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plikt's katural histoht. 
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the interior of the tenth region are the colonies of Cremona, 
Brixia in the territory of the Cenomanni^ Ateste'^ belonging 
to the Veneti, and the towns of Acelum^, Pat avium Opi- 
tergium, Belunum% and Vicetia; with Mantua®, the only 
city of the Tuscans now left beyond the Padus. Cato in- 
forms us that the Veneti are descendants of the Trojans^, 
and that the Cenomanni^ dwelt among the Volcse in the vici- 
nity of Massilia. There are also the towns of the Pertini^, 
the Tridentini^^, and the Beruenses, belonging to the Ehseti, 
Verona belonging to the Ehseti and the Euganei, and Ju- 
^ Livy seems to imply that Cremona was originally included in the 
territory of the Insubres. A Eoman colony being estabhshed there it 
became a powerful city. It was destroyed by Antonius the general of 
Yespasian, and again by the Lombard king Agilulfus in a.d. 605. No 
remains of antiquity, except a few inscriptions, are to be seen in the 
modern city. 
2 The modern city of Este stands on the site of Ateste. Beyond in- 
scriptions there are no remains of tliis Koman colony. 
3 Asolo stands on its site. 
^ It was said to have been founded by the Trojan xlntenor. Under the 
Homans it was the most important city in the north of Italy, and by its 
commerce and manufactures attained great opulence. It was plundered 
by Attila, and, by Agilulfus, king of the Lombards, was razed to the 
ground. It was celebrated as being the birth-place of Livy. Modern 
Padua stands on its site, but has no remains of antiquity. 
^ Now called Belluno. Yicetia has been succeeded by the modern 
Yicenza. 
^ Mantua was not a place of importance, but was famous as being the 
birth-place of Yirgil ; at least, the poet, who was born at the village of 
Andes, in its vicinity, regarded it as such. It was said to have had its 
name from Manto, the daughter of Tiresias. Yirgil, in the ^neid, B. x., 
alludes to its supposed Tuscan origin. 
7 Led by Antenor, as Livy says, B. i. 
s The Cenomanni, a tribe of the Cisalpine Grauls, seem to have occu- 
pied the country north of the Padus, between the Insubres on the west 
and the Yeneti on the east. From Polybius and Livy we learn that they 
had crossed the Alps within historical memory, and had expelled the 
Etruscans and occupied their territory. They were signahzed for their 
amicable feelings towards the Roman state. 
^ Then' town was Fertria or Feltria, the modern Feltre. 
10 rpjig modern city of Trento or Trent occupies the site of Tridentum, 
their town. It is situate on the Athesis or Adige. It became famous in 
the middle ages, and the great ecclesiastical council met here in 1545. 
It was a Koman colony under the name of Colonia Augusta, 
having originally been the capital of the Euganei, and then of the Ceno- 
