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enses\ who take their name from Lepidus, the Solonates'^, 

 the Saltus Galliani^, surnamed Aquinates, the Tannetani'', 

 the Veliates^, who were anciently surnamed Kegiates, and 

 the Urbanates''. In this district the Boii^ have disappeared, 

 of whom there were 112 tribes according to Cato ; as also 

 the Senones, who captured Ilome. 



(16.) Tiie Padus** descends from the bosom of Mount 

 Vesiilus, one of the most elevated points of the chain of the 

 Alps, in the territories of the Ligurian Vagienni^, and rises 

 at its source in a manner that well merits an inspection by 

 the curious ; after which it hides itself in a subterranean 

 channel until it rises again in the country of the Forov-ibi- 

 enses. It is inferior in fame to none whatever among the 

 rivers, being known to the Greeks as the Eridanus and famous 

 as the scene of the punishment of Phaeton^". At tlie rising of 

 the Dog-star it is swollen by the melted snows ; but, though 

 it proves more furious in its course to the adjoining fields 



^ So named after ^miliiis Lepidus. The people of Regimn Lepidum, 

 the site of whose town is occupied by the modem Rt^gio. 



2 Solonatium is supposed to have had the site of the modem Citta di 

 Sole or Torre di Sole. 



* Nothing certain is known of this people or their town, but it is 

 thought by R<^zzonico that by this name were meant those who occu- 

 pied the wood-clad heights of the Apennines, above Modena and Parma. 

 Cicero mentions a Saltus GkJhcanus as being a mountain of Campania, 

 but that is clearly not the spot meant here. 



* Their town is thought to have stood on the same site as the modam 

 Tenedo. 



* Their town waa perhaps on the same site as the modem Yillac, on 

 the river Nura. 



^ The modem city of Ombria probably stands on the site of Urbana, 

 their to'mi, of which considerable remains are still to be seen. 



' These and the Senones were nations of Cisalpine Gb,ul. The Boii 

 emigrated originally from Transalpine Gaul, by the Penine Alps, or the 

 Pass of Great St. Bemard. They were completely subdued by Scipio 

 Nasica in B.C. 191, when he destroyed half of their population, and 

 deprived them of nearly half of their lands. They were idtimately driven 

 from their settlements, and estabhshed themselves in the modem Bohe- 

 mia, which from them takes its name. The Senones, who had taken the 

 city of Rome in B.C. 390, were conquered and the greater part of them 

 destroyed by the Consul Dolabella in B.C. 283. 



^ The Po, which rises in Monte Yiso in Savoy. 



* Aheady mentioned in C. 7 of the present Book. 



1° Ovid in his accoimt of the adventure of Phaeton (Met. B. ii.) states 

 that he fell into the river Padus. 



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