234 Flint's natubal histoet. [Book III. 



and the Alfatemi, tribes of tlie iEquiculi, have disappeared. 

 Prom Gellianus we learu that Archippe^ a town of the 

 Marsi, built by Marsyas, a chieftain of the Lydians, has 

 been swallowed up by Lake Fucinus. and Valerianus informs 

 us that the town of the Viticini in Picenum was destroyed 

 by the Bomans. The Sabini (called, according to some 

 writers, from their attention to religious^ observances and 

 the worship of the gods, Sevini) dwell on the dew-clad hills 

 in the vicinity of the Lakes of the Velinus^. The Nar, with 

 its sulphureous waters, exhausts these lakes, and, descending 

 from Mount Fiscellus'*, imites with them near the groves of 

 Vacuna* and E^ate, and then directs its course towards the 

 Tiber, into which it discharges itself. Again, in another 

 direction, the Anio^, taking its rise in the mountain of the 

 Trebani, carries into the Tiber the waters of three lakes re- 

 markable for their picturesque beauty, and to which Subla- 



while Cominium Ceritum, probably another place, is spoken of by Livy 

 in his account of the second Punic War. The latter, it is suggested, was 

 about sixteen miles north-west of Beneventura, and on the site of the 

 modem Cerreto. The Comini here mentioned by Pliny, it is thought, 

 dwelt in neither of the above places. The sites of the towns of many of 

 the peoples here mentioned are also equally unknown. 



^ Solinus, B. ii., also states, that this place was founded by Marsyas, 

 king of the Lydians. Hardouin mentions that in his time the remains of 

 this town were said to be seen on the verge of the lake near Transaco. 



2 From the Greek ve(3e<T9ai "to worship." 



3 The river VeHnus, now Velino, rising in the Apennines, in the vici- 

 nity of Reate, overflowed its banks and formed several small lakes, the 

 largest of wliich was called Lake Velinus, now Pie di Lugo or Lago, while 

 a smaller one was caHed Lacus Reatinus, now Lago di Santa Susanna. 

 In order to carry off these waters, a channel was cut through the rocks 

 by Curius Dentatus, the conqueror of the Sabines, by means of which 

 the waters of the Velinus were carried tlxrough a narrow gorge to a spot 

 where they fall from a height of several hundred feet into the river 

 Nar. This fall is now known as the Fall of Temi or the Cascade Delle 

 Marmore. 



■* StiU called Monte Fiscello, near the town of Civita Reale. Virgil 

 calls the Nar (now the Nera), " Sulphured Nar albus aqua," " The 

 white Nar with its sulphureous waters." — J^neid, vii. 517. 



* A Sabine divinity said to have been identical with Victory, The 

 Romans however made her the goddess of leisure and repose, and repre- 

 sented her as being worsiiiped by the husbandmen at harvest home, 

 when they were " vacui," or at leisure. She is mentioned by Ovid in the 

 Fasti, B. vi. 1. 307. The grove here alluded to was one of her sanctuaries. 



fi The modern Teverone, which rises near Tervi or Trevi. 



