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jans Cato informs us, and also, that the Cenomanni, near to 

 Massilia, dwell among the Volsci. Fertini, Tridentini, and 

 Bernenses, are Towns of Rhetia. Verona is of the Rheti and 

 Euganei; Julienses of the Garni. Then follow these, whom 

 we need to use no Strictness in naming ; Alutruenses, Asse- 

 riates, Flamonienses, Vannienses, and others surnamed 

 Gulici : Foro Julienses, surnamed Transpadani : Foretani, 

 Venidates, Querqueni, Taurisani, Togienses, Varvani. In 

 this Tract there have perished in the Borders, Itamine, Pel- 

 laon, Palsicium. Of the Veneti, Atina and Caelina : of the 

 Garni, Segeste and Ocra : and of the Taurissi, Noreia. Also 

 from Aquileia twelve Miles, there was a Town destroyed by 

 M. Claudius Marcellus, in spite of the Senate, as L. Piso 

 hath recorded. In this Region there are also ten remarkable 

 Lakes and Rivers, either issuing forth of them as their Off- 

 spring, or else maintained by them, if they send them out 

 again, when they have received them : as Larius doth Addua, 

 Verbanus Ticinus, Benacus Mincius, Sebinus Ossius, Eupi- 

 lius Lamber, all seated in the Padus. The Alps reach in 

 Length ten Miles from the upper Sea to the lower, as Ccdius 

 saith : Timogenes, two-and-twenty : but Cornelius Nepos, in 

 Breadth 100 Miles : T. Livius saith, 3000 Stadia. But both 

 of them take Measure in different Places ; for sometimes they 

 exceed 100 Miles, where they separate Germany from Italy : 

 and in other Parts they are so narrow, that they make not 

 full out three score and ten Miles ; as if by the Provi- 

 dence of Nature. The Breadth of Italy, from Varus under 

 the Foot of them through the Shallows of Sabatia, the Tau- 

 rini, Comus, Brixia, Verona, Vicetia, Opitergium, Aquileia, 

 Tergeste", Pola, and Aristia, maketh 702 Miles. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 Of the Alps and Alpine Nations. 



MANY Nations inhabit the Alps, but those of special 

 Name, from Pola to the Tract of Tergestis, are these : the 

 Secusses, Subocrini, Catili, Menocaleni : and near to the 

 Garni, those who in Times past were called Taurisci, but 



