BOOK IV. XVII. 105-XV111. 107 



XVII. The whole of Gaul included under the Gaul. 

 general name of Long-liaired divides into three races 

 of people, which are chiefly separated by the rivers: 

 from the Scheldt to the Seine is Belgic Gaul, from 

 the Seine to the Garonne Celtic Gaul, also called 

 Lyonese, and from the Garonne to the projection 

 of the Pyrenees Aquitanian Gaul, previously called 

 Armorica. Agrippa reckoned the entire length of 

 the coast at 1750 miles, and the dimensions of thc 

 Gauls between the Rhine and the Pyrenees and thc 

 ocean and the mountains of the Cevennes and Jura, 

 wliich exclude the Narbonne division of Gaul, as — 

 length 420 miles, brcadth 318 miles. 



The part beginning at the Scheldt is inhabited by Bdgium am 

 the Texuandri, who have several names, and then the tcrn France. 

 Menapi, the Morini, the Oromarsaci adjacent to the 

 canton called Chersiacus, the Bretons, the Ambiani, 

 the Bellovaci and the Bassi ; and more in the interior 

 the Catoslugi, Atrebalcs, Nervi (a free people), 

 Veromandui,Suaeuconi,Suessiones (free), Ulmanectes 

 (free), Tungri, Sunici, Frisiavones, Baetasi, Leuci 

 (free), Treveri (fonnerly free), Lingones (federated), 

 llemi (federated), Mediomatrici, Sequani, Raurici, 

 Helveti ; and the Equestrian and Rauric colonies. 

 The races of Germany living on the banks of the 

 Rhine in the same province are the Nemetes, 

 Triboci and Vangiones, and among the Ubii the 

 Colony of Agrippina," the Guberni, the Batavi and 

 the people whom we have already mentioncd as § 101. 

 dwelling on the islands of the Rhine. 



XVni. To Lyonese Gaul belong the Ijexovu, Centrai and 

 Veliocasses, Galeti, Veneti, Abrincatui, Ossismi, the lyancet 

 famous river Loire, and also the still more remarknble 

 peninsula * that runs out into the ocean from the 



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