254 PLrNT*S KATTTEAL HISTOET. [Book III. 



Cselius states that the length of the Alps from the Upper 

 Sea to the Lower is 1000 miles, a distance which Tima- 

 genes shortens by twenty-two. Cornelius Nepos assigns to 

 them a breadth of 100 miles, and T. Livius of 3000 stadia; 

 but then in different places. For in some locahties they 

 exceed 100 miles ; where they divide Germany, for instance, 

 from Italy ; w^hile in other parts they do not reach seventy, 

 being thus narrowed by the providential dispensation of 

 nature as it were. The breadth of Italy, taken from the 

 river Var at the foot of these mountains, and passing along 

 by the Vada^ Sabatia, the Taurini,' Comum, Brixia, Verona, 

 Vicetia, Opitergium, Aqmleia, Tergeste, Pola, and Arsia, is 

 745 miles. 



CHAP. 24. (20.) — THE ALPS, AND THE ALPUTE NATIONS. 



Many nations dwell among the Alps; but the more 

 remarkable, between Pola and the district of Tergeste, are 

 the Secusse«, the Subocrini, the Catali, the Menocaleni, and 

 near the Carni the people formerly called the Taurisci, but 

 now the Norici. Adjoining to these are the Ehaeti and the 

 Vindelici, who are all divided into a multitude of states. It 

 is supposed that the Ehaeti are the descendants of the Tus- 

 cans, who were expelled by the Gauls and migrated hither 

 under the command of their chief, whose name was Ehaetus. 

 Turning then to the side of the Alps which fronts Italy, we 

 have the Euganean^ nations enjoying Latin rights, and of 

 whom Cato enumerates thirty-four towns. Among these are 

 the Triumpilini, a people who were sold^ with tlieir terri- 

 tory ; and then the Camuni, and several similar tribes, each 

 of them in the jurisdiction of its neighbouring municipal 

 town. The same author also considers the Lepontii"* and 



1 Now Yado in Liguria, the harbour of Sabbata or Savo. Using the 

 modem names, the line thus drawn runs past Yado, Turin, Como, Bres- 

 cia, Verona, Vicenza, Oderzo, Aquileia, Trieste, Pola, and the Arsa. 



2 It is from this people that the group of volcanic hills between Padua 

 and Verona derive their present name of CoUi Euganei or the " Euganean 

 Hills." From the Triumpilini and the Camuni, the present Val Camo- 

 nica and Val Trompia derive their names. 



3 Probably meaning, that for a sum of money they originally acknow- 

 ledged their subjection to the Eoman power. 



4 The Lepontii probably dwelt in the modem Val Ijeventina and the 

 Val d'Osula, near Lago Maggiore ; the Salassi in the Val d'Aosta. 



