Non-Hellenic Portion of the Latin Language. 499 
Italy ;”’ by Pury, that “ they were deemed to be the most an- 
cient nation of Italy ;” by Dionysius of Halicarnassus,’ that the 
“ Ombrici were a nation of peculiar greatness and antiquity.” 
Herroporus’ states, that the Lydian Tyrsenians (according 
to him, the germ of the Tuscan race), settled among the people 
called by the Greeks Ogio, and supposed by some of their 
writers to have derived their name from their having survived 
the general deluge [o~¢0;]. We also learn from him that their 
country was of great and indefinite extent. In the words of 
Nrezunr, “ It stretched to the foot of the Alps, for the rivers 
Karpis and Alpis, one of which is certainly represented by the 
Inn,’ flowed from the country above the Umbrici.” According 
to Scyiax,’ Umbria included Picenum, as he places Ancona 
within its limits. . 
From Puiny’ we further learn that the Tuscans took no less 
than three hundred towns from the Umbri, in other words, “that 
the whole Tuscan territory had once been Umbrian.” From 
these authorities it is evident that the Umbri, at a remote pe- 
riod, occupied the greatest portion of Northern Italy. The Li- 
over it, to represent the sound ee. The soft sound of the d I shall leave unmarked, 
as it was in the older writers. 
‘© Antiquissimus Italiz populus.” Lib. i. cap. 17. 
* “ Gens antiquissima Italie.” Lib. iii. cap. xiv. 
Mary ouPeinor eOvos Ev ros mroy fey, nour cepryausoy. Lib. i. 
omen yevos yurdlov xo: cormiav. Jzetzes, Lye. cap. 199. 
To these may be added the testimony of the Historical F ragments ascribed to 
Varro: “ Ex his venisse Janum ceu Ogri et Gallis progenitoribus Umbrorum.” Ed. 
Lugd. 1560. 
* Book i. cap. 94. 
° Herod. Lib. iv. cap. 49. 
Ex 6¢ rng xoilumegde ues oBernay Kagmis mlawos xa wrdos Amis olauos, eos Bogny 
beovles cavepuov, xou dvlor exdsOovor eG Iolgov. 
* Page 6. 
7 Lib. 3. cap. 14,“ Tercentum eorum oppida Tusci debellasse referuntur.” 
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