254 pltitt's kattoal histoht. [Book III. 
Cselius states tliat the length, of the Alps from the Upper 
Sea to the Lower is 1000 miles, a distance which Tima- 
genes shortens by twentj-two. Cornelius JSTepos assigns to 
them a breadth of 100 miles, and T. Livius of 3000 stadia; 
but then in different places. Eor in some localities thej 
exceed 100 miles ; where they divide Grermany, for instance, 
from Italy ; w^hile in other parts they do not reach seventy, 
being thus narrowed by the providential dispensation of 
nature as it were. The breadth of Italy, taken from the 
river Var at the foot of these mountains, and passing along 
by the Vada^ Sabatia, the Taurini,* Comum, Brixia, Verona, 
Yicetia, Opitergium, Aquileia, Tergeste, Pola, and Arsia, is 
745 miles. 
CHAP. 24. (20.) — THE ALPS, AND THE ALPII^E TiTATIOFS. 
Many nations dwell among the Alps; but the more 
remarkable, between Pola and the district of Tergeste, are 
the Secusses, the Subocrini, the Catali, the Menocaleni, and 
near the Carni the people formerly called the Taurisci, but 
now the Norici. Adjoining to these are the E/hseti and the 
Vindelici, w^ho are all divided into a multitude of states. It 
is supposed that the Shaeti are the descendants of the Tus- 
cans, who were expelled by the G-auls and migrated hither 
under the command of their chief, whose name was Rhaetus. 
Turning then to the side of the Alps which fronts Italy, w^e 
have the Euganean^ nations enjoying Latin rights, and of 
whom Cato enumerates thirty-foiu^ towns. Among these are 
the Triumpilini, a people who were sold^ with their terri- 
tory ; and then the Camuni, and several similar tribes, each 
of them in the jurisdiction of its neighbouring municipal 
town. The same author also considers the Lepontii^ and 
1 Now Yado in Ligiiria, the harbour of Sabbata or Savo. Using the 
modem names, the Ime thus drawn runs past Yado, Turin, Como, Bres- 
cia, Yerona, Yicenza, Oderzo, Aquileia, Trieste, Pola, and the Arsa. 
2 It is from this people that the group of volcanic hills between Padua 
and Yerona derive their present name of CoUi Euganei or the " Euganean 
Hills." From the Triumpihni and the Camuni, the present Yal Camo- 
nica and Yal Trompia derive their names. 
3 Probably meaning, that for a sum of money they originally acknow- 
ledged their subjection to the Roman power. 
4 The Lepontii probably dwelt in the modern Yal Leventina and the 
Yal d'Osula, near Lago Maggiore ; the S^lassi in the Yal d'Aosta. 
