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the interior of the tenth region are the colonies of Cremona, 

 Brixia in the territory of the Cenomanni^ Ateste^ belonging 

 to the Yeneti, and the towns of Aeelum', Patavium'', Opi- 

 tergium, Belunum", and Yicetia; with Mantua®, the only- 

 city of the Tuscans now left beyond the Padus. Cato in- 

 forms us that the Veneti are descendants of the Trojans' 

 and that the Cenomanni^ dwelt among the Volcse in the vici 

 nity of Massilia. There are also the towns of the Fertini'' 

 the Tridentini'", and the Beruenses, belonging to the Ehaeti 

 Yerona", belonging to the Ehaeti and the Euganei, and Ju 



* Livy seems to imply that Cremona was originally included in the 

 territory of the Insubres. A Roman colony being established there it 

 became a powerful city. It was destroyed by Antonius the general of 

 Vespasian, and again by the Lombard king Agilulfus in a.d. 605. No 

 remains of antiquity, except a few inscriptions, are to be seen in the 

 modem city. 



2 The modem city of Este stands on the site of Atest«. Beyond in- 

 scriptions there are no remains of this Boman colony. 



3 Asolo stands on its site. 



* It was said to have been founded by the Trojan Antenor. Under the 

 Bomans it was the most important city in the north of Italy, and by its 

 commerce and manufactures attained great opulence. It was plvmdered 

 by Attila, and, by Agilulfus, king of the Lombards, was razed to the 

 ground. It was celebrated as being the birth-place of Livy. Modem 

 Padua stands on its site, but has no remains of antiquity. 



* Now called Belluno. Yicetia has been succeeded by the modem 

 Vicenza. 



6 Mantua was not a place of importance, but was famous as being the 

 birth-place of Virgil ; at least, the poet, who was bom at the village of 

 Andes, in its vicinity, regarded it as such. It was said to have had its 

 name from Manto, the daughter of Tiresias. Virgil, in the JEneid, B. x., 

 alludes to its supposed Tuscan origin. 



7 Led by Antenor, as Livy says, B. i. 



8 The Cenomanni, a tribe of the Cisalpine Gauls, seem to have occu- 

 pied the country north of the Padus, between the Insubres on the west 

 and the Veneti on the east. From Polybius and Livy we learn that they 

 had crossed the Alps within historical memory, and had expelled the 

 Etruscans and occupied their territory. They were signalized for their 

 amicable feelings towards the Roman state. 



9 Their town was Fertria or Felti'ia, the modem Feltre. 



^^ The modern city of Trento or Trent occupies the site of Tridentmn, 

 their tovm. It is situate on the Athesis or Adige. It became famous iu 

 the middle ages, and the great ecclesiastical council met here in 1545. 



^* It was a Roman colony under the name of Colonia Augusta, 

 having originally been the capital of the Euganei, and then of the Ceno- 



