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pliny's NATTJEAL HISTOET. [Book III. 
Extending behind all tlie before-mentioned places are the 
Apennines, the most considerable of all the mountains of 
Italy, the chain of which extends unbroken from the 
Alps^ to the Sicilian sea. On the other side of the Apen- 
nines, towards the Padus^, the richest river of Italy, the 
whole country is adorned with noble towns ; Libarna^, the 
colony of Dertona^, Iria^, Barderate^, Industria', PoUentia^, 
Carrea surnamed Potential, Poro Pulvi or Yalentinum^*^, 
Augusta^^ of the Vagienni, Alba Pompeia^^, Asta^^, and 
Aquae Statiellorum^^. This is the ninth region, according to 
the arrangement of Augustus. The coast of Liguria extends 
211 miles between the rivers Varus and Macra. 
CHAP. 8. THE SEYEKTH EEGION OE ITALY. 
Next to this comes the seventh region, in which is Etruria, 
^ Of which they were considered as a chain, and called the Apennine 
Alps. ^ Now the Po. 
3 According to D'AnviUe, now Cast el Arqua. 
* Now Tortona. It wa,s a city of importance, and there are con- 
siderable ruins still in existence. 
5 The modern Yoghera, upon the river Staffora. 
^ Probably the present Yerrua. 
7 Called by the Ligm'ians Bodincomagus, by the Komans Indnstria- 
Its remains are to be found at Monteu di Po, a few miles below Chevasso, 
on the right bank of the river. 
8 The modern Pollenza, a small town on the river Tenaro near Alba. 
9 Its site has been placed at Chieri near Turin, and at Carrii on the 
Tanaro, a few miles south of Bene, which is perhaps the most probable. 
10 r£^Q modern Yalenza. 
^1 Placed by D'Anville at Yico near Mondovi, and by other writers at 
Carmagnole and Saluzzo : but Durandi has shown that the ruins still to 
be seen near Bene in Piedmont are those of Augusta Yagiennorum. Bene 
is supposed to be a corruption of Bagienna, the name of the town in the 
middle ages. The name of the Yagienni also probably survives in that 
of Yiozenna, an obscure place in that vicinity, 
12 StiU called Alba ; a town near the northern foot of the Apennines. 
It probably had its appellation from Cn. Pompeius Strabo, the father of 
Pompey the Grreat, who conferred many privileges on the Cisalpine Gauls. 
It was the birth -place of the Emperor Helvius Pertinax. 
13 The modem Aste. 
The modem Acqui, so called from its mineral springs. It is again 
mentioned by Pliny in B. XXXI. Numerous remains of the ancient 
town have been discovered, 
*5 Ansart observes that this measurement is nearly correct. 
