BOOK III. XX. 137-XXI. 139 



Fenostes, Vennonetes, Isarchi, Breuni, Genaunes, 

 Focunates,four tribes of the rindelici, the Cosuanetes, 

 Rucinates, Licates, Catenates, Ambisontes, Rugusci, 

 Suanetes, Calucones, Brixentes, Leponti, Uberi, Nari- 

 tuates, Seduni, Varagri, Salassi, Acitavones, Medulli, 

 Ucenni, Caturiges, Brigiani, Sobionti, Brodionti, 

 Nemaloni, Edenates, Vesubiani, Veamini, Gallitae, 

 Triullati, Ecdini, Vergunni, Eguituri, Nematuri, 

 Oratelli, Nerusi, Velauni, Suetri. 



This list does not include the 15 states of the 

 Cottiani which had not shown hostiHty, nor those that 

 were placed by tlie law of Pompeius under the 

 jurisdiction of the municipal towns. 



This then is Italy, a land sacred to the gods, and 

 these are the races and towns of its peoples. More- 

 over this is that Italy which, in the consulship " 

 of Lucius Aemihus Papus and Gaius Atihus Regulus, 

 on receipt of news of a rising in Gaul, single-handed 

 and without any ahen auxiharies, and moreover at 

 that date without aid from Gaul north of the Po, 

 equipped an army of 80,000 horse and 700,000 foot. 

 She is inferior to no country in abundance of mineral 

 products of every kind ; but mining is prohibited 

 by an old resolution of the Senate forbidding the 

 exploitation of Italy. 



XXI. The race of the Liburni stretches from the ^.e. coa»t 

 Arsa to the river Tityus. Sections of it were the "^ ■^'^'■*<"*«' 

 Mentores, Himani, Encheleae, Buni, and the people 

 called by Calhmachus the Pcucetii, all of whom are 

 now designated collectively by the one name of 

 Illyrians. Few of the peoples are worthy of mention, 

 nor are their names easy to pronounce. To the 

 jurisdiction of Scardona resort the lapudes and the 



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