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formerly free, and the Lingones\ a federal state, the federal 

 Eemi-, the Mediomatriei^, the Sequaui*, the Eaiiriei', and 

 the Helvetii®. The Eoman colonies are Equestris'' and 

 Eauriaca^. The nations of Germany which dwell in this 

 province, near the sources of the Ehine, are the JN'emetes^, 

 the Triboci^^, and the Vangiones" ; nearer again ^^, the Ubii'^, 

 the Colony '■* of Agrippina, the Cugerni^% the Batavi^^, and 

 the peoples whom we have already mentioned as dwelling 

 on the islands of the Ehine. 



CHAP. 32. (18.) — GALLIA LUGDUNENSIS. 



That part of Gaul which is known as Lugdunensis-' con- 



* Their chief town was on the site of Langrcs, in the department of 

 the Haute Marne. 



2 They gave name to the city of Rlieims m the department of the Marne. 



3 Their chief town stood on the site of the modern Metz, in the 

 department of the IVIoselle. 



■* Besanfon stands on the site of their chief town, in the department 

 of the Doubs, extending as far as Bale. 



^ The inhabitants of the district called the Haut Ehin or Higher Rhine. 



^ The inhabitants of tlie west of Switzerland. 



"^ Or the "Equestrian Colony," probably founded by theRomanEquites. 

 It is not known where this colony was situate, but it is suggested by 

 Cluver and Monetus that it may have been on the lake of Geneva, in the 

 vicinity of the modern to^vn of Xyon. 



^ Littre, in a note, remarks that Rauriaca is a barbarism, and that the 

 readuig properly is " Ra\irica." 



^ Spire was their chief city, in the province of the Rhine. 



^^ They are supposed to have occupied Strasbourg, aiad the greater part 

 of the department of the Lower Rliine. 



^^ They dwelt in the modem Grand Duchy of HesseDarmstadt ; "Worms 

 was their chief city. ^- That is, nearer the mouths of the Rliine. 



^3 They originally dwelt on the right bank of the Rhine, but were 

 transported across the river by Agrippa in B.C. 37, at their own request, 

 fi'om a wish to escape the attacks of the Suevi. 



^^ Now known as the city of Cologne. It took its name from Agrippina, 

 the wife of ClaucHus and the mother of Nero, who was born tliore, and who, 

 as Tacitus says, to show olFher power to the allied nations, planted a colony 

 of veteran soldiers in her native city, and gave to it her own name. 



'5 Their district was in the modem circle of Cloves, in the province of 

 Juhers-Berg- Cloves. 



'^ Dwelhng in the Insula Batavorum, mentioned in C. 29 of the pre- 

 sent Book. 



'7 He first speaks of the nations on the coast, and then of those more 

 in the interior. 



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