232 pllnt's natural HISTOET, [Book III. 



in tliat of the Marsi, the Anxantini^ the Atinates^, the 

 Eucentes^, the Lucenses'', and the Marmvini* ; in that of 

 the Aibenses, the town of Alba on Lake Eucinus ; in that 

 of the ^quiculani, the Cliternini^, and the Carseolani^ ; in 

 that of the Vestini, the Angulani^, the Pinnenses, and the 

 Peltuinates, adjoining to whom are the Aufinates^ Cismon- 

 tani; in that of the Samnites, who have been called 

 Sabelli^", and whom the Greeks have called Saunitae, the 

 colony of old Bovianum", and that of the Undecumani, 



circumstance mentioned by Ovid in his Tristia, B. iv. ch. 1. 1. 4/ It ia 

 now called Sulmona. 



* The people of Anxanum or Ania, on the Sangro, now known as the 

 city of Lanciano ; in the part of which, known as Lanciano Vecchio, 

 remains of the ancient town are to be seen. 



^ The people probably of Atina in Samnium, which still retains the 

 same name. 



3 They probably took their name from the Lake Fucinus, the modem 

 Lago Fucino, or Lago di Celano. 



* They dwelt in a town on the verge of Lake Fucinus, known as Lucus. 

 5 The ruins of Marruvium may stiU be seen at Muria, on the eastern 



side of Lake Fucinus. 



^ It has been suggested, from the discovery of a sepulchral inscription 

 there, that Capradosso, about nine miles from Rieti in the upper valley of 

 the Salto, is the site of ancient Chtemia. The small village of Alba retains 

 the name and site of the former city of Alba Fucensis, of which there 

 are considerable remains. 



7 The modem town of Carsoli is situate three miles from the site of 

 ancient CarseoU, the remains of which are still visible at Civita near the 

 Ostoria del CavaUere. Ovid tells us that its climate was cold and bleak, 

 and that it would not grow oHves, though fruitful in com. He also gives 

 some other curious particulars of the place. — Fasti, B. iv. 1. 683 et seq. 



^ The modem Civita Sant Angelo retains nearly its ancient name as 

 that of its patron saint. It is situate on a hill, four miles from the 

 Adriatic, and south of the river Matrinus, wliich separated the Vestini 

 from the territories of Adria and Picenum. 



3 The village of Ofena, twelve miles north of Popoli, is supposed to 

 retain the site of ancient Aufina. Numerous antiquities have been foimd 

 here. 



^^ Cato in his ' Origines ' stated that they were so called from the fact 

 of their being descended from the Sabines. 



^^ The site of the town of Bovianum is occupied by the modem city of 

 Bojano ; the remains of the walls are visible. Mommsen however con- 

 siders Bojano to be the site of only Bovianum Undecumanorum, or " of 

 the Eleventh Legion," and considers that the site of the ancient Sam- 

 nite city of Bovianum Vetus is the place called Piettrabondante, near 

 Agnone, twenty miles to the north, where there appear to be the remains 

 of an ancient city. 



