25G plikt's KATUEAL HISTOBT. [Book III. 



It may not be inappropriate in this place to subjoin the 

 inscription now to be seen upon the trophy^ erected on the 

 Alps, which is to the following effect : — " To the Empeeob 

 C^sAR — The son^ of Cjesar now deified, Augustus, 



PONTIFEX MaXIMUS, AND EMPEBOB FOUBTEEN TEABS, IN 

 THE SEYENTEENTH^ TEAB OF HIS HOLDING THE TRIBUNI- 

 TIAL AUTHOBITY, THE SeNATE AND THE EOMAN PEOPLE, IN 

 BEMEMBEANCE THAT UNDEB HIS COMMAND AND AUSPICES 



ALL THE Alpine nations which extended feom the 

 UPPEE sea to the loweb webe beduced to subjection 



BY THE EoMAN PEOPLE — ThE AlPINE NATIONS SO SUB- 

 DUED WEBE : THE TeIUMPILINI, THE CaMUNI, THE Ve- 

 NOSTES"*, THE VeNNONENSES, THE ISAECI, THE BbEUNI, 

 THE GrENAUNES^ THE FOCUNATES, FOUB NATIONS OP THE 

 ViNDELICI, THE CONSUANETEg, THE HUCINATES, THE 

 LlCATES^ THE CATENATES, THE AmBISONTES, THE Ru- 

 GUSCI, THE SUANETES^ THE CaLUCONES, THE BeIX- 

 ENTES, THE LePONTII, THE UbEEI, THE NaNTUATES, THE 

 SeDUNI, the VaBAGBI, THE SaLASSI, THE AciTAVONES, 



^ The trophy or triumphal arch which bore this inscription is that 

 which was still to be seen at Torbia near Nicsea in Illyria, in the time of 

 Gruter, who has given that portion of the inscription which remained 

 unobhterated, down to " gentes Alpinse," " the Alpine nations." Har- 

 douin speaks of another triumphal arch in honour of Augustus at Segusio 

 or Susa in Piedmont, which appears to have commenced in a somewhat 

 similar manner, but only the first twelve words were remaining in 1671. 



2 Adopted son of his great uncle Juhus Caesar. 



3 Most of the MSS. omit the figures XVII here, but it is evidently 

 an accident ; if indeed they were omitted in the original. 



^ They are supposed to have occupied the Yal Venosco, at the sources 

 of the Adige. The Isarci dwelt in the Val de Sarra or Sarcha, near Val 

 Camonica ; and the Breuni ia the Val Brounia or Bregna, at the source 

 Df theTessino, 



^ D'Anville thinks that they inhabited the Val d'Agno, near Trento, 

 between Lake Como and the Adige. He also detects the name of the 

 Focimates in the village of Vogogna. 



^ They inhabited the banks of the river Lech, their town being, ac- 

 cording to Strabo, Damasia, afterwards Augusta Vindehcorum, now 

 Augsburg. 



7 Probably the Sarunetes, already mentioned. The Brixentes inha- 

 bited the modem Brixen in the Tyrol. The Lepontii have been pre- 

 Tiously mentioned. The Seduni occupied the present Sion, the capital 

 of the Valais. The Salassi have been already mentioned. According to 

 Bouche, the MeduUi occupied the modem Maurienne ia Savoy. The 

 Varagri dwelt ia Le Chabkis. 



