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Lambro through Lago di Pusiano — all of these 

 streams being tributaries of the Po. 



The length of the Alps from the Adriatic to the Therange 

 Mediterranean is given by Caehus as 1000 miles ; ''•'^"^'*'^*' 

 Timagenes puts it at 25 miles less. Their breadth 

 is given by CorneUus Nepos as 100 miles, by Livy 

 as 375 miles," but they take their measurements 

 at difTerent points ; for occasionally the Alps exceed 

 even 100 miles in breadth, where they divide Germany 

 from Italy, while in the remaining part they are as 

 it were providentially narrow and do not cover 70 

 miles. The breadth of Italy at the roots of the Alps, 

 measured from the river Var through Vado, the 

 port of Savo, Turin, Como, Brescia, Verona, Vicenza, 

 Oderzo, Aqui^-^ia, Trieste and Pola, to the river Arsa, 

 amounts to 745 miles. 



XX. The Alps are inhabited by a great many Aipine 

 nations, but the notable ones, between Pola and the ^'^'^"- 

 district of Trieste, are the Fecusses, Subocrini, Catali 

 and Menoncaleni, and next to the Carni the peoples 

 formerly called Taurisci and now Norici ; adjoining 

 these are the Raeti and VindeHci. All are divided 

 into a number of states. The Raeti are believed 

 to be people of Tuscan race driven out by the Gauls ; 

 their leader was named Raetus. Then, on the side 

 of the Alps towards Italy, are the Euganean races 

 having the Latin rights, whose towns listed by Cato 

 number 34. Among these are the Triumpilini,* 

 a people that sold themselves <^ together with their 

 lands, and then the Camunni <* and a number of 

 similar peoples, assigned to the jurisdiction of the 

 neighbouring municipal towTis. Cato before men- 

 tioned considers the Lepontii ' and Salassi / to be 

 of Tauriscan origin, but almost all other authors give 



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