BOOK III. V. 48-51 



the i-iver Fertor, Porto Fino, Tigulia inland, Scstri di 

 Levante, and the river Magra, which is the boundary 

 of Liguria. Behind all the above-mentioned lie thc 

 Apennines, the largest range of mountains in Italy, 

 extending in an unbroken chain from the Alps to the 

 Straits of Messina. On one side of the range, along 

 the Po, the richest river of Italy, the whole country 

 is studded with famous and flourishing towns : 

 Libarna, the colony of Dertona, Iria, Vardacas, 

 Industria, Pollenza, Correa surnamed Potentia, 

 Forum Fulvi or Valenza, Augusta of the Bagienni, 

 Alba Pompeia, Aste, Acqui. Under the partition of 

 Auffustus this is the ninth reirion. The coast of Lie;uria 

 extends 211 miles between the rivers Var and Magra. 



The adjoining region is the seventh, in which is Eiruria. 

 Etruria, beginning at the river Magra, a district that 

 has often changed its name. From it in ancient 

 times the Umbri were driven out by the Pelasgi, and 

 these by the Lydians, who after a king of theirs were 

 styled Tvrrheni, but later in the Greek language 

 Tusci," from their ritual of offering sacrifice. The 

 first to^ra in Etruria is Luni, famous for its harbour; 

 then the colony of Lucca, some way from the sea and 

 nearer to Pisa, between the rivers Auser* and Arno, 

 which owes its origin to the Pelopidae or to the 

 Greek tribe of the Teutani ; then come the Marshes 

 of \'olterra,'^ the river Cecina and Piombino, once 

 the onlv Etruscan towTi on the coast. After these 

 is the river Prile, and then the navigable river 

 Ombrone, at which begias the district of Umbria, 

 the port of Telamone, Cosa of the Volcientes, founded 

 by the Iloman people, Graviscae, Castrum Novum, 

 Pyrgi, the rivcr"^ and the town of Caere, seven 

 miles inland, called Agylla by the Pelasgians who 



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