BOOK III. XX. 134-136 



a Greek interpretation to their name and believe 

 that the Lepontii ave descended from companions 

 of Hercules ' left behind ' " because their limbs had 

 been frostbitten in crossing the Alps ; and that the 

 inhabitants of the Graian * Alps were also Grai 

 from the same band, and that the Euganei were of 

 specially distinguished family, and took their name 

 from that fact ; <^ and that the head of these arc 

 the Stoeni. The Raetian tribes Vennones and 

 Sarunetes hve near the sources of the river llhine, 

 and the Lepontian tribe called the Uberi at the source 

 of the Rhone in the same district of the Alps. There 

 are also other native tribes that have received Latin 

 rights ; for instance, the Octodurenses ^ and their 

 neighbours the Centrones,* the Cottian states-^ and 

 the Turi of Ligurian descent, the Ligurian Vagienni 

 and those called the Mountain Ligurians, and several 

 tribes of Long-haired Ligurians on the borders of the 

 Ligurian Sea. 



It seems not out of place to append here the in- Arch of 

 scription from the triumphal arch ? erected in the '^"^''*''' 

 Alps, which runs as follows : 



To the Emperor Caesar, son ^ of Ihe late lamented 

 Augusius, Supreme Ponlijf, in his fnurteenth year of 

 office as Commander-in-chief and sevenieenth year' 

 of Tribuniiial Authoriitj—erected by the Senate and 

 People of Rome, to commemoraie that under his 

 leadership and auspices all the Alpine races sireiching 

 from ihe Adriatic Sea to ihe Mediterranean rverc 

 broughl under the dominion of ihe Roman people. 

 Alpine races} conquered—ihe Triumpilini, Camunni, 



Chorges; Brigiani, Brian^on; Nemaloni, Miolans; Eguituri, 

 Guiliaumes; Velauni, Bueil. 



