256 pliin^t's natueal history. [Book III. 



It may not be inappropriate in this place to subjoin the 

 inscription now to be seen upon the trophy^ erected on the 

 Alps, which is to the following effect : — " To the Emperor 

 CiESAR — The son^ of C^sar now deified, Augustus, 



PONTIFEX MaXIMUS, AND EMPEROR FOURTEEN YEARS, IN 

 THE SEVENTEENTH^ 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 EOMAN PEOPLE ThE AlPINE NATIONS SO SUB- 

 DUED WERE: THE TrIUMPILINI, THE CaMUNI, THE Ve- 

 NOSTES^, THE VeNNONENSES, THE ISARCI, THE BrEUNI, 

 THE GeNAUNES^, the PoCUNATES, FOUR NATIONS OF THE 

 ViNDELICI, THE CONSUANETES, THE EUCINATES, THE 

 LlCATES^, THE CATENATES, THE AmBISONTES, THE Eu- 

 GUSCI, THE SUANETES^, THE CaLUCONES, THE BrIX- 

 ENTES, THE LePONTII, THE UbERI, THE NaNTUATES, THE 



Seduni, the Yaragri, THE Salassi, the Acitayones, 



^ The trophy or triumphal arch which bore tliis inscription is that 

 which was still to be seen at Torbia near Nicsea in Illyria, in the time of 

 Gruter, who has given that portion of the inscription wliich remained 

 unobhterated, down to " gentes Alpinse," " the Alpine nations." Har- 

 douin speaks of another triumphal arch in honoxir of Augustus at Segusio 

 or Susa in Piedmont, which appears to have commenced in a somewhat 

 similar manner, but only the first twelve words were remaining in 1671. 



2 Adopted son of his great uncle Juhus Caesar. 



2 Most of the MSS. omit the figures XVII here, but it is evidently 

 an accident ; if indeed they were omitted in the original. 



■* They are supposed to have occupied the Val Venosco, at the sources 

 of the Adige. The Isarci dwelt in the Val de Sarra or Sarcha, near Val 

 Camonica ; and the Bremii in the Val Brounia or Bregna, at the som*ce 

 of thcTessino. 



^ D'Anville thinks that they inhabited the Val d'Agno, near Trento, 

 between Lake Como and the Adige. He also detects the name of the 

 Focimates m the vUlage of Vogogna. 



^ They inhabited the banks of the river Lech, their town being, ac- 

 cording to Strabo, Damasia, afterwards Augusta Vindehcorum, now 

 Augsburg. 



7 Probably the Sarunetes, already mentioned. The Brixentes inha- 

 bited the modern Brixen in the Tyrol. The Lepontii have been pre- 

 Tiously mentioned. The Seduni occupied the present Sion, the capital 

 of the Valais. The Salassi have been already mentioned. According to 

 Bouchc, the MeduUi occupied the modern Maurienne in Savoy. The 

 Varagri dwelt in Le Chablais. 



