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are the Auximates\ the Beregrani", the Cingulani, the Cu- 

 prenses surnamed Montani^, the Falarienses^, the Pausulani, 

 the Plauinenses, the Ricinenses, the Septempedani^, the 

 Toilentinates, the Treienses, and the Pollentini of Urhs 

 Salvia^ 



CHAP. 19. (14.) — THE SIXTH EEGION OE ITALY. 



Adjoining to this is the sixth region, which includes Um- 

 hria and the Gallic territory in the vicinity of Ariminum. 

 At Ancona begins the coast of that part of Graul kno\\Ti as 

 Gallia Togata^. The Siculi and the Liburni possessed the 

 greater part of this district, and more particularly the terri- 

 tories of Palma, of Prsetutia, and of Adria. These were 

 expelled by the Umbri, these again by the Etrurians, and 

 these in their tiuTi by the Gauls. The Umbri are thought 

 to have been the most ancient race in Italy, it being sup- 

 posed that they were called " Ombrii" by the Greeks, from the 

 fact of their having survived the rains^ which had inundated 



* The modem city of Osimo stands on the site of Axiximum, about 

 twelve miles south-west of Ancona. Numerous inscriptions, statues, and 

 other remains have been found there. 



2 Cluver conjectures that Beregra stood at Civitella di Tronto, ten 

 miles north of Teramo ; but nothing further relative to it is known. Cin- 

 gulum was situate on a lofty moxmtain ; the modern town of Cingoli 

 occupies its site. 



3 " The mountaineers." They inhabited Cupra Montana, which is sup- 

 posed to have stood on the same site as the modern Ripa Transone. 



* The people of Falaria or Faleria. There are considerable remains of 

 this town about a niile from the village of Falerona, among wliich a 

 theatre and amphitheatre are most conspicuous. The remains of Pausula 

 are supposed to be those seen on the Monte deU' Olmo. The town of 

 the Ricinenses is supposed to have been on the banks of the Potenza, 

 two miles from Macerata, where some remains were to be seen in the 

 seventeenth century. 



* Septcmpeda is supposed to have occupied the site of the modern San 

 Severino, on the river Potenza. ToUentinum or ToUentura was probably 

 on the site of the modem Tolentino. The town of the Treienses is sup- 

 posed to have occupied a site near the modem San Severino, in the vici- 

 nity of Monteccliio. 



^ A colony of the people of Pollentia was estabhshcd at Urbs Salvia, 

 occupying the site of the modem Urbisaglia on the bank of the Chiento. 



7 Cisalpine Gaul was so called because the mhabitants adopted the use 

 of the Roman toga. 



8 This fanciful derivation would make their name to come from the 

 Greek 6fi(ipos " a Bhower." 



