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the Salassi to be of Tauriscan origin, but most other 

 writers, giving a Greek* interpretation to their name, con- 

 sider the Lepontii to have been those of the followers of 

 Hercules who were left behind in consequence of their limbs 

 being frozen by the snow of the Alps. They are also of 

 opinion that the inhabitants of the Grecian Alps are de- 

 scended from a portion of the Greeks of his army, and that 

 the Euganeans, being sprung from an origin so illustrious, 

 thence took their name-. The head of these are the Stoeni*. 

 The Yennonenses* and the Sarunetes^, peoples of the 

 Eheeti, dwell about the sources of the river Enenus, while 

 the tribe of the Lepontii, known as the Uberi, dwell in the 

 vicinity of the sources of the Ehodanus, in the same district 

 of the Alps. There are also other native tribes here, 

 who have received Latin rights, such as the Octodurenses*, 

 and their neighbours the Centrones^, the Cottian* states, 

 the Ligurian V agienni, descended from the Caturiges', as 

 also those called Montani''' ; besides numerous nations of the 

 Capillati", on the confines of the Ligurian Sea. 



^ Making it to come from the Greek verb XetTrw, " to leave behind." 



* As though being evyeveioi or eyyfvels, " of honourable descent," or 

 " parentage." 



3 Strabo mentions the Stoni or Stceni among the minor Alpine tribes. 

 Mannert thinks that they dwelt near the sources of the river Chiese, 

 about the site of the modem village of Storo. 



"• It has been suggested that fi^m them the modem Valtelline takes 

 its name. 



^ Hardonin suggests that the Suanetes, who are again mentioned, 

 are the people here meant. 



^ They are supposed to have dwelt in the present canton of Martignac 

 in the Valais, and the Vaudois. 



7 They dwelt in the Tarantaise, in the duchy of Savoy. The village 

 called Centron still retains their name. 



^ The states subject to Cottius, an Alpine chief, who having gained the 

 favour of Augustus, was left by him in possession of this portion of the 

 Alps, viith. the title of Praefect. These states, in the vicinity of the mo- 

 dem Mount Cenis, seem to have extended from Ebrodunimi or Embnm 

 in Gnul, to Segusio, the modem Susa, in Italy, including the Pass of 

 Mont Genevre. The territory of Cottius was united by Nero to the 

 Koman empire, as a separate province called the " Alpes Cottise." 



^ They dwelt in thevicinity of EbrodunumorEmbrimalready mentioned. 



10 Ti^p « moimtaineers." Some editions read here " Appuani," so called 

 from the town of Appua, now Pontremoh. 



" The Vagienni, and the Capillati Ligures, or " Long-haired Ligu- 

 rians," have been previously mentioned in Chap. 7. 



