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enses\ who take their name from Lepidus, the Solonates^, 
the Saltus Gralliani^, surnamed Aquinates, the Tannetani'', 
the Yeliates^, who were anciently surnamed Eegiates, and 
the Urbanates^. In this district the Boii' have disappeared, 
of whom there were 112 tribes according to Cato ; as also 
the Senones, who captured Kome. 
(16.) The Padus^ descends from the bosom of Mount 
Yesulus, one of the most elevated points of the chain of the 
Alps, in the territories of the Ligurian Vagienni^, and rises 
at its source in a manner that well merits an inspection by 
the curious ; after which it hides itself in a subterranean 
channel until it rises again in the country of the Eorovibi- 
enses. It is inferior in fame to none whatever among the 
rivers, being known to the G-reeks as the Eridanus and famous 
as the scene of the punishment of Phaeton^". At the rising of 
the Dog-star it is swollen by the melted snows ; but, though 
it proves more furious in its course to the adjoining fields 
^ So named after -iEmiliiis Lepidus. The people of Regium Lepidum, 
the site of whose town is occupied by the modern Reggio. 
2 Solonatium is supposed to have had the site of the modem Citta di 
Sole or Torre di Sole. 
3 Nothing certain is known of this people or their town, but it is 
thought by Rezzonico that by this name were meant those who occu- 
pied the wood-clad heights of the Apennines, above Modena and Parma. 
Cicero mentions a Saltus Grallicanus as being a mountain of Campania, 
but that is clearly not the spot meant here. 
^ Their town is thought to have stood on the same site as the modern 
Tenedo. 
^ Their town was perhaps on the same site as the modern Yillac, on 
' the river IS'ura. 
^ The modern city of Ombria probably stands on the site of Urbana, 
their town, of which considerable remains are still to be seen. 
7 These and the Senones were nations of Cisalpine Graul. The Boii 
emigrated originally from Transalpine Graul, by the Penine Alps, or the 
Pass of Grreat St. Bernard. They were completely subdued iDy Scipio 
Nasica in B.C. 191, when he destroyed half of their population, and 
deprived them of nearly half of their lands. They were ultimately driven 
from their settlements, and estabhshed themselves in the modern Bohe- 
mia, which from them takes its name. The Senones, who had taken the 
city of Rome in B.C. 390, were conquered and the greater part of them 
destroyed by the Consul Dolabella in B.C. 283. 
s The Po, which rises in Monte Yiso in Savoy. 
9 Already mentioned in C. 7 of the present Book. 
^0 Ovid m his account of the adventure of Phaeton (Met. B. ii.) states 
that he fell into the river Padus. 
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