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1 Aven-tia, 



2 Savo ; to which should be added the 3 Ufens, and 

 the Avens, a tributary of the Himella. 



But in the names of places we find 



Antemnae and Antennas, 



Interamna repeatedly, and also a river Scultenna ; 

 whence it is credible, that the word, in its contracted form of 

 An or Ann, or En, with the termination Us, is often to be found, 

 as, 



4 Vom-an-us, 



5 Amas-en-us, 



6 Fibr-en-us, etc. etc. 



The full meaning of this latter termination may be proved 

 from the river Gari-en-us in Norfolk, now called the Yare, ac- 

 cording to the common English custom of changing the older g 

 into y. 



To these should undoubtedly be added the celebrated 



7 Clit-umn-us, 



formed on the same principle as the Gallic Garumna (Garw 

 Avon, Rough River). To these generic names of rivers may be 



1 Now LAvenza, near Luna. 



2 Now Savone, in Campania, after the manner of the Gallic Savona now Saone ; 

 originally it was Avon Ara, the Slow River, (Vide ^Cassar's description of it, Lib. i. 

 cap. 12.) in time the specific name perished, the generic remained. 



3 Now Aufente, in Latium. 



4 Now the Vomano in Picenum. 



5 In the Pomptine Marshes. 



6 A tributary of the Liris ; evidently the Beaver (Fiber) Stream. 



7 Still called Clitunno. That the Clit is a separable prefix is apparent from its 

 being joined with ernum also, a very common topographical affix, as Clit-ernum. 

 The word is apparently synonymous with the Scotish and Welsh Clyde, which 

 means in Cumrian " warm" cliid, a term equally applicable to the Italian and 

 British rivers. 



• Flumcn est Arar, quod per fines iEduorum et Sequanorum in Rhodanum influit incredibili 

 lenitale, ita ut oculis in utram partem fluat judicari non possit.— Ara means " slow." 



