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plikt's FATTJRAL HISTOET. [Book III. 
and tlie Alfaterni, tribes of the ^quiculi, liave disappeared. 
Prom Gellianus we learn tliat Archippe\ a town of the 
Marsi, bnilt by Marsyas, a chieftain of the Lydians, has 
been swallowed up by Lake FucinuS; and Yalerianus informs 
US that the town of the Yiticini in Picenum was destroyed 
by the Pomans. The Sabini (called, according to some 
writers, from their attention to religious^ observances and 
the worship of the gods, Sevini) dwell on the dew-clad hills 
in the vicinity of the Lakes of the Yelinus^. The Nar, with 
its sulphureous waters, exhausts these lakes, and, descending 
from Mount Fiscellus^, unites with them near the groves of 
Vacuna^ and Peate, and then directs its course towards the 
Tiber, into which it discharges itself. Again, in another 
direction, the Anio^, taking its rise in the mountain of the 
Trebani, carries into the Tiber the waters of three lakes re- 
markable for their picturesque beauty, and to which Subla- 
while Cominium Ceritum, probably another place, is spoken of by Livy 
in his account of the second Punic War. The latter, it is suggested, was 
about sixteen miles north-west of Beneventum, and on the site of the 
modern Cerreto. The Comini here mentioned by Phny, it is thought, 
dwelt in neither of the above places. The sites of the towns of many of 
the peoples here mentioned are also equally unknown. 
Solinus, B.ii., also states, that this place was founded by Marsyas, 
king of the Lydians. Ilardouin mentions that in his time the remains of 
this town were said to be seen on the verge of the lake near Transaco. 
2 From the Grreek TepeaOai "to worship." 
3 Th& river YeHnus, now YeUno, rising in the Apennines, in the vici- 
nity of Keate, overflowed its banks and formed several small lakes, the 
lai'gest of which was called Lake Yelinus, now Pie di Lugo or Lago, while 
a smaller one w^as called Lacus E/catinus, now Lago di Santa Susanna. 
In order to carry off these waters, a channel was cut through the rocks 
by Curius Dentatus, the conqueror of the Sabines, by means of which 
the waters of the Yehnus were carried through a narrow gorge to a spot 
where they fall from a height of several hundred feet into the river 
Nar. This fall is now known as the Fall of Terni or the Cascade Delle 
Marmore. 
^ Still called Monte Fiscello, near the town of Civita E-eale. Yirgil 
calls the Nar (now the Nera), " Sulphurea Nar albus aqua," " The 
white Nar with its sulphureous waters." — ^Eneid, vii. 517. 
* A Sabine divinity said to have been identical with Yictory. The 
Romans however made her the goddess of leisure and repose, and repre- 
sented her as being worsiiiped by the husbandmen at harvest home, 
when they were " vacui," or at leisure. She is mentioned by Ovid in the 
Fasti, B. vi. 1. 307. The grove here alluded to was one of her sanctuaries.^ 
^ The modern Teverone, which rises near Tervi or Trevi. I 
