BOOK III. V. 45-48 



Sicily 1-|, from Corcyra less than 80, from Issa " 50. 

 It stretches through the seas in a southerly direction, 

 but a more careful and accurate calculation would 

 place it between due south and sunrise * at midwinter. 



We will now give an account of a circuit of Administra- 

 Italy, and of its cities. Herein it is necessary to andcities. 

 premise that we intend to foUow the authority of his 

 late Majesty Augustus, and to adopt the division that 

 he made of the whole of Italy into eleven regions, 

 but to take them in the order that will be suggested 

 by the coast-hne, it being indeed impossible, at all 

 events in a very cursory account, to keep the neigh- 

 bouring cities together ; and so in going on to deal 

 with the inland districts we shall follow the 

 Emperor's alphabetical arrangement, adopting the 

 enumeration of the colonies that he set out in that 

 hst. Nor is it easy to trace their sites and origins, 

 the Ligurian Ingauni, for example — not to mention 

 the other peoples — having received gi*ants of land 

 on thirty occasions. 



Therefore starting from the river Var we have Nice, Liguria. 

 founded by the people of Marseilles, the river Pag- 

 hone, the Alps and the Alpine tribes with many 

 names, of which the chief is the Long-haired ; Cimiez, 

 the town of the state of the Vediantii, the port of 

 Hercules of Monaco, and the Ligurian coast. Of 

 the Ligurians beyond the Alps the most famous are 

 the Sallui, Deciates and Oxubi ; on this side, the 

 Veneni, Turri, Soti, Vagienni, StatieHi, BinbelH, 

 Maielli, Cuburriates, Casmonates, Velleiates, and 

 the tribes whose towns on tlie coast we shall mention 

 next. The river Royas, the town of Ventimigha, 

 the river Merula, the town of Albenga, the port of 

 Vai or Savona, the river Bisagna, the town of Genoa, 



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