The third Booke of 



The Pitulatics with the addition of Piriisrtes,as alfo others furnamedMergentines, and the Pe- Q 

 kftines, ScntinatcSjSarfinates jSpoletineSjSuarraneSj Seftinates^ and SuiliaceSjSadinates/f ic- 

 biateSjTuficaneSjTifernatesjnanied withallTribertineSjas alfo other of them diftinguifhed by 

 the nameofMetaurenfes.Thc Vefionicatesjthe Vrbinatesjas well they that bee fnrnamed Mc- 

 taurcnfes^as others Hortenfesjthe Vettionenfes5Vindenatcs and Viventanes.In this trad there 

 are extindthe Fehgnates_,and they who poflefled Ciufioliim above Interainna : alfo the Sarra- 

 iiateSjwith the townes Acerra^^called befides VafriaSjand TurceoUun^the fame that Vetriolum. 

 Semblably the Solinates, SiiriateSjFaUienates, Apiennates. There are gone Hkcwile and cleane 

 loft the Aricnateswith CrinovohiiUjalfothe Vfidicanes andPlangenfes^thePifinatesand Cx- 

 leftines. As for Amera above writtenjC^^^? hath left in recordj That it was built ^ 54 y ceres before 

 thcwarreagainftP^';/^/^. * H 



Chap. xv. 



^ 7 he eight regrn^ 



THe eight regionis bounded with AriminiimjPaduSjand ApennineJn the borders thereof 

 is the river Ctuftuininum^thc colonic Ariminumjwith the rivers Ariniiniim and Apriifa , 

 Then the river Rubico,the utmoft limit foraetime of Italic. After it, Sapis the river jViiis 

 and /Vncmo_, Ravenna a towneof the Sabines with the river Bedefesj 102 miles from Ancona. 

 And notfarrefrom the Vmbriansrea,Butrium.VVithin.fortharethefeColonicSjBononie ufu- 

 ally called Felfina3when it was the head cittie of Hetruria, Brixillum jMutinajParmajPiacentia. I 

 'TovTjneSjCasrena5Claterna3Forum-Clodij3Livij andPopilij.pcrtaining to the Trucntines ralfo 

 [Forumjthe CornelijjLaccinijFaventinijFidcntinijOtefinijPadinatesjKegienfes a Lepido, So- 

 Ionates:alfo the forrefts Galliani furnamed AquinateSjTanetanijVeiiatesfurnamed Vcderij 

 Regiates and Vmbranatesjnthis trad the Boij are confumedj who had 1 1 z tribes or kinredsj as 

 Cnio maketh reportXikev^ife the Senones^they that tooke Rome. 



Chap. XVI. 

 ^ of the river Padm, 



PAdusiflliingoiitof thebofomeofthe mountaineVefulus^bearing up his head aloft into K 

 a mightic heigth, runneth from a marvailons fpring worth the feeing , in the marches of 

 the Ligiuian Vagienni;and hiding it felfe within a narrow trench, as it were, under the 

 ground, and rifing up againe in theterritorie of theForovibians , is inferiour to no other rivers 

 for excelicncie. Of the GreekeSjCallcd it was Eridanus, and is much fpoken of and well knownc, 

 forthcpunillimentof Phaeton, li fwclleth about the rifing of the Dog ftarre, by reafon that 

 the fiiow is then thawed : more unruly and rough unto the fields therGby,than to the veflels upon 

 it : howbeit, nothing ftealcth it and carryeth away as his owne^ but when hee hath left the fields, 

 his bountie is more feene by their plenty and fruitfulneffe :from his head, hee holdeth on his 

 courfe^? o miles wanting twaine, above three hundred. In which paflage of his., he taketh in un- 

 to him, not oncly the navigable rivers of the Apennine and the Alpes, but huge maine lakes al . 

 fothatdifchargethemfelves into him ;fo as in all he carryeth with him into the Adriaticke fca, 

 to the number of 30 rivers.The chiefe and moft notorious of all them, are thefe, fent out of the 

 fide of Apennine jTanarus,Trebia,Placentine5Tarus,Nicia, Gabeiius, Scuitenna, Rhenus. 

 But running out of the Alpesj SturaJMorgus, Duri^e twame, SefTues, Ticinus, Lambrus, Ad- 

 duapiius^and Mincius.And there is not a river againe^that in fo iitde a way.growerh to a grea- 

 ter ftreame: for over- charged it is and troubled with the quantitie of water^and therefore wor- 

 kethitfelfcadeepechannelljheavieand hurtfull to the earth under it. although it be derived 

 and drawne into other rivers and goles, betweene Ravenna and Ativum, for i 20 miles : yet be- 

 caufe he belcheth and cafteth them out fromhim in fo great abundance,he is faid to make fcven 

 leas. Drawne he is to Ravenna by a narrow channell, where he is called Badufajand in times paf^ M 

 Meifanicus.Butthe next mouth that he maketh, carryeth the bigneffe of an haven, which is na^ 

 med Vatreni: at which Ckudim Csfir as hee came triumphant out of Britaine., cntred into A- 

 dria^ with that luige veffell^more like a mighty great houle than a lliip. This mouth of it was be- 

 fore time called Eridanum : of others^ Spincticiym of the cicle Spinas neeie-^byjbuik by Dhnudcs 



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