterrani [Note], the Voleentini [Note], surnamed Etrusci, and the Volsinienses [Note]. In the same district the territories of
Crustumerium [Note] and Caletra [Note] retain the names of the ancient towns.
The Tiber or Tiberis, formerly called Thybris, and previously Albula [Note], flows down from nearly the central part of the chain of the Apennines, in the territory of the Arretini. It is at first small, and only navigable by means of sluices, in which the water is dammed up and then discharged, in the same manner as the Timia [Note] and the Glanis, which flow into it; for which purpose it is found necessary to collect the water for nine days, unless there should happen to be a fall of rain. And even then, the Tiber, by reason of its rugged and uneven channel, is really more suitable for navigation by rafts than by vessels, for any great distance. It winds along for a course of 150 miles, passing not far from Tifernum [Note], Perusia, and Ocriculum [Note], and dividing Etruria from the Umbri [Note] and the Sabini [Note], and then, at a distance of less than sixteen
miles from the city, separating the territory of Veii from that of Crustuminum, and afterwards that of the Fidenates and of Latium from Vaticanum.
Below its union with the Glanis from Arretinum the Tiber is swollen by two and forty streams, particularly the Nar [Note] and the Anio, which last is also navigable and shuts in Latium at the back; it is also increased by the numerous aqueducts and springs which are conveyed to the City. Here it becomes navigable by vessels of any burden which may come up from the Italian sea; a most tranquil dispenser of the produce of all parts of the earth, and peopled and embellished along its banks with more villas than nearly all the other rivers of the world taken together. And yet there is no river more circumscribed than it, so close are its banks shut in on either side; but still, no resistance does it offer, although its waters frequently rise with great suddenness, and no part is more liable to be swollen than that which runs through the City itself. In such case, however, the Tiber is rather to be looked upon [Note] as pregnant with prophetic warnings to us, and in its increase to be considered more as a promoter of religion than a source of devastation.
Latium [Note] has preserved its original limits, from the Tiber to Circeii [Note], a distance of fifty miles: so slender at the beginning were the roots from which this our Empire sprang. Its inhabitants have been often changed, and different nations have peopled it at different times, the Aborigines,
the Pelasgi, the Arcades, the Seculi, the Aurunci, the Rutuli, and, beyond Circeii, the Volsci, the Osci, and the Ausones whence the name of Latium came to be extended as far as the river Liris [Note].
We will begin with Ostia [Note], a colony founded by a king of Rome, the town of Laurentum [Note], the grove of Jupiter Indiges [Note], the river Numicius [Note], and Ardea [Note], founded by Danaë, the mother of Perseus. Next come the former site of Aphrodisium [Note], the colony of Antium [Note], the river and island called Astura [Note], the river Nymphæus [Note], the Clostra Romana [Note], and Circeii [Note], formerly an island, and, if we are to believe Homer, surrounded by the open sea, though now by an extensive plain. The circumstances which we are enabled to publish on this subject for the information of the world are very remarkable. Theophrastus, the first foreigner who treated of the affairs of Rome with any degree of accuracy (for Theopompus, before whose time no Greek writer had made mention of us, only
stated the fact that the city had been taken by the Gauls, and Clitarchus, the next after him, only spoke of the embassy that was sent by the Romans to Alexander)—Theophrastus, I say, following something more than mere rumour, has given the circuit of the island of Circeii as being eighty stadia, in the volume which he wrote during the archonship of Nicodorus at Athens [Note], being the 440th year of our city. Whatever land therefore has been annexed to that island beyond the circumference of about ten miles, has been added to Italy since the year previously mentioned.
Another wonderful circumstance too.—Near Circeii are the Pomptine Marshes [Note], formerly the site, according to Mucianus, who was thrice consul, of four-and-twenty cities. Next to this comes the river Ufens [Note], upon which is the town of Terracina [Note], called, in the language of the Volsci, Anxur; the spot too where Amyclæ [Note] stood, a town destroyed by serpents. Next is the site of the Grotto [Note], Lake Fundanus [Note], the port of Caieta [Note], and then the town of Formiæ [Note], formerly called Hormiæ, the ancient seat of the Læstrygones [Note], it is supposed. Beyond this, formerly stood the
town of Pyræ; and we then come to the colony of Minturnæ [Note], which still exists, and is divided [Note] by the river Liris, also called the Glanis. The town of Sinuessa [Note] is the last in the portion which has been added to Latium; it is said by some that it used to be called Sinope.
At this spot begins that blessed country Campania [Note], and in this vale first take their rise those hills clad with vines, the juice of whose grape is extolled by Fame all over the world; the happy spot where, as the ancients used to say, father Liber and Ceres are ever striving for the mastery. Hence the fields of Setia [Note] and of Cæcubum [Note] extend afar. and, next to them those of Falernum [Note] and of Calinum [Note]. As soon as we have passed these, the hills of Massica [Note], of Gaurus [Note], and of Surrentum rise to our view. Next, the level plains of Laborium [Note] are spread out far and wide, where every care is bestowed on cultivating crops of spelt, from which the most delicate fermenty is made. These shores are watered by warm springs [Note], while the seas are distinguished beyond all others for the superlative excellence of their shell and other fish.
In no country too has the oil of the olive a more exquisite flavour. This territory, a battle-ground as it were for the gratification of every luxurious pleasure of man, has been held successively by the Osci, the Greeks, the Umbri, the Tusci, and the Campani.
On the coast we first meet with the river Savo [Note], the town of Volturnum with a river [Note] of the same name, the town of Liternum [Note], Cumæ [Note], a Chalcidian colony, Misenum [Note], the port of Baiæ [Note], Bauli [Note], the Lucrine Lake [Note], and Lake Avernus, near which there stood formerly a town [Note] of the Cimmerians. We then come to Puteoli [Note], formerly called the colony of Dicæ-
archia, then the Phlegræn [Note] Plains, and the Marsh of Acherusia [Note] in the vicinity of Cumæ.
Again, on the coast we have Neapolis [Note], also a colony of the Chalcidians, and called Parthenope from the tomb there of one of the Sirens, Herculaneum [Note], Pompeii [Note], from which Mount Vesuvius may be seen at no great distance, and which is watered by the river Sarnus [Note]; the territory of Nuceria, and, at the distance of nine miles from the sea, the town of that name [Note], and then Surrentum [Note], with the Promontory of Minerva [Note], formerly the abode of the Sirens. The distance thence by sea to Circeii is seventy-eight miles This
region, beginning at the Tiber, is looked upon as the first of Italy according to the division of Augustus.
Inland there are the following colonies:—Capua [Note], so called from its champaign country, Aquinum [Note], Suessa [Note], Venafrum [Note], Sora [Note], Teanum surnamed Sidicinum [Note], Nola [Note]; and the towns of Abella [Note], Aricia [Note], Alba Longa [Note], the Acer-
rani [Note], the Allifani [Note], the Atinates [Note], the Aletrinates [Note], the Anagnini [Note], the Atellani [Note], the Affilani [Note], the Arpinates [Note], the Auximates [Note], the Abellani [Note], the Alfaterni (both those who take their names from the Latin, the Hernican and the Labicanian territory), Bovillæ [Note], Calatia [Note], Casi-
num [Note], Calenum [Note], Capitulum [Note] of the Hernici, the Cereatini [Note], surnamed Mariani, the Corani [Note], descended from the Trojan Dardanus, the Cubulterini, the Castrimœnienses [Note], the Cingulani [Note], the Fabienses [Note] on the Alban Mount, the Foropopulienses [Note] of the Falernian district, the Frusinates [Note], the Ferentinates [Note], the Freginates [Note], the old Frabaterni [Note], the new Frabaterni, the Ficolenses [Note], the Fre-
gellani [Note], Forum Appî [Note], the Forentani [Note], the Gabini [Note], the Interamnates Succasini [Note], also surnamed Lirinates, the Ilionenses Lavinii [Note], the Norbani [Note], the Nomentani [Note], the Prænestini [Note] (whose city was formerly called Stephané), the Privernates [Note], the Setini [Note], the Signini [Note], the Suessulani [Note], the
Telesini [Note], the Trebulani, surnamed Balinienses [Note], the Trebani [Note], the Tusculani [Note], the Verulani [Note], the Veliterni [Note], the Ulubrenses [Note], the Urbinates [Note], and, last and greater than all, Rome herself, whose other name [Note] the hallowed mysteries of the sacred rites forbid us to mention without being guilty of the greatest impiety. After it had been long kept buried in secresy with the strictest fidelity and in respectful and salutary silence, Valerius Soranus dared to divulge it, but soon did he pay the penalty [Note] of his rashness.
It will not perhaps be altogether foreign to the purpose, if I here make mention of one peculiar institution of our forefathers which bears especial reference to the inculcation of silence on religious matters. The goddess Angerona [Note], to whom sacrifice is offered on the twelfth day before the calends of January [21st December], is represented in her statue as having her mouth bound with a sealed fillet.
Romulus left the city of Rome, if we are to believe those
who state the very greatest number, having three [Note] gates and no more. When the Vespasians were emperors [Note] and censors, in the year from its building 826, the circumference of the walls which surrounded it was thirteen miles and two-fifths. Surrounding as it does the Seven Hills, the city is divided into fourteen districts, with 265 cross-roads [Note] under the guardianship of the Lares. If a straight line is drawn from the mile-column [Note] placed at the entrance of the Forum, to each of the gates, which are at present thirty-seven in number (taking care to count only once the twelve double gates, and to omit the seven old ones, which no longer exist), the result will be [taking them altogether], a straight line of twenty miles and 765 paces [Note]. But if we draw a straight line from the same mile-column to the very last of the houses, including therein the Prætorian encampment, and follow throughout the line of all the streets, the result will then be something more than seventy miles. Add to these calculations the height of the houses, and then a person may form a fair idea of this city, and will certainly be obliged to admit that there is not a place throughout the whole world that for size can be compared to it. On the
eastern side it is bounded by the agger of Tarquinius Superbus, a work of surpassing grandeur; for he raised it so high as to be on a level with the walls on the side on which the city lay most exposed to attack from the neighbouring plains. On all the other sides it has been fortified either with lofty walls or steep and precipitous hills [Note], but so it is, that its buildings, increasing and extending beyond all bounds, have now united many other cities to it [Note].
Besides those previously mentioned, there were formerly in the first region the following famous towns of Latium: Satricum [Note], Pometia [Note], Scaptia, Politorium [Note], Tellene, Tifata, Cænina [Note], Ficana [Note], Crustumerium, Ameriola [Note], Medullum [Note], Corniculum [Note], Saturnia [Note], on the site of the present city of
Rome, Antipolis [Note], now Janiculum, forming part of Rome, Antemnæ [Note], Carnerium [Note], Collatia [Note], Amitinum [Note], Norbe, Sulmo [Note], and, with these, those Alban nations [Note] who used to take part in the sacrifices [Note] upon the Alban Mount, the Albani, the Æsulani [Note], the Accienses, the Abolani, the Bube-
tani [Note], the Bolani [Note], the Cusuetani, the Coriolani [Note], the Fidenates [Note], the Foretii, the Hortenses [Note], the Latinienses, the Longulani [Note], the Manates, the Macrales, the Mutucumenses, the Munienses, the Numinienses, the Olliculani, the Octulani, the Pedani [Note], the Polluscini, the Querquetulani, the Sicani, the Sisolenses, the Tolerienses, the Tutienses, the Vimitellarii, the Velienses, the Venetulani, and the Vitellenses. Thus we see, fifty-three peoples of ancient Latium have passed away without leaving any traces of their existence.
In the Campanian territory there was also the town of Stabiæ [Note], until the consulship of Cneius Pompeius and L. Cato, when, on the day before the calends of May [30th of April], it was destroyed in the Social War by L. Sulla the legatus, and all that now stands on its site is a single farmhouse. Here also Taurania has ceased to exist, and the remains of Casilinum [Note] are fast going to ruin. Besides these,
we learn from Antias that king L. Tarquinius took Apiolæ [Note], a town of the Latins, and with its spoils laid the first foundations of the Capitol. From Surrentum [Note] to the river Silarus [Note], the former territory of Picentia [Note] extends for a distance of thirty miles. This belonged to the Etruscans, and was remarkable for the temple of the Argive Juno, founded by Jason [Note]. In it was Picentia, a town [Note] of the territory of Salernum [Note].
At the Silarus begins the third region of Italy, consisting of the territory of Lucania and Bruttium; here too there have been no few changes of the population. These districts
have been possessed by the Pelasgi, the Œnotrii, the Itali, the Morgetes, the Siculi, and more especially by people who emigrated from Greece [Note], and, last of all, by the Leucani, a people sprung from the Samnites, who took possession under the command of Lucius. We find here the town of Pæstum [Note], which received from the Greeks the name of Posidonia, the Gulf of Pæstum [Note], the town of Elea, now known as Velia [Note], and the Promontory of Palinurum [Note], a point at which the land falls inwards and forms a bay [Note], the distance across which to the pillar [Note] of Rhegium is 100 miles. Next after Palinurum comes the river Melpes [Note], then the town of Buxentum [Note], called in [Magna] Græcia Pyxus, and the river Laus; there was formerly a town [Note] also of the same name.
At this spot begins the coast of Bruttium, and we come to the town of Blanda [Note], the river Batum [Note], Parthenius, a port of the Phocians, the bay of Vibo [Note], the place [Note] where
Clampetia formerly stood, the town of Temsa [Note], called Temese by the Greeks, and Terina founded by the people of Crotona [Note], with the extensive Gulf of Terina; more inland, the town of Consentia [Note]. Situate upon a peninsula [Note] is the river Acheron [Note], from which the people of Acherontia derive the name of their town; then Hippo, now called Vibo Valentia, the Port of Hercules [Note], the river Metaurus [Note], the town of Tauroentum [Note], the Port of Orestes, and Medma [Note]. Next, the town of Scyllæum [Note], the river Cratæis [Note], the mother of Scylla it is said; then the Pillar of Rhegium, the Straits of Sicily, and the two promontories which face each other, Cænys [Note] on the Italian, and Pelorus [Note] on the Sicilian side, the distance between them being twelve stadia. At a distance thence of twelve miles and a half, we come to Rhegium [Note], after which begins Sila [Note], a forest of the Apennines, and then the pro-
montory of Leucopetra [Note], at a distance of fifteen miles; after which come the Locri [Note], who take their surname from the promontory of Zephyrium [Note], being distant from the river Silarus 303 miles.
At this spot ends the first [Note] great Gulf of Europe; the seas in which bear the following names:—That from which it takes its rise is called the Atlantic, by some the Great Atlantic, the entrance of which is, by the Greeks, called Porthmos, by us the Straits of Gades. After its entrance, as far as it washes the coasts of Spain, it is called the Hispanian Sea, though some give it the name of the Iberian or Balearic [Note] Sea. Where it faces the province of Gallia Narbonensis it has the name of the Gallic, and after that, of the Ligurian, Sea. From Liguria to the island of Sicily, it is called the Tuscan Sea, the same which is called by some of the Greeks the Notian [Note], by others the Tyrrhenian, while many of our people call it the Lower Sea. Beyond Sicily, as far as the country of the Salentini, it is styled by Polybius the Ausonian Sea. Eratosthenes however gives to the whole expanse that lies between the inlet of the ocean and the island of Sardinia, the name of the Sardoan Sea; thence to Sicily, the Tyrrhenian; thence to Crete, the Sicilian; and beyond that island, the Cretan Sea.
The first islands that we meet with in all these seas are
the two to which the Greeks have given the name of Pityussæ [Note], from the pine-tree [Note], which they produce. These islands now bear the name of Ebusus, and form a federate state. They are separated by a narrow strait [Note] of the sea, and are forty-six [Note] miles in extent. They are distant from Dianium [Note] 700 stadia, Dianium being by land the same distance [Note] from New Carthage. At the same distance [Note] from the Pityussæ, lie, in the open sea, the two Baleares, and, over against the river Sucro [Note], Colubraria [Note]. The Baleares [Note], so formidable in war with their slingers [Note], have received from the Greeks the name of Gymnasiæ.
The larger island is 100 [Note] miles in length, and 475 in circumference. It has the following towns; Palma [Note] and Pollentia [Note], enjoying the rights of Roman citizens, Cinium [Note] and Tucis, with Latin rights: Bocchorum, a federate town, is no longer in existence. At thirty miles' distance is the
smaller island, 40 miles in length, and 150 [Note] in circumference; it contains the states of Jamnon [Note], Sanisera, and Magon [Note].
In the open sea, at twelve miles' distance from the larger island, is Capraria [Note] with its treacherous coast, so notorious for its numerous shipwrecks; and, opposite to the city of Palma, are the islands known as the Mænariæ [Note], Tiquadra [Note], and Little Hannibalis [Note].
The earth of Ebusus has the effect of driving away serpents, while that of Colubraria produces them; hence the latter spot is dangerous to all persons who have not brought with them some of the earth of Ebusus. The Greeks have given it the name of Ophiusa [Note]. Ebusus too produces no [Note] rabbits to destroy the harvests of the Baleares. There are also about twenty other small islands in this sea, which is full of shoals. Off the coast of Gaul, at the mouth of the Rhodanus, there is Metina [Note], and near it the island which is known as Blascon [Note], with the three Stœchades, so called by their neighbours the Massilians [Note], on account of the regular order in which they are placed; their respective names are Prote [Note], Mese [Note], also
called Pomponiana, and Hypæa [Note]. After these come Sturium [Note], Phœnice, Phila, Lero, and, opposite to Antipolis [Note], Lerina [Note], where there is a remembrance of a town called Vergoanum having once existed.
In the Ligurian Sea, but close to the Tuscan, is Corsica, by the Greeks called Cyrnos, extending, from north to south 150 miles, and for the most part 50 miles in breadth, its circumference being 325. It is 62 miles distant from the Vada Volaterrana [Note]. It contains thirty-two states, and two colonies, that of Mariana [Note], founded by C. Marius, and that of Aleria, founded by the Dictator Sylla. On this side of it is Oglasa [Note], and, at a distance of less than sixty miles from Corsica, Planaria [Note], so called from its appearance, being nearly level with the sea, and consequently treacherous to mariners.
We next have Urgo [Note], a larger island, and Capraria, which the Greeks have called Ægilion [Note]; then Igilium [Note] and Dianium [Note], which they have also called Artemisia, both of them opposite the coast of Cosa; also Barpana [Note], Mænaria, Co-
lumbaria, and Venaria. We then come to Ilva [Note] with its iron mines, an island 100 miles in circumference, 10 miles distant from Populonium, and called Æthalia by the Greeks: from it the island of Planasia [Note] is distant 28 miles. After these, beyond the mouths of the Tiber, and off the coast of Antium, we come to Astura [Note], then Palmaria and Sinonia, and, opposite to Formiæ, Pontiæ. In the Gulf of Puteoli are Pandateria [Note], and Prochyta, so called, not from the nurse of Æneas, but because it has been poured forth [Note] or detached from Ænaria [Note], an island which received its name from having been the anchorage of the fleet of Æneas, though called by Homer Inarime [Note]; it is also called Pithecusa, not, as many have fancied, on account of the multitudes of apes found there, but from its extensive manufactories of pottery. Between Pausilipum [Note] and Neapolis lies the island of Megaris [Note], and then, at a distance of eight miles from Surrentum, Capreæ [Note], famous for the castle of the emperor Tiberius: it is eleven miles in circumference.
Leucothea comes next, and after it, but out of sight, as it lies upon the verge of the African Sea, Sardinia. It is situate somewhat less [Note] than eight miles from the nearest point of Corsica, and the Straits between them are even still more reduced by the small islands there situate, called the Cuniculariæ [Note], as also those of Phintonis [Note] and Fossæ, from which last the Straits themselves have obtained the name of Taphros [Note].
(7.) Sardinia extends, upon the east side, a distance of 188 miles, on the west 175, on the south 77, and on the north 125, being 565 miles in circumference. Its promontory of Caralis [Note] is distant from Africa 200, and from Gades 1400 miles. Off the promontory of Gordis [Note] it has two islands called the Isles of Hercules [Note], off that of Sulcis, the island of Enosis [Note], and off that of Caralis, Ficaria [Note]. Some writers place Beleris not far from it, as also Callodis, and the island known as Heras Lutra [Note].
The most celebrated peoples of this island are the Ilienses [Note], the Balari, and the Corsi; and among its eighteen towns, there are those of the Sulcitani [Note], the Valentini [Note], the Neapoli-
tani [Note], the Bosenses [Note], the Caralitani [Note], who enjoy the rights of Roman citizens, and the Norenses [Note]. There is also one colony which is called Ad Turrim Libysonis [Note]. Timæus has called this island Sandaliotis, on account of the similarity of its shape to the sole of a shoe, while Myrtilus has given it the name of Ichnusa [Note], from its resemblance to the print of a footstep. Opposite to the Gulf of Pæstum is Leucasia [Note], so called from a Siren who is buried there; opposite to Velia are Poiitia and Isacia, both known by one name, that of Œnotrides, a proof that Italy was formerly possessed by the Œnotrians. Opposite to Vibo are the little islands called Ithacesiæ [Note] from the watch-tower of Ulysses situate there.
But more celebrated than all is Sicily, called Sicania by Thucydides, and by many writers Trinacria or Trinacia, from its triangular appearance. According to Agrippa it is 618 [Note] miles in circumference. In former times it was a continuation of the territory of Bruttium, but, in consequence of the overflowing of the sea, became severed from it; thus forming a strait of 15 miles in length, and a mile and a half in width in the vicinity of the Pillar of Rhegium. It was from this circumstance of the land being severed asunder that the Greeks gave the name of Rhegium [Note] to the town situate on the Italian shore.
In these Straits is the rock of Scylla, as also Charybdis [Note], a whirlpool of the sea, both of them noted for their perils. Of this triangle, the promontory, which, as we have already [Note]
mentioned, is called Pelorus, faces Scylla and juts out towards Italy, while Pachynum [Note] extends in the direction of Greece, Peloponnesus being at a distance from it of 440 miles, and Lilybæum [Note], towards Africa, being distant 180 miles from the promontory of Mercury [Note], and from that of Caralis in Sardinia 190. These promontories and sides are situate at the following distances from each other: by land it is 186 miles from Pelorus to Pachynum, from Pachynum to Lilybæum 200, and from Lilybæum to Pelorus 170 [Note].
In this island there are five colonies and sixty-three cities or states. Leaving Pelorus and facing the Ionian Sea, we have the town of Messana [Note], whose inhabitants are also called Mamertini and enjoy the rights of Roman citizens; the promontory of Drepanum [Note], the colony of Tauromenium [Note], formerly called Naxos, the river Asines [Note], and Mount Ætna, wondrous for the flames which it emits by night. Its crater is twenty stadia in circumference, and from it red-hot cinders are thrown as far as Tauromenium and Catina, the noise being heard even at Maroneum [Note] and the Gemellian Hills. We then come to the three rocks of the Cyclopes [Note], the Port of Ulysses [Note], the colony of Catina [Note], and the rivers Symæthus [Note] and Terias; while more inland lie the Læstrygonian Plains.
To these rivers succeed the towns of Leontinum [Note] and Megaris, the river Pantagies [Note], the colony of Syracuse [Note], with the fountain of Arethusa [Note], (the people in the Syracusan ter-
ritory drink too of the fountains of Temenitis [Note], Archidemia,
Magæa, Cyane, and Milichie,) the port of Naustathmus [Note], the
river Elorus, and the promontory of Pachynum. This
side [Note] of Sicily begins with the river Hirminius [Note], then follow the town of Camarina [Note], the river Gelas [Note], and the town
of Agragas [Note], which our people have named Agrigentum. We
next come to the colony of Thermæ [Note]
Agathyrnum, the colony of Tyndaris [Note], the town of Mylæ [Note], and then Pelorus, the spot at which we began.
In the interior there are the following towns enjoying Latin privileges, those of the Centuripini [Note], the Netini [Note], and the Segestani [Note]; tributary towns are those of the Assorini [Note], the Ætnenses [Note], the Agyrini [Note], the Acestæi, the Acrenses [Note], the Bidini [Note], the Cetarini [Note], the Cacyrini [Note], the Drepanitani, the Ergetini [Note], the Echetlienses [Note], the Erycini [Note], the Entellini [Note], the Enini [Note], the Enguini [Note], the Gelani [Note], the Gala-
tini [Note], the Halesini [Note], the Hennenses, the Hyblenses [Note], the Herbitenses [Note], the Herbessenses [Note], the Herbulenses, the Halicyenses [Note], the Hadranitani [Note], the Imacarenses, the Ipanenses, the Ietenses [Note], the Mytistratini [Note], the Magellini, the Murgentini [Note], the Mutycenses [Note], the Menanini [Note], the Naxii [Note], the Noæi [Note], the Petrini [Note], the Paropini [Note], the Phthinthienses [Note], the Semellitani, the Scherini, the Selinuntii [Note], the Symæthii, the
Talarienses, the Tissinenses [Note], the Triocalini [Note], the Tyraci- nenses, and the Zanclæi [Note], a Messenian colony on the Straits of Sicily. Towards Africa, its islands are Gaulos [Note], Melita, 87 miles from Camerina, and 113 from Lilybæum, Cosyra [Note], Hieronnesos [Note], Cæne [Note], Galata [Note], Lopadusa, Æthusa, written by some Ægusa, Bucinna [Note], Osteodes [Note], distant from Soluntum 75 miles, and, opposite to Paropus, Ustica.
On this side of Sicily, facing the river Metaurus, at a di- stance of nearly 25 [Note] miles from Italy, are the seven [Note] islands called the Æolian, as also the Liparæan islands; by the Greeks they are called the Hephæstiades, and by our writers the Vulcanian [Note] Isles; they are called "Æolian" because in the Trojan times Æolus was king there.
(9.) Lipara [Note], with a town whose inhabitants enjoy the rights of Roman citizens, is so called from Liparus, a former king who succeeded [Note] Æolus, it having been previously called Melogonis or Meligunis. It is 25 miles [Note] distant from Italy, and in circumference a little less. Between this island and Sicily we find another, the name of which was formerly Therasia, but now called Hiera, because it is sacred to Vulcan [Note]: it contains a hill which at night vomits forth
flames. The third island is Strongyle [Note], lying one mile [Note] to the east of Lipara, over which Æolus reigned as well; it differs only from Lipara in the superior brilliancy of its flames. From the smoke of this volcano it is said that some of the inhabitants are able to predict three days beforehand what winds are about to blow; hence arose the notion that the winds are governed by Æolus. The fourth of these islands is Didyme [Note], smaller than Lipara, the fifth Ericusa, the sixth Phœnicusa, left to be a pasture-ground for the cattle of the neighbouring islands, and the last and smallest Euonymos. Thus much as to the first great Gulf of Europe.
At Locri begins the fore-part of Italy, called Magna Græcia, whose coast falls back in three bays [Note] formed by the Ausonian sea, so called from the Ausones, who were the first inhabitants of the country. According to Varro it is 86 miles in extent; but most writers have made it only 75. Along this coast there are rivers innumerable, but we shall mention those only that are worthy of remark. After leaving Locri we come to the Sagra [Note], and the ruins of the town of Caulon, Mystiæ [Note], Consilinum Castrum [Note], Cocinthum [Note], in the opinion of some, the longest headland of Italy, and then the Gulf of Scylacium [Note], and Scylacium [Note] itself,
which was called by the Athenians, when they founded it, Scylletium. This part of Italy is nearly a peninsula, in consequence of the Gulf of Terinæum [Note] running up into it on the other side; in it there is a harbour called Castra Hannibalis [Note]: in no part is Italy narrower than here, it being but twenty miles across. For this reason the Elder Dionysius entertained the idea of severing [Note] this portion from the main-land of Italy at this spot, and adding it to Sicily. The navigable rivers in this district are the Carcines [Note], the Crotalus, the Semirus, the Arocas, and the Targines. In the interior is the town of Petilia [Note], and there are besides, Mount Clibanus [Note], the promontory of Lacinium, in front of which lies the island of Dioscoron [Note], ten miles from the main-land, and another called the Isle of Calypso, which Homer is supposed to refer to under the name of Ogygia; as also the islands of Tiris, Eranusa, and Meloessa. According to Agrippa, the promontory of Lacinium [Note] is seventy miles from Caulon.
(11.) At the promontory of Lacinium begins the second Gulf of Europe, the bend of which forms an are of great depth, and terminates at Acroceraunium, a promontory of Epirus, from which it is distant [Note] seventy-five miles. We first come to the town of Croton [Note], and then the river
Neæthus [Note], and the town of Thurii [Note], situate between the two rivers Crathis and Sybaris, upon the latter of which there was once a city [Note] of the same name. In a similar manner Heraclia [Note], sometimes called Siris, lies between the river of that name and the Aciris. We next come to the rivers Acalandrus and Casuentum [Note], and the town of Metapontum [Note], with which the third region of Italy terminates. In the interior of Bruttium, the Aprustani [Note] are the only people; but in Lucania we find the Atinates, the Bantini, the Eburini [Note], the Grumentini, the Potentini, the Sontini [Note], the Sirini, the Tergilani, the Ursentini, and the Volcentani [Note], whom the Numestrani join. Besides these, we learn from Cato [Note] that Thebes in Lucania has disappeared, and Theopompus informs us that there was formerly a city of the Lucani called Pandosia [Note], at which Alexander, the king of Epirus, died.
Adjoining to this district is the second region of Italy, which embraces the Hirpini, Calabria, Apulia, and the Salentini, extending a distance of 250 miles along the Gulf of Tarentum, which receives its name from a town of the Laconians so called, situate at the bottom of the Gulf; to which was annexed the maritime colony which had previously settled there. Tarentum [Note] is distant from the promontory of Lacinium 136 miles, and throws out the territory of Calabria opposite to it in the form of a peninsula. The Greeks called this territory Messapia, from their leader [Note]; before which it was called Peucetia, from Peucetius [Note], the brother of Œnotrius, and was comprised in the territory of Salentinum. Between the two promontories [Note] there is a distance of 100 miles. The breadth across the peninsula from Tarentum [Note] to Brundusium by land is 35 miles, considerably less if measured from the port of Sasina [Note]. The towns inland from Tarentum are Varia [Note] surnamed Apulia, Messapia, and Aletium [Note]; on the coast, Senum, and Callipolis [Note], now known as Anxa, 75 miles from
Tarentum. Thence, at a distance of 32 miles, is the Pro- montory of Acra Iapygia [Note], at which point Italy projects the greatest distance into the sea. At a distance of 19 miles from this point is the town of Basta [Note], and then Hydruntum [Note], the spot at which the Ionian is separated from the Adriatic sea, and from which the distance across to Greece is the shortest. The town of the Apolloniates [Note] lies opposite to it, and the breadth of the arm of the sea which runs between is not more than fifty miles. Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, was the first who entertained the notion of uniting these two points and making a passage on foot, by throwing a bridge across, and after him M. Varro [Note], when commanding the fleet of Pompey in the war against the Pirates. Other cares however prevented either of them from accomplishing this design. Passing Hydruntum, we come to the deserted site of Soletum [Note], then Fratuertium, the Portus Tarentinus, the haven of Miltopa, Lupia [Note], Balesium [Note], Cælia [Note], and then Brundusium [Note], fifty miles from Hydruntum. This last place is
one of the most famous .ports of Italy, and, although more distant, affords by far the safest passage across to Greece, the place of disembarkation being Dyrrachium, a city of Illyria; the distance across is 225 miles.
Adjoining Brundusium is the territory of the Pediculi [Note]; nine youths and as many maidens, natives of Illyria, became the parents of sixteen nations. The towns of the Pediculi are Rudiæ [Note], Egnatia [Note], and Barium [Note]; their rivers are the Iapyx (so called from the son of Dædalus, who was king there, and who gave it the name of Iapygia), the Pactius [Note], and the Aufidus, which rises in the Hirpinian mountains and flows past Canusium [Note].
At this point begins Apulia, surnamed the Daunian, from the Daunii, who take their name from a former chief, the father-in-law of Diomedes. In this territory are the towns of Salapia [Note], famous for Hannibal's amour with a courtezan, Sipontum [Note],
Uria, the river Cerbalus [Note], forming the boundary of the Daunii, the port of Agasus [Note], and the Promontory of Mount Garganus [Note], distant from the Promontory of Salentinum or Iapygia 234 miles. Making the circuit of Garganus, we come to the port of Garna [Note], the Lake Pantanus [Note], the river Frento, the mouth of which forms a harbour, Teanum of the Apuli [Note], and Larinum, Cliternia [Note], and the river Tifernus, at which the district of the Frentani [Note] begins. Thus there were three different nations of the Apulians, [the Daunii,] the Teani, so called from their leader, and who sprang from the Greeks, and the Lucani, who were subdued by Calchas [Note], and whose country is now possessed by the Atinates. Besides those already mentioned, there are, of the Daunii, the colonies of Luceria [Note] and Venusia [Note], the towns of Canusium [Note] and Arpi, formerly called Argos Hippium [Note] and founded by Diomedes, afterwards called Argyrippa. Here too Diomedes destroyed the nations of the Monadi and the Dardi, and the two cities of Apina and
Trica [Note], whose names have passed into a by-word and a proverb.
Besides the above, there is in the interior of the second region one colony of the Hirpini, Beneventum [Note], so called by an exchange of a more auspicious name for its old one of Maleventum; also the Æculani [Note], the Aquilonii [Note], the Abellinates surnamed Protropi, the Compsani, the Caudini, the Ligures, both those called the Corneliani and Bebiani, the Vescellani, the Æclani, the Aletrini, the Abellinates [Note] surnamed Marsi, the Atrani, the Æcani [Note], the Alfellani [Note], the
Atinates [Note], the Arpani, the Borcani, the Collatni, the Cori- nenses, the Cannenses [Note], rendered famous by the defeat of the Romans, the Dirini, the Forentani [Note], the Genusini [Note], the Herdo- nienses, the Hyrini [Note], the Larinates surnamed Frentani [Note], the Merinates [Note] of Garganus, the Mateolani, the Netini [Note], the Ru- bustini [Note], the Silvini [Note], the Strapellini [Note], the Turmentini, the Vibinates [Note], the Venusini, and the Ulurtini. In the interior of Calabria there are the Ægetini, the Apamestini [Note], the Argentini, the Butuntinenses [Note], the Deciani, the Grumbestini,
the Norbanenses, the Palionenses, the Sturnini [Note], and the Tutini: there are also the following Salentine nations; the Aletini [Note], the Basterbini [Note], the Neretini, the Uxentini, and the Veretini [Note].
We now come to the fourth region, which includes the most valiant probably of all the nations of Italy. Upon the coast, in the territory of the Frentani [Note], after the river Tifernus, we find the river Trinium [Note], with a good harbour at its mouth, the towns of Histonium [Note], Buca [Note], and Ortona, and the river Aternus [Note]. In the interior are the Anxani surnamed Frentani, the Higher and Lower Carentini [Note], and the Lanuenses; in the territory of the Marrucini, the Teatini [Note]; in that of the Peligni, the Corfinienses [Note], the Superæquani [Note], and the Sulmonenses [Note];
in that of the Marsi, the Anxantini [Note], the Atinates [Note], the Fucentes [Note], the Lucenses [Note], and the Marruvini [Note]; in that of the Albenses, the town of Alba on Lake Fucinus; in that of the Æquiculani, the Cliternini [Note], and the Carseolani [Note]; in that of the Vestini, the Angulani [Note], the Pinnenses, and the Peltuinates, adjoining to whom are the Aufinates [Note] Cismontani; in that of the Samnites, who have been called Sabelli [Note], and whom the Greeks have called Saunitæ, the colony of old Bovianum [Note], and that of the Undecumani,
the Aufidenates [Note], the Esernini [Note], the Fagifulani, the Ficolenses [Note], the Sæpinates [Note], and the Tereventinates; in that of the Sabini, the Amiternini [Note], the Curenses [Note], Forum Decî [Note], Forum Novum, the Fidenates, the Interamnates [Note], the Nursini [Note], the Nomentani [Note], the Reatini [Note], the Trebulani, both those called Mutusci [Note] and those called Suffenates [Note], the Tiburtes, and the Tarinates.
In these districts, the Comini [Note], the Tadiates, the Cædici,
and the Alfaterni, tribes of the Æquiculi, have disappeared. From Gellianus we learn that Archippe [Note], a town of the Marsi, built by Marsyas, a chieftain of the Lydians, has been swallowed up by Lake Fucinus, and Valerianus informs us that the town of the Viticini in Picenum was destroyed by the Romans. The Sabini (called, according to some writers, from their attention to religious [Note] observances and the worship of the gods, Sevini) dwell on the dew-clad hills in the vicinity of the Lakes of the Velinus [Note]. The Nar, with its sulphureous waters, exhausts these lakes, and, descending from Mount Fiscellus [Note], unites with them near the groves of Vacuna [Note] and Reate, and then directs its course towards the Tiber, into which it discharges itself. Again, in another direction, the Anio [Note], taking its rise in the mountain of the Trebani, carries into the Tiber the waters of three lakes remarkable for their picturesque beauty, and to which Subla-
queum [Note] is indebted for its name. In the territory of Reate is the Lake of Cutiliæ [Note], in which there is a floating island, and which, according to M. Varro, is the navel or central point of Italy. Below the Sabine territory lies that of La- tium, on one side Picenum, and behind it Umbria, while the range of the Apennines flanks it on either side.
The fifth region is that of Picenum, once remarkable for the denseness of its population; 360,000 Picentines took the oaths of fidelity to the Roman people. They are descended from the Sabines, who had made a vow to celebrate a holy spring [Note]. Their territory commenced at the river Aternus [Note], where the present district and colony of Adria [Note] is, at a distance of six miles from the sea. Here we find the river Vomanus, the territories of Prætutia and Palma [Note], Castrum Novum [Note],
the river Batinus; Truentum [Note], with its river of the same name, which place is the only remnant of the Liburni [Note] in Italy; the river Albula [Note]; Tervium, at which the Prætutian district ends, and that of Picenum begins; the town of Cupra [Note], Castellum Firmanorum [Note], and above it the colony of Asculum [Note], the most illustrious in Picenum; in the interior there is the town of Novana [Note]. Upon the coast we have Cluana [Note], Potentia, Numana, founded by the Siculi, and Ancona [Note], a colony founded by the same people on the Promontory of Cumerus, forming an elbow of the coast, where it begins to bend in- wards, and distant from Garganus 183 miles. In the interior
are the Auximates [Note], the Beregrani [Note], the Cingulani, the Cuprenses surnamed Montani [Note], the Falarienses [Note], the Pausulani, the Planinenses, the Ricinenses, the Septempedani [Note], the Tollentinates, the Treienses, and the Pollentini of Urbs Salvia [Note].
Adjoining to this is the sixth region, which includes Umbria and the Gallic territory in the vicinity of Ariminum. At Ancona begins the coast of that part of Gaul known as Gallia Togata [Note]. The Siculi and the Liburni possessed the greater part of this district, and more particularly the territories of Palma, of Prætutia, and of Adria. These were expelled by the Umbri, these again by the Etrurians, and these in their turn by the Gauls. The Umbri are thought to have been the most ancient race in Italy, it being supposed that they were called "Ombrii" by the Greeks, from the fact of their having survived the rains [Note] which had inundated
the earth. We read that 300 of their towns were conquered by the Tusci; at the present day we find on their coast the river Æsis [Note], Senogallia [Note], the river Metaurus, the colonies of Fanum Fortunæ [Note] and Pisaurum [Note], with a river of the same name; and, in the interior, those of Hispellum [Note] and Tuder.
Besides the above, there are the Amerini [Note], the Attidiates [Note], the Asisinates [Note], the Arnates [Note], the Æsinates [Note], the Camertes [Note], the Casuentillani, the Carsulani [Note], the Dolates surnamed
Salentini, the Fulginiates [Note], the Foroflaminienses [Note], the Forojulienses surnamed Concupienses, the Forobrentani, the Forosempronienses [Note], the Iguvini [Note], the Interamnates surnamed Nartes, the Mevanates [Note], the Mevanionenses, the Matilicates [Note], the Narnienses [Note], whose town used formerly to be called Nequinum; the Nucerini [Note], both those surnamed Favonienses and those called Camellani; the Ocriculani [Note], the Ostrani [Note], the Pitulani, both those surnamed Pisuertes and the others called Mergentini; the Plestini [Note], the Sentinates [Note], the Sarsi-
nates [Note], the Spoletini [Note], the Suasini [Note], the Sestinates [Note], the Suillates [Note], the Tadinates [Note], the Trebiates [Note], the Tuficani [Note], the Tifernates [Note] surnamed Tiberini, and the others called Metaurenses, the Vesinicates, the Urbinates, both those surnamed Metaurenses [Note] and the others called Hortenses, the Vettonenses [Note], the Vindinates, and the Viventani. In this district there exist no longer the Feliginates who possessed Clusiolum above Interamna, and the Sarranates, with their towns of Acerræ [Note], surnamed Vafriæ, and Turocelum, also called Vettiolum; as also the Solinates, the Curiates, the Fallienates, and the Apiennates. The Arienates also have disappeared with the town of Crinovolum, as well as the Usidicani, the Plangenses, the Pæsinates, and the Cælestini.
Cato writes that Ameria above-mentioned was founded 964 years before the war with Perseus.
The eighth region is bounded by Ariminum, the Padus, and the Apennines. Upon the coast we have the river Crustumium [Note], and the colony of Ariminum [Note], with the rivers Ariminus and Aprusa. Next comes the river Rubico [Note], once the boundary of Italy, and after it the Sapis [Note], the Vitis, and the Anemo, and then, Ravenna, a town of the Sabines [Note], with the river Bedesis, 105 miles from Ancona; and, not far from the sea, Butrium [Note], a town of the Umbri. In the interior there are the colonies of Bononia [Note], formerly called Felsina, when
it was the chief place of Etruria [Note], Brixillum [Note], Mutina [Note], Parma [Note], and Placentia [Note]. There are also the towns of Cæsena [Note], Claterna, Forum Clodî [Note], Forum Livî, Forum Popilî, Forum Truentinorum [Note], Forum Cornelî, Forum Licinî, the Faventini [Note], the Fidentini [Note], the Otesini, the Padinates [Note], the Regi-
enses [Note], who take their name from Lepidus, the Solonates [Note], the Saltus Galliani [Note], surnamed Aquinates, the Tannetani [Note], the Veliates [Note], who were anciently surnamed Regiates, and the Urbanates [Note]. In this district the Boii [Note] have disappeared, of whom there were 112 tribes according to Cato; as also the Senones, who captured Rome.
(16.) The Padus [Note] descends from the bosom of Mount Vesulus, one of the most elevated points of the chain of the Alps, in the territories of the Ligurian Vagienni [Note], and rises at its source in a manner that well merits an inspection by the curious; after which it hides itself in a subterranean channel until it rises again in the country of the Forovibienses. It is inferior in fame to none whatever among the rivers, being known to the Greeks as the Eridanus and famous as the scene of the punishment of Phaëton [Note]. At the rising of the Dog-star it is swollen by the melted snows; but, though it proves more furious in its course to the adjoining fields
than to the vessels that are upon it, still it takes care to carry away no portion of its banks, and when it recedes, renders them additionally fertile. Its length from its source is 300 miles, to which we must add eighty-eight for its sinuosities; and it receives from the Apennines and Alps not only several navigable rivers, but immense lakes as well, which discharge themselves into its waters, thus conveying altogether as many as thirty streams into the Adriatic Sea.
Of these the best known are the following—flowing from the range of the Apennines, the Jactus, the Tanarus [Note], the Trebia which passes Placentia, the Tarus, the Incia, the Gabellus, the Scultenna, and the Rhenus: from the chain of the Alps, the Stura [Note], the Orgus, the two Duriæ, the Sessites, the Ticinus, the Lambrus, the Addua, the Ollius, and the Mincius. There is no river known to receive a larger increase than this in so short a space; so much so indeed that it is impelled onwards by this vast body of water, and, invading the land [Note], forms deep channels in its course: hence it is that, although a portion of its stream is drawn off by rivers and canals between Ravenna and Altinum, for a space of 120 miles, still, at the spot where it discharges the vast body of its waters, it is said to form seven seas.
By the Augustan Canal the Padus is carried to Ravenna, at which place it is called the Padusa [Note], having formerly borne the name of Messanicus. The nearest mouth to this spot
forms the extensive port known as that of Vatrenus, where Claudius Cæsar [Note], on his triumph over the Britons, entered the Adriatic in a vessel that deserved rather the name of a vast palace than a ship. This mouth, which was formerly called by some the Eridanian, has been by others styled the Spinetic mouth, from the city of Spina, a very powerful place which formerly stood in the vicinity, if we may form a conclusion from the amount of its treasure deposited at Delphi; it was founded by Diomedes. At this spot the river Vatrenus [Note], which flows from the territory of Forum Corneli, swells the waters of the Padus.
The next mouth to this is that of Caprasia [Note], then that of Sagis, and then Volane, formerly called Olane; all of which are situate upon the Flavian Canal [Note], which the Tuscans formerly made from Sagis, thus drawing the impetuous stream of the river across into the marshes of the Atriani, which they call the Seven Seas; and upon which is the noble port of Atria [Note], a city of the Tuscans, from which place the sea was formerly called the Atriatic, though now the Adriatic.
We next come to the overflowing mouths of Carbonaria, and the Fosses of Philistina [Note], by some called Tarta-
rus [Note], all of which originate in the overflow of the waters in the Philistinian Canal, swollen by the streams of the Atesis, descending from the Tridentine Alps, and of the Togisonus [Note], flowing from the territory of the Patavini. A portion of them also forms the adjoining port of Brundulum [Note], in the same manner as Edron [Note] is formed by the two rivers Meduacus and the Clodian Canal. With the waters of these streams the Padus unites, and with them discharges itself into the sea, forming, according to most writers, between the Alps and the sea-shore a triangular figure, 2000 stadia in circumference, not unlike the Delta formed by the Nile in Egypt. I feel somewhat ashamed to have to borrow from the Greeks any statement in reference to Italy; Metrodorus of Scepsos, however, informs us that this river has obtained its name of Padus from the fact, that about its source there are great numbers of pine-trees, which in the Gallic language are called "padi." In the tongue of the Ligurians this river is called "Bodincus," which signifies "the bottomless." This derivation is in some measure supported by the fact that near this river there is the town of Industria [Note], of which the ancient name was Bodincomagum, and where the river begins to be of greater depth than in other parts.
From the river Padus the eleventh region receives its name of Transpadana; to which, situate as it is wholly in the interior, the river, by its bounteous channel, conveys the gifts of all the seas. The towns are Vibî Forum [Note] and
Segusio; and, at the foot of the Alps, the colony of Augusta Taurinorum [Note], at which place the Padus becomes navigable, and which was founded by the ancient race of the Ligurians, and of Augusta Prætoria [Note] of the Salassi, near the two passes of the Alps, the Grecian [Note] and the Penine (by the latter it is said that the Carthaginians passed into Italy, by the Grecian, Hercules)—the town of Eporedia [Note], the foundation of which by the Roman people was enjoined by the Sibylline books; the Gauls call tamers of horses by the name of "Epore- diæ"—Vercellæ [Note], the town of the Libici, derived its origin from the Salluvii, and Novaria [Note], founded by the Vertacoma- cori, is at the present day a district of the Vocontii, and not, as Cato supposes, of the Ligurians; of whom two nations, called the Lævi and the Marici, founded Ticinum [Note], not far from the Padus, as the Boii, descended from the Transalpine nations, have founded Laus Pompeia [Note] and the Insubres Me- diolanum [Note].
From Cato we also learn that Comum, Bergomum [Note], and Licinîforum [Note], and some other peoples in the vicinity, originated with the Orobii, but he admits that he is ignorant as to the origin of that nation. Cornelius Alexander however informs us that they came from Greece, interpreting their name as meaning "those who live upon the mountains [Note]." In this district, Parra has disappeared, a town of the Orobii, from whom, according to Cato, the people of Bergomum are descended; its site even yet shows that it was situate in a position more elevated than fruitful [Note]. The Caturiges have also perished, an exiled race of the Insubres, as also Spina previously mentioned; Melpum too, a place distinguished for its opulence, which, as we are informed by Cornelius Nepos, was destroyed by the Insubres, the Boii, and the Senones, on the very day on which Camillus took Veii.
We now come to the tenth region of Italy, situate on the Adriatic Sea. In this district are Venetia [Note], the river Silis [Note], rising in the Tarvisanian [Note] mountains, the town of Alti-
num [Note], the river Liquentia rising in the mountains of Opitergium [Note], and a port with the same name, the colony of Concordia [Note]; the rivers and harbours of Romatinum [Note], the greater and less Tiliaventum [Note], the Anaxum [Note], into which the Varamus flows, the Alsa [Note], and the Natiso with the Turrus, which flow past the colony of Aquileia [Note] at a distance of fifteen miles from the sea. This is the country of the Carni [Note], and adjoining to it is that of the lapydes, the river Timavus [Note], the
fortress of Pucinum [Note], famous for its wines, the Gulf of Tergeste [Note], and the colony of that name, thirty-three miles from Aquileia. Six miles beyond this place lies the river Formio [Note], 189 miles distant from Ravenna, the ancient boundary [Note] of enlarged Italy, and now the frontier of Istria. That this region takes its name from the river Ister which flows from the Danube, also called the Ister, into the Adriatic opposite the mouth of the Padus, and that the sea which lies between them is rendered fresh by their waters running from opposite directions, has been erroneously asserted by many, and among them by Nepos even, who dwelt upon the banks of the Padus. For it is the fact that no river which runs from the Danube discharges itself into the Adriatic. They have been misled, I think, by the circumstance that the ship Argo came down some river into the Adriatic sea, not far from Tergeste; but what river that was is now unknown. The most careful writers say that the ship was carried across the Alps on men's shoulders, having passed along the Ister, then along the Savus, and so from Nauportus [Note], which place, lying between Æmona [Note] and the Alps, from that circumstance derives its name.
Istria projects in the form of a peninsula. Some writers have stated its length to be forty miles, and its circumference 125; and the same as to Liburnia which adjoins it, and the Flanatic Gulf [Note], while others make it 225 [Note]; others again make the circumference of Liburnia 180 miles. Some persons too extend Iapydia, at the back of Istria, as far as the Flanatic Gulf, a distance of 130 miles, thus making Liburnia but 150 miles. Tuditanus [Note], who subdued the Istri, had this inscription on his statue which was erected there: "From Aquileia to the river Titus is a distance of 1000 stadia."
The towns of Istria with the rights of Roman citizens are Ægida [Note], Parentium, and the colony of Pola [Note], now Pietas Julia, formerly founded by the Colchians, and distant from Tergeste 100 miles: after which we come to the town of Nesactium [Note], and the river Arsia, now [Note] the boundary of Italy. The distance across from Ancona to Pola is 120 miles. In
the interior of the tenth region are the colonies of Cremona, Brixia in the territory of the Cenomanni [Note], Ateste [Note] belonging to the Veneti, and the towns of Acelum [Note], Patavium [Note], Opitergium, Belunum [Note], and Vicetia; with Mantua [Note], the only city of the Tuscans now left beyond the Padus. Cato informs us that the Veneti are descendants of the Trojans [Note], and that the Cenomanni [Note] dwelt among the Volcæ in the vicinity of Massilia. There are also the towns of the Fertini [Note], the Tridentini [Note], and the Beruenses, belonging to the Rhæti, Verona [Note], belonging to the Rhæti and the Euganei, and Ju-
lienses [Note] to the Carni. We then have the following peoples, whom there is no necessity to particularize with any degree of exactness, the Alutrenses, the Asseriates, the Flamonienses [Note] with those surnamed Vanienses, and the others called Culici, the Forojulienses [Note] surnamed Transpadani, the Foretani, the Nedinates [Note], the Quarqueni [Note], the Taurisani [Note], the Togienses, and the Varvari. In this district there have disappeared—upon the coast—Iramene, Pellaon, and Palsatium, Atina and Cælina belonging to the Veneti, Segeste and Ocra to the Carni, and Noreia to the Taurisci. L. Piso also informs us that although the senate disapproved of his so doing, M. Claudius Marcellus [Note] razed to the ground a tower situate at the twelfth mile-stone from Aquileia.
In this region also and the eleventh there are some celebrated lakes [Note], and several rivers that either take their rise in them or else are fed by their waters, in those cases in which they again emerge from them. These are the Addua [Note], fed by the Lake Larius, the Ticinus by Lake Verbannus, the Mincius by Lake Benacus, the Ollius by Lake Sebinnus, and the Lambrus by Lake Eupilis—all of them flowing into the Padus.
Cælius states that the length of the Alps from the Upper Sea to the Lower is 1000 miles, a distance which Timagenes shortens by twenty-two. Cornelius Nepos assigns to them a breadth of 100 miles, and T. Livius of 3000 stadia; but then in different places. For in some localities they exceed 100 miles; where they divide Germany, for instance, from Italy; while in other parts they do not reach seventy, being thus narrowed by the providential dispensation of nature as it were. The breadth of Italy, taken from the river Var at the foot of these mountains, and passing along by the Vada [Note] Sabatia, the Taurini, Comum, Brixia, Verona, Vicetia, Opitergium, Aquileia, Tergeste, Pola, and Arsia, is 745 miles.
Many nations dwell among the Alps; but the more remarkable, between Pola and the district of Tergeste, are the Secusses, the Subocrini, the Catali, the Menocaleni, and near the Carni the people formerly called the Taurisci, but now the Norici. Adjoining to these are the Rhæti and the Vindelici, who are all divided into a multitude of states. It is supposed that the Rhæti are the descendants of the Tuscans, who were expelled by the Gauls and migrated hither under the command of their chief, whose name was Rhætus. Turning then to the side of the Alps which fronts Italy, we have the Euganean [Note] nations enjoying Latin rights, and of whom Cato enumerates thirty-four towns. Among these are the Triumpilini, a people who were sold [Note] with their territory; and then the Camuni, and several similar tribes, each of them in the jurisdiction of its neighbouring municipal town. The same author also considers the Lepontii [Note] and
the Salassi to be of Tauriscan origin, but most other writers, giving a Greek [Note] interpretation to their name, consider the Lepontii to have been those of the followers of Hercules who were left behind in consequence of their limbs being frozen by the snow of the Alps. They are also of opinion that the inhabitants of the Grecian Alps are descended from a portion of the Greeks of his army, and that the Euganeans, being sprung from an origin so illustrious, thence took their name [Note]. The head of these are the Stœni [Note]. The Vennonenses [Note] and the Sarunetes [Note], peoples of the Rhæti, dwell about the sources of the river Rhenus, while the tribe of the Lepontii, known as the Uberi, dwell in the vicinity of the sources of the lhodanus, in the same district of the Alps. There are also other native tribes here, who have received Latin rights, such as the Octodurenses [Note], and their neighbours the Centrones [Note], the Cottian [Note] states, the Ligurian Vagienni, descended from the Caturiges [Note], as also those called Montani [Note]; besides numerous nations of the Capillati [Note], on the confines of the Ligurian Sea.
It may not be inappropriate in this place to subjoin the inscription now to be seen upon the trophy [Note] erected on the Alps, which is to the following effect:—"To the Emperor Cæsar—The son [Note] of Cæsar now deified, Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, and emperor fourteen years, in the seventeenth [Note] year of his holding the tribuni- tial authority, the Senate and the Roman people, in remembrance that under his command and auspices all the Alpine nations which extended from the upper sea to the lower were reduced to subjection by the Roman people—The Alpine nations so sub- dued were: the Triumpilini, the Camuni, the Ve- nostes [Note], the Vennonenses, the Isarci, the Breuni, the Genaunes [Note], the Focunates, four nations of the Vindelici, the Consuanetes, the Rucinates, the Licates [Note], the Catenates, the Ambisontes, the Ru- gusci, the Suanetes [Note], the Calucones, the Brixentes, the Lepontii, the Uberi, the Nantuates, the Seduni, the Varagri, the Salassi, the Acitavones,
the Medulli, the Uceni [Note], the Caturiges, the Bri- giani, the Sogiontii, the Brodiontii, the Nemaloni, the Edenates [Note], the Esubiani, the Veamini, the Gal- litæ, the Triulatti, the Ecdini, the Vergunni, the Eguituri [Note], the Nementuri, the Oratelli, the Nerusi, the Velauni, and the Suetri."
The twelve states of the Cottiani [Note] were not included in the list, as they had shown no hostility, nor yet those which had been placed by the Pompeian law under the jurisdiction of the municipal towns.
Such then is Italy, sacred to the gods, such are the nations, such the cities of her peoples; to which we may add, that this is that same Italy, which, when L. Æmilius Paulus [Note] and C. Attilius Regulus were Consuls, on hearing of the rising in Gaul, unaided, and without any foreign assistance whatever, without the help even of that portion which lies beyond the Padus, armed 80,000 horse and 700,000 foot. In abundance of metals of every kind. Italy yields to no land whatever; but all search for them has been prohibited by an ancient decree of the Senate, who gave orders thereby that Italy shall be exempted [Note] from such treatment.
The nation of the Liburni adjoins the river Arsia [Note], and
extends as far as the river Titus. The Mentores, the Hymani [Note], the Encheleæ, the Buni, and the people whom Callimachus calls the Peucetiæ, formerly formed part of it; but now the whole in general are comprised under the one name of Illyricum. But few of the names of these nations are worthy of mention, or indeed very easy of pronunciation. To the jurisdiction of Scardona [Note] resort the Iapydes and fourteen cities of the Liburni, of which it may not prove tedious if I mention the Lacinienses, the Stlupini, the Burnistæ, and the Olbonenses. Belonging to the same jurisdiction there are, in the enjoyment of Italian rights, the Alutæ [Note], the Flanates [Note], from whom the Gulf takes its name, the Lopsi, and the Varvarini; the Assesiates, who are exempt from tribute; and upon the islands, the Fertinates and the Curicttæ [Note].
Besides these, there are on the coast, after leaving Nesactium, Alvona [Note], Flanona, Tarsatica, Senia, Lopsica, Ortopula, Vegium, Argyruntum, Corinium [Note], Ænona, the city of Pasinum, and the river Tedanius, at which Iapydia terminates. The islands of this Gulf, with their towns, besides those above mentioned, are Absyrtium [Note], Arba [Note], Crexa, Gissa,
and Portunata. Again, on the mainland there is the colony of Iadera [Note], distant from Pola 160 miles; then, at a distance of thirty miles, the island of Colentum [Note], and of eighteen, the mouth of the river Titus.
Scardona, situate upon the river [Note], at a distance of twelve miles from the sea, forms the boundary of Liburnia and the beginning of Dalmatia. Next to this place comes the ancient country of the Autariatares and the fortress of Tariona, the Promontory of Diomedes [Note], or, as others call it, the peninsula of Hyllis, 100 miles [Note] in circuit. Then comes Tragurium, a place with the rights of Roman citizens, and celebrated for its marble, Sicum, a place to which Claudius, the emperor lately deified, sent a colony of his veterans, and Salona [Note], a colony, situate 112 miles from ladera. To this place resort for legal purposes, having the laws dispensed according to their divisions into decuries or tithings, the Dahmatæ, forming 342 decuries, the Deurici 22, the Ditiones 239, the Mazæi 269, and the Sardiates 52. In this region are Burnum [Note], Andetrium [Note], and Tribulium, fortresses ennobled by the battles of the Roman people. To the same jurisdiction also belong the Issæi [Note], the Colentini, the Separi, and the
Epetini, nations inhabiting the islands. After these come the fortresses of Peguntium [Note] and of Rataneum, with the colony of Narona [Note], the seat of the third jurisdiction, distant from Salona eighty-two miles, and situate upon a river of the same name, at a distance of twenty miles from the sea. M. Varro states that eighty-nine states used to resort thither, but now nearly the only ones that are known are the Cerauni [Note] with 24 decuries, the Daorizi with 17, the Dæsitiates with 103, the Docleatæ with 33, the Deretini with 14, the Deremistæ with 30, the Dindari with 33, the Glinditiones with 44, the Melcomani with 24, the Naresii with 102, the Scirtarii with 72, the Siculotæ with 24, and the Vardæi, once the scourges of Italy, with no more than 20 decuries. In addition to these, this district was possessed by the Ozuæi, the Partheni, the Hemasini, the Arthitæ, and the Armistæ. The colony of Epidaurum [Note] is distant from the river Naron 100 miles. After Epidaurum come the following towns, with the rights of Roman citizens:—Rhizinium [Note], Acruvium [Note], Butua, Olcinium, formerly called Colchinium, having been founded by the Colchians; the river Drilo [Note], and, upon it, Scodra [Note], a town with the rights of Roman citizens, situate at a distance of eighteen miles from the sea; besides in former times many Greek towns and once powerful states, of which all remem-
brance is fast fading away. For in this region there were formerly the Labeatæ, the Enderini [Note], the Sasæi, the Grabæi [Note], properly called Illyrii, the Taulantii [Note], and the Pyrei. The Promontory of Nymphæum on the sea-coast still retains its name [Note]; and there is Lissum, a town enjoying the rights of Roman citizens, at a distance from Epidaurum of 100 miles.
(23.) At Lissum begins the province of Macedonia [Note], the nations of the Parthini [Note], and behind them the Dassaretæ [Note]. The mountains of Candavia [Note] are seventy-eight miles from Dyrrhachium. On the coast lies Denda, a town with the rights of Roman citizens, the colony of Epidamnum [Note], which, on account of its inauspicious name, was by the Romans called Dyrrhachium, the river Aöus [Note], by' some called Æas, and Apollonia [Note], formerly a colony of the Corinthians, at a distance of four miles from the sea, in the vicinity of which
the celebrated Nymphæum [Note] is inhabited by the barbarous Amantes [Note] and Buliones. Upon the coast too is the town of Oricum [Note], founded by the Colchians. At this spot begins Epirus, with the Acroceraunian [Note] mountains, by which we have previously mentioned [Note] this Gulf of Europe as bounded. Oricum is distant from the Promontory of Salentinum in Italy eighty [Note] miles.
In the rear of the Carni and the Iapydes, along the course of the great river Ister [Note], the Rhæti touch upon the Norici [Note]: their towns are Virunum [Note], Celeia, Teurnia, Aguntum [Note], Vianiomina [Note], Claudia [Note], and Flavium Solvense [Note]. Adjoining to the Norici is Lake Peiso [Note], and the deserts of
the Boii [Note]; they are however now inhabited by the people of Sabaria [Note], a colony of the now deified emperor Claudius, and the town of Scarabantia Julia [Note].
Next to them comes acorn-bearing Pannonia [Note], along which the chain of the Alps, gradually lessening as it runs through the middle of Illyricum from north to south, forms a gentle slope on the right hand and the left. The portion which looks towards the Adriatic Sea is called Dalmatia and Illyricum, above mentioned, while Pannonia stretches away towards the north, and has the Danube for its extreme boundary. In it are the colonies of Æmona [Note] and Siscia. The following rivers, both known to fame and adapted for commerce, flow into the Danube; the Draus [Note], which rushes from Noricum with great impetuosity, and the Savus [Note], which flows with a more gentle current from the Carnic Alps, there being a space between them of 120 miles. The Draus runs through the Serretes, the Serrapilli [Note], the Iasi, and the Andizetes; the Savus through the Colapiani [Note] and the Breuci; these are the principal peoples. Besides them there are the Arivates, the Azali, the Amantini, the Belgites, the Catari, the Cornacates, the Eravisci, the Hercuniates [Note], the
Latovici, the Oseriates, the Varciani, and, in front of Mount Claudius, the Scordisci, behind it the Taurisci. In the Savus there is the island of Metubarris [Note], the greatest of all the islands formed by rivers. Besides the above, there are these other rivers worthy of mention:—the Colapis [Note], which flows into the Savus near Siscia, where, dividing its channel, it forms the island which is called Segestica [Note] a; and the river Bacuntius [Note], which flows into the Savus at the town of Sirmium, where we find the state of the Sirmienses and the Amantini. Forty-five miles thence is Taurunum [Note], where the Savus flows into the Danube; above which spot the Valdanus [Note] and the Urpanus, themselves far from ignoble rivers, join that stream.
Joining up to Pannonia is the province called Mœsia [Note], which runs, with the course of the Danube, as far as the Euxine. It commences at the confluence [Note] previously mentioned. In it are the Dardani, the Celegeri, the Triballi, the Timachi, the Mœsi, the Thracians, and the Scythians who border on the Euxine. The more famous among its rivers are the Margis [Note], which rises in the territory of the Dardani, the Pingus, the Timachus, the Œscus which rises in Mount Rhodope, and, rising in Mount Hæmus, the Utus [Note], the Asamus, and the Ieterus.
The breadth of Illyricum [Note] at its widest part is 325 miles, and its length from the river Arsia to the river Drinius 530; from the Drinius to the Promontory of Acroceraunia Agrippa states to be 175 miles, and he says that the entire circuit of the Italian and Illyrian Gulf is 1700 miles. In this Gulf, according to the limits which we have drawn, are two seas, the Ionian [Note] in the first part, and the Adriatic, which runs more inland and is called the Upper Sea.
In the Ausonian Sea there are no islands worthy of notice beyond those which we have already mentioned, and only a few in the Ionian; those, for instance, upon the Calabrian coast, opposite Brundusium, by the projection of which a harbour is formed; and, over against the Apulian coast, Diomedia [Note], remarkable for the monument of Diomedes, and another island called by the same name, but by some Teutria.
The coast of Illyricum is clustered with more than 1000 islands, the sea being of a shoaly nature, and numerous creeks and æstuaries running with their narrow channels between portions of the land. The more famous are those before the mouths of the Timavus, with warm springs [Note] that rise with the tides of the sea, the island of Cissa near the territory of the Istri, and the Pullaria [Note] and Absyrtides [Note], so called by the Greeks from the circumstance of Absyrtus, the brother of Medea, having been slain there. Some islands near them have been called the Electrides [Note], upon which amber, which they call "electrum," was said to be found; a most assured instance however of that untruthfulness [Note] which is generally ascribed to the Greeks, seeing that it has never vet been ascertained which of the islands were meant by them under that name. Opposite to the Iader is Lissa, and other islands whose names have been already mentioned [Note]. Opposite to the Liburni are some islands called the Crateæ, and no smaller number styled Liburniecæ and Celadussæ [Note]. Opposite to Surium is Bavo, and Brattia [Note],
famous for its goats, Issa with the rights of Roman citizens, and Pharia with a town. At a distance of twenty-five miles from Issa is Corcyra [Note], surnamed Melæna, with a town founded by the Cnidians; between which and Illyricum is Melite [Note], from which, as we learn from Callimachus, a certain kind of little dogs were called Melitæi; fifteen miles from it we find the seven Elaphites [Note]. In the Ionian Sea, at a distance of twelve miles from Oricum, is Sasonis [Note], notorious from having been a harbour of pirates.
Summary.—The towns and nations mentioned are in number**** [Note]. The rivers of note are in number****. The mountains of note are in number****. The islands are in number****. The towns or nations which have disappeared are in number****. The facts, statements, and observations are in number 326.
Roman Authors quoted.—Turannius Gracilis [Note], Cornelius Nepos [Note], T. Livius [Note], Cato the Censor [Note], M. Agrip-
pa [Note], M. Varro [Note], the Emperor Augustus [Note] now deified, Varro Atacinus [Note], Antias [Note], Hyginus [Note], L. Vetus [Note], Pomponius Mela [Note],
Curio [Note] the Elder, Cælius [Note], Arruntius [Note], Sebosus [Note], Licinius Mucianus [Note], Fabricius Tuscus [Note], L. Ateius [Note], Capito [Note], Verrius Flaccus [Note], L. Piso [Note], Gellianus [Note], and Valerianus [Note].
Foreign Authors quoted.—Artemidorus [Note], Alexander
Polyhistor [Note], Thucydides [Note], Theophrastus [Note], Isidorus [Note], Theopompus [Note], Metrodorus of Scepsis [Note], Callicrates [Note], Xenophon of Lampsacus [Note], Diodorus of Syracuse [Note], Nymphodorus [Note], Calliphanes [Note], and Timagenes [Note].
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