Chap. 32.] ACCOTTNT OF COTrNTEIES, ETC. 855 



formerly free, and the Lingones^ a federal state, the federal 

 Eemi^, the Mediomatrici', the Sequani^, the Eaurici*, and 

 the Helvetii". The Eoman colonies are Equestris' and 

 Rauriaca*. The nations of Germany which dwell in this 

 province, near the sources of the Rhine, are the Nemetes', 

 the Triboci^^ and the Vangiones" ; nearer again *^, the Ubii", 

 the Colony'* of Agrippina, the Cugerni", the Batavi'*, and 

 the peoples whom we have already mentioned afi dwelling 

 on the islands of the Ehine. 



CHAP. 32. (18.) — GALLIA LUGDUITENSIS. 



That part of Gaul which is known as Lugdunensis^^ con- 



1 Their chief town was on the site of Langres, in the department of 

 the Haute Mame. 



' They gave name to the city of Rlieims in the department of the Mame. 



* Their chief town stood on the site of the modem Metz, in the 

 department of the Moselle. 



* Besanfon stands on the site of their chief town, in the department 

 of the Doubs, extending as far as B&le. 



* The inhabitants of the district called the Haut Bhin or Higher Ehine. 

 ^ The inhabitants of the west of Switzerland. 



7 Or the" Equestrian Colony," probably founded by the Roman Equites. 

 It is not known where this colony was situate, but it is suggested by 

 Cluver and Monetus that it may have been on the lake of GenevSj in the 

 vicinity of the modem town of Nyon. 



8 Littre, in a note, remarks that Rauriaca is a barbarism, and that the 

 reading properly is " Raurica." 



^ Spire was their chief city, in the province of the Rhine. 



'" They are supposed to have occupied Strasbourg, and the greater part 

 of the department of the Lower Rhine. 



^^ They dwelt in the modem Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt ; Worms 

 was their chief city. ^ That is, nearer the mouths of the Rhine. 



^3 They originally dwelt on the right bank of the Rhine, but were 

 transported across the river by Agrippa in B.C. 37, at their own request, 

 from a wish to escape the attacks of the Suevi. 



^* Now kno^vn as the city of Cologne. It took its name from Agrippina, 

 the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero, who was bom there, and who, 

 as Tacitus says, to show off her power to the allied nations, planted a colony 

 of veteran soldiers in her native city, and gave to it her own name. 



^5 Their district was in the modem circle of Cloves, in the province of 

 Juliers-Berg-Cleves. 



IS Dwelling in the Insula Batavorum, mentioned in C. 29 of the pre- 

 sent Book. 



^7 He first speaks of the nations on the coast, and then of those more 

 in the interior. 



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