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Segusio ; and, at the foot of tlie Alps, the colony of Augusta 
Taurinorum\ at which place the Padus becomes navigable, 
and which was founded by the ancient race of the Ligurians, 
and of Augusta Prsetoria^ of the Salassi, near the two passes 
of the Alps, the Grrecian^ and the Penine (by the latter it is 
said that the Carthaginians passed into Italy, by the G-recian, 
Hercules) — the town of Eporedia^ the foundation of which 
by the Eoman people was enjoined by the Sibylline books ; 
the Gauls call tamers of horses by the name of '^Epore- 
dise" — Yercellss^, the town of the Libici, derived its origin 
from the Salluvii, and Novaria^, founded by the Vertacoma- 
cori, is at the present day a district of the Vocontii, and not, 
as Cato supposes, of the Ligurians ; of whom two nations, 
called the Lsevi and the Marici, founded Ticinumx-^, not far 
from ,the Padus, as the Boii, descended from the Transalpine 
nations, have founded Laus Pompeia^ and the Insubres Me- 
diolanum^. 
modern Saluzzo, on the north bank of the Po. Segusio occupied the 
site of the modern Susa. 
^ Augusta of the Taurini. The present city of Turin stands on its 
site. It was made a Eoman colony by Augustus. With the exception 
of some inscriptions, Turin retains no yestiges of antiquity. 
2 The present city of Aosta occupies its site. This was also a Koman 
colony founded by Augustus, after he had subdued the Salassi. It was, 
as Pliny says in C. 5, the extreme point of Italy to the north. The remains 
of the ancient city are of extreme magnificence. 
3 The Grecian pass of the Alps was that now known as the Little St. 
Bernard ; while the Penine pass was the present Grreat St. Bernard. 
Livy in his History, B. xxi. c. 38, points out the error of taking these 
mountains to have derived their name from the Poeni or Carthaginians. 
There is no doubt that they took their name from the Celtic word signi- 
fying a mountain, which now forms the " Pen" of the Welsh and the 
"Ben" of the Scotch. 
* Now called Ivrea or Lamporeggio, at the entrance of the valley of 
the Salassi, the present Yal d' Aosta. There are some remains of the 
ancient town to be seen. 
^ The present town of YerceUi stands on its site. 
^ Now called Novara, in the Duchy of Milan. 
7 It became a Homan municipal town, but owes its greatness to the 
Lombard kings who made it then" capital, and altered the name to Papia, 
now Pavia. 
8 " Pompey's Praises." The present Lodi Yecchio marks its site. 
^ It was the capital of the Insubres, a GaUic nation, and was taken by 
the Bomans in B.C. 222, on which it became a municipium and Boman 
colony. On the division of the empire by Diocletian, it became the 
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