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Sea : Rivers Araris nnd Liria. Towns in the other Parts 

 scattered here and there, by reason of Pools lying before 

 them : Agatha, in Times past belonging to the Massilians, 

 and the Region of Volscae Tectosages. Also, where Rhoda 

 of the Rhodians was, whereof Rhodanus took its name, the 

 most fruitful River of all Gallia, running swiftly out of the 

 Alps through the Lake Lemanus, and carrying with it 

 the slow Araris ; and Isara running as fast as itself, 

 together with Druentia ; of which the two small Mouths are 

 called Lybica; of which the one is Hispaniensum, the other 

 Metapinum : there is a third, which is the most Wide 

 and Large, named Massalioticum. Some write that the 

 Town Heraclea likewise stood at the Mouth of Rhodanus. 

 Beyond the Ditch, out of Rhodanus, which was the Work 

 of C. Marius and beareth his Name, there was remarkable 

 Pool ; moreover, the Town Astromela, and the maritime 

 Tract of the Avsetici ; and above, the stony Plains, the Me- 

 morial of the Battles of Hercules. The Region of the 

 Anatilii, and within, of the Desuviates and Caviarae. Again, 

 from the Sea, Tricorium ; and within, the Region of the 

 Tricolli, Vocantii, Segovellauni, and presently of the Allo- 

 broges ; but in the Borders, Massilia of Greek Phocaeans 

 confederate : the Promontory Citharista, Zaopartus, and the 

 Region of the Camatullici. After them the Suelteri ; and 

 above them, Verucines; but in the Coast, Athenopolis of 

 the Massilians ; Forum Julii, a Colony of the ninth Legion, 

 which also is called Parensis and Classica : in it is the River 

 Argenteus, the Region of the Oxubii and Ligaunii ; above 

 whom are the Suetri, Quariates, and Adunicates : but in the 

 Borders, a Latin Town, Antipolis. The Region of the 

 Deciates, the River Varus gushing out of a Mountain of the 

 Alps, called Acema : in the middle Part thereof, the Colonies 

 Arelate of the sixth Legion, Bliterae of the seventh, and 

 Arausia of those belonging to the second . In the Territory 

 of the Caviarae, Valentia and Vienna, of the Allobroges. 

 Latin Towns, Aquas Sextiae of the Saiyi, and Avenio of the 

 Caviarae, Apta Julia of the Vulgienties, Alebecerriorum of 

 the Apollinares, Alba of the Helvi, Augusta of the Tricos- 



