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forms the extensive port known aa that of Vatrenus, whei'e 

 Claudius Caesar*, on his triumph over the Britons, entered 

 the Adriatic in a vessel that deserved rather the name of a 

 vast palace than a ship. This mouth, which was formerly 

 called by some the Eridanian, has been by others styled the 

 Spinetic mouth, from the city of Spina, a very powerful place 

 which formerly stood in the vicinity, if we may form a con- 

 clusion from the amount of its treasure deposited at Delphi ; 

 it was founded by Diomedes. At this spot the river Vatre- 

 nus^, which flows from the territory of Forum Cornell, swells 

 the waters of the Padus. 



The next mouth to this is that of Caprasia^ then that 

 of Sagis, and tlieu Volane, formerly called Olane; all of 

 "which are situate upon the Flavian Canal^, which the Tus- 

 cans formerly made from Sagis, thus drawing the impe- 

 tuous stream of the river across into the marshes of the 

 Atriani, which they call the Seven Seas ; and upon which is 

 the noble port of Atria'*, a city of the Tuscans, from which 

 place the sea was formerly called the Atriatic, thougli now 

 the Adriatic. 



We next come to the overflowing mouths of Carbo- 

 naria, and the Fosses of Philistina*, by some called Tarta- 



* It was on this occasion that, after a stay of only a few days in Britain, 

 he quitted the island, returned to Eome, and celebrated a splendid tri- 

 umph. Tliis outlet of the Po has now the name of Po di Primero. 



2 Now the Santemo, noted for the sluggishness of its waters. 



3 The Ostium Caprasiae is now called the Porto Interito di Bell' Ochio, 

 the Ostium Sagis the Porto di Magnavacca ; Volane, or Yolana, is the 

 south mam branch of the river. The Ostia Carbonaria, mentioned below, 

 was the north main branch, subdivided into several small branches ; and 

 the Fossa) or Fossiones Pliilistinae connected the river, by means of tho 

 Tartarus, with the Athe?is. 



* The reading is doubtful here, and even this, which is perhaps the best, 

 appears to be corrupt ; for it is difficult to conceive how aU the mouths 

 previously mentioned could have been upon one canal, and besides it 

 would seem that Olane was one of the natural mouths of the river. 



* More generally Adria, from which, as Pliny says, the Adriatic takes 

 its name. Either a Greek, or, what is more probable, as Phny states, an 

 Etruscan colony, it became the principal emporium of trade with the 

 Adriatic, in consequence of wliich it was surroimded with canals and 

 other works to facilitate its communications with other rivers. It is 

 stiU called Adria, and in its vicinity to the south, considerable remains 

 of the ancient city are stiU. to be seen. 



* So called from the Philistsei, said to have been the ancient inhabit- 



