BOOK III. V. 51-53 



founded it, Alsium, Fregenae, and the river Tiber, 

 284 miles from the Magra. Inland are the colonies 

 of Falisca, founded according to Cato by the Argives 

 and surnamed Falisca of the Etruscans, Lucus 

 Feroniae, Rusellana, Siena and Sutria. The remain- 

 ing people are the Arretini " Veteres, Arretini 

 I"identiores, Arretini Julienses, Amitinenses, 

 Aquenses surnamed Taurini, Blerani, Cortonenses,* 

 Capenates, Clusini "^ Novi, Clusini Veteres, the 

 Florentini <* on the bank of the Arno that flows 

 by, Faesulae,* Ferentinum, Fescennia, Hortanum, 

 Herbanimi, Nepi, Nine Villages, the Claudian 

 Prefecture of Foroclodium, Pistorium, Perugia, the 

 Suanenses, the Saturnini formerly called the Aurini, 

 the Subertani, Statonenses, Tarquinienses, Tus- 

 canienses, V^etulonienses, Veientani, Vesentini, 

 \ olaterrani,-^ the Volcentani surnamed Etrusci, and 

 Volsinienses.!' In the same district the territories of 

 Crustumium and Caletra still keep the names of the 

 ancient towns. 



The Tiber, the former name of which was Thybris, The nver 

 and before that Albula, rises in about the middle of ^*'"'^" 

 the Apennine chain in the territor}' of Arezzo. At first 

 it is a narrow stream, only navigable when its water 

 is dammed by sluices and then discharged, in the 

 same way as its tributaries, the Tinia and the Chiana, 

 the waters of which must be so collected for nine days, 

 imless augmented by showers of rain. But the Tiber, 

 owing to its rugged and uneven channel, is even so 

 not navigable for a long distance, except for rafts, 

 or rather logs of wood ; in a course of 150 miles 

 it divides Etruria from the Umbrians and Sabines, 

 passing not far from Tifernum, Perugia and Ocri- 

 culuin, and then, less than 16 miles from Rome, 



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