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the Salassi to be of Tauriscan origin, but most other 
writers, giving a Grreek^ interpretation to their name, con- 
sider the Lepontii to have been those of the followers of 
Hercules who were left behind in consequence of their limbs 
being frozen by the snow of the Alps. They are also of 
opinion that the inhabitants of the Grrecian Alps are de- 
scended from a portion of the Grreeks of his army, and that 
the Euganeans, being sprung from an origin so illustrious, 
thence took their name^. The head of these are the Stoeni^. 
The Yennonenses^ and the Sarunetes^, peoples of the 
Rhseti, dwell about the sources of the river Ehenus, while 
the tribe of the Lepontii, known as the Uberi, dwell in the 
vicinity of the sources of the Bhodanus, in the same district 
of the Alps. There are also other native tribes here, 
who have received Latin rights, such as the Octodurenses^, 
and their neighbours the Centrones'^, the Cottian^ states, 
the Ligurian Yagienni, descended from the Caturiges^, as 
also those called Montani^^ ; besides numerous nations of the 
Capillati^\ on the confines of the Ligurian Sea. 
^ Making it to come from tlie Grreek verb XetTrw, " to leave behind." 
2 As though being evyeveioi or evycveis, " of honourable descent," or 
" parentage." 
^ Strabo mentions the Stoni or Stoeni among the minor Alpine tribes. 
Mannert thinks that they dwelt near the sources of the river Chiese, 
about the site of the modem village of Storo. 
^ It has been suggested that from them the modern Valtelline takes 
its name. 
^ Hardouin suggests that the Suanetes, who are again mentioned, 
are the people here meant. 
^ They are supposed to have dwelt in the present canton of Martignac 
in the Yalais, and the Yaudois. 
7 They dwelt in the Tarantaise, in the duchy of Savoy. The village 
called Centron still retains their name. 
^ The states subject to Cottius, an Alpine chief, who having gained the 
favour of Augustus, was left by him in possession of this portion of the 
Alps, with the title of Prsefect. These states, in the vicinity of the mo- 
dem Mount Cenis, seem to have extended from Ebrodunum or Embrun 
in Graul, to Segusio, the modem Susa, in Italy, including the Pass of 
Mont G-enevre. The territory of Cottius was united by Nero to the 
Roman empire, as a separate province called the " Alpes Cottise." 
^ They dwelt in the vicinity of Ebrodunum orEmbrun already mentioned. 
10 " mountaineers." Some editions read here " Appuani," so caUed 
from the town of Appua, now Pontremoh. 
The Yagienni, and the Capillati Ligures, or " Long-hau'ed Ligu- 
rians," have been previously mentioned in Chap. 7. 
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