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and Vindelici note [the Norici come next after the Vindelici in an easterly direction,] note and the desert of the Boii. note The nations as far as the Pannonians, note but more especially the Helvetii and Vindelici, inhabit high table lands. The Rhaeti and the Norici, note verging towards Italy, extend over the very summits of the Alps; the former confining with the Insubri, note the latter the Carni, note and the districts about Aquileia. There is likewise another great forest, named Gabreta, on this side the territory of the Suevi, while beyond them lies the Hercynian Wood, which also is in their possession.
SOME of the accounts which we receive respecting the Cimbri are not worthy of credit, while others seem likely enough: for instance, no one could accept the reason given for their wandering life and piracy, that, dwelling on a peninsula, they were driven out of their settlements by a very high tide; note for they still to this day possess the country which they had in former times, and have sent as a present to Au-
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