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enses\ wlio take tlieir name from Lepidus, tlie Solonates^, 

 the Saltus Gralliani^, surnamed Aquinates, the Tannetani'', 

 the Yeliates^, \Yho were anciently surnamed Eegiates, and 

 the Urbanates^ In this district the Boii' have disappeared, 

 of whom there were 112 tribes according to Cato ; as also 

 the Senones, who captured Home. 



(16.) The Padus** descends from the bosom of Mount 

 Yesulus, one of the most elevated points of the chain of the 

 Alps, in the territories of the Ligurian Vagienni^, and rises 

 at its source in a manner that w^ell merits an inspection by 

 the curious ; after which it hides itself in a subterranean 

 channel luitil it rises again in the country of the Eorovibi- 

 enses. It is inferior in fame to none whatever among tlie 

 rivers, being known to the Greeks as the Eridanus and famous 

 as the scene of the punishment of Phaeton^". 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 



1 So named after ^miliiis Lepidus. The people of Eegium Lepidum, 

 the site of whose to\^Ta is occupied by the modern Rcggio. 



2 Solonatium is supposed to have had the site of the modem Citta di 

 Sole or Torre di Sole. 



3 Nothing certain is known of this people or their town, but it is 

 thought by Eezzonico that by tliis name were meant those who occu- 

 pied the wood-clad heights of the Apennines, above Modena and Parma. 

 Cicero mentions a Saltus GaUicanus as bemg a mountain of Campania, 

 but that is clearly not the spot meant here. 



^ Their town is thought to have stood on the same site as the modern 

 Tenedo. 



^ Their town was perhaps on the same site as the modem Yillac, on 

 the river Nura. 



^ The modem city of Ombria probably stands on the site of Xlrbana, 

 their town, of which considerable remains are still to be seen. 



7 These and the Senones were nations of Cisalpine Gaul. Tlic Boii 

 emigrated originally fi'om Transalpine Gaul, by the Penine Alps, or the 

 Pass of Great St. Bernard. They were completely subdued by Scipio 

 Nasica in B.C. -191, when he destroyed half of their population, and 

 deprived them of nearly half of their lands. Tlicy were ultimately driven 

 from their settlements, and established themselves in the modern Bohe- 

 mia, which from them takes its name. The Senones, who had taken the 

 city of Rome in B.C. 390, were conquered and the greater part of them 

 destroyed by the Consul DolabeUa in B.C. 283. 



8 The Po, which rises in Monte Viso in Savoy. 



^ Already mentioned in C. 7 of the present Book. 

 ^^ Ovid in liis account of the adventure of Phaeton (Met. B. ii.) states 

 that he fell into the river Padus. 



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