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forms tlie extensive port known as that of Yatrenus, \Yliere 

 Claudius Caesar', 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 con- 

 clusion from the amount of its treasure deposited at Delphi ; 

 it was founded by Diomedes. At this spot the river Yatre- 

 nus-, which flows from the territory of Forum Cornell, swells 

 the waters of the Padus. 



The next mouth to this is that of Caprasia^, then that 

 of Sagis, and then Yolane, formerly called Olane ; all of 

 which are situate upon the Flavian CanaP, which the Tus- 

 cans formerly made from Sagis, thus drawing the impe- 

 tuous 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 ^, 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 Carbo- 

 naria, and the Fosses of Philistina®, by some called Tarta- 



* It was on this occasion that, after a stay of only a few days in Britain, 

 he quitted the island, i-eturned to Rome, and celebrated a splendid tri- 

 umph. This outlet of the Po has now the name of Po di Primero. 



2 Now the Santerno, noted for the sluggishness of its waters. 



2 The Ostium Caprasiae is now called the Porto Interito di Bell' Ochio, 

 the Ostium Sagis the Porto di Magnavacca ; Volane, or Yolana, is the 

 south maua branch of the river. The Ostia Carbonaria, mentioned below, 

 was the north main branch, subdivided into several small branches ; and 

 the Fossa) or Fossiones Pliihstinaj connected the river, by means of tho 

 Tartarus, with the Athesis. 



■* The reading is doubtful here, and even this, which is perhaps the best, 

 appears to be corrupt ; for it is difficult to conceive how all the mouths 

 previously mentioned could have been upon one canal, and besides it 

 would seem that Olane was one of the natural mouths of tlie river. 



' More generally Adria, from which, as Pliny says, the Adriatic takes 

 its name. Either a Greek, or, what is more probable, as Pliny states, an 

 Etruscan colony, it became the principal em])orium of trade with the 

 Adriatic, in consequence of which it was surrounded with canals and 

 other works to facilitate its communications with other rivers. It ia 

 still called Adria, and in its vicinity to the south, considerable remains 

 of the ancient city are still to be seen, 



* So called from the Philistsei, said to have been the ancient inhabit- 



