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Italy ;"* by Pliny, 2 that " they were deemed to be the most an- 

 cient nation of Italy ;" by Diomysius of Halicarnassus, 3 that the 

 " Ombrici were a nation of peculiar greatness and antiquity." 



Herodotus* states, that the Lydian Tyrsenians (according 

 to him, the germ of the Tuscan race), settled among the people 

 called by the Greeks QpfigiTtoi, and supposed by some of their 

 writers to have derived their name from their having survived 

 the general deluge [op@go{\. We also learn from him that their 

 country was of great and indefinite extent. In the words of 

 Niebuhr, " It stretched to the foot of the Alps, for the rivers 

 Karpis and Alpis, one of which is certainly represented by the 

 Inn, 5 flowed from the country above the Umbrici." According 

 to Scylax, 6 Umbria included Picenum, as he places Ancona 

 within its limits. 



From Pliny 7 we further learn that the Tuscans took no less 

 than three hundred towns from the Umbri, in other words, " that 

 the whole Tuscan territory had once been Umbrian." From 

 these authorities it is evident that the Umbri, at a remote pe- 

 riod, occupied the greatest portion of Northern Italy. The Li- 



over it, to represent the sound ee. The soft sound of the d I shall leave unmarked, 

 as it was in the older writers. 



1 " Antiquissimus Italia? populus. 11 Lib. i. cap. 17. 



2 " Gens antiquissima Italia?.'" Lib. iii. cap. xiv. 



A hi o/jy^iKoi. i&vog iv roig vavu (t,%yo. xa/ a^aiov. Lib. i. 



o,a/3ga yiwg yaXalcav xa/ ffaXKiuv. Jzetzes, Lye. cap. 199. 

 To these may be added the testimony of the Historical Fragments ascribed to 

 Varro : "Ex his venisse Janum ceu Ogri et Gallis progenitoribus Umbrorum.'" Ed. 

 Lugd. 15(i0. 



4 Book i. cap. 94. 



3 Herod. Lib. iv. cap. 49- 



Ex di rr\g xcclw7rigi)z XP£ a $ °t J, @g l x<>>v Kagcr/s <irola/Aog xa/ aXXog AXvig volafiog, irgps ftomv 

 iiovlig avifLov, xa/ ouloi ixdidovgi ig idlgcv. 



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7 Lib. 3. cap. 14. " Tercentum eorum oppida Tusci debellasse refer untur." 



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