BOOK III. XTX. 129-131 



Italy. The distance across from Ancona to Pola 

 is 120 miles. 



In the interior of the tenth region are the colonies ^?^'y> . 

 of Cremona and Brescia in the territory of the 

 Cenomani, and Este in that of the Veneti, and the 

 towns of Asolo, Padua, Oderzo, Belluno, Vicenza 

 and Mantua, thc only remaining Tuscan town across 

 the Po. According to Cato, the \'eneti are descended 

 from a Trojan stock, and the Cenomani lived among 

 the Volcae in the neighbourhood of Marseilles. 

 There are also the Rhaetic towns of Feltre, Trent 

 and Berua, Verona which belongs to the Rhaeti and 

 Euganei jointly, and ZugUo which belongs to the 

 Carni ; then peoples that we need not be concerned 

 to designate with more particularity, the Alutrenscs, 

 Asseriates, Flamonienses " Vanienses and other 

 Flamonienses surnamed Curici, the Foroj uHenscs * 

 surnamed Transpadani, Foretani, Nedinates,'^ Quar- 

 queni,"^ Tarvisani,*^ Togienses, Varvari. In this district 

 there have disappeared, on the coast-Hne, Irmene, 

 Pellaon, Palsicium, Atina and Caehna belonging 

 to the Veneti, Segesta and Ocra to the Carni, 

 Noreia to the Taurisci. Also Lucius Piso states 

 that a tovm 12 miles from Aquilcia was destroyed 

 bv Marcus Claudius Marcellus, although against 

 the wish of the Senate. 



This reffion also contains eleven famous lakes and Theiuaian 

 the rivers of which they are the source, or which, ^*'*- 

 in the case of those that after entering the lakes 

 leave them again, are augmented by them — for 

 instance the Arlda that flows through Lake Como, 

 the Ticino through Maggiore, the Mincio through 

 Garda, the Seo through the Lngo di Seo, and the 



• Treviso. 



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