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Pliny's natural histoet. 
[Book III. 
It may not be inappropriate in tliis place to subjoin tbe 
inscription now to be seen upon the trophy^ erected on the 
Alps, which is to the following effect : — " To the Empeeor 
Cjssar — The son^ oe C^sar kow deieied, Augustus, 
PONTIEEX MaXIMUS, AND EMPEROR FOURTEEN TEARS, IN 
THE SEYENTEENTH^ TEAR OF HIS HOLDING THE TRIBUNI- 
TIAL AUTHORITT, THE SeNATE AND THE EOMAN PEOPLE, IN 
REMEMBRANCE THAT UNDER HIS COMMAND AND AUSPICES 
ALL THE Alpine nations which extended prom the 
UPPER SEA TO THE LOWER WERE REDUCED TO SUBJECTION 
BT THE EOMAN PEOPLE — ThE AlPINE NATIONS SO SUB- 
DUED WERE : THE TrIUMPILINI, THE CaMUNI, THE Ye- 
NOSTES^, THE VeNNONENSES, THE ISARCI, THE BrEUNI, 
THE Genaunes^, the Focunates, pour nations oe the 
ViNDELICI, THE CONSUANETES, THE EUCINATES, THE 
LlCATES^, THE CATENATES, THE AmBISONTES, THE E/U- 
GUSCI, THE SUANETES^, THE CaLUCONES, THE BrIX- 
ENTES, THE LePONTII, THE UbERI, THE NaNTUATES, THE 
Seduni, the Varagri, the Salassi, the Acitayones, 
^ The trophy or triumphal arch which bore tliis mscription is that 
which was stiU to be seen at Torbia near Nicaea in lllyria, in the time of 
Gruter, who has given that portion of the mscription which remained 
unobhterated, down to "gentes Alpinse," "the Alpine nations." Har- 
douin speaks of another trimnphal arch in honom* of Augustus at Segusio 
or Susa in Piedmont, which appears to have commenced in a somewhat 
similar manner, but only the first twelve words were remaining in 1671. 
2 Adopted son of his great uncle Juhus Caesar. 
3 Most of the MSS. omit the figures XYII here, but it is evidently 
an accident ; if indeed they were omitted in the original. 
They are supposed to have occupied the Yal Yenosco, at the sources 
of the Adige. The Isarci dwelt in the Yal de Sarra or Sarclia, near Yal 
Oamonica ; and the Breuni in the Yal Brounia or Bregna, at the source 
Df the Tessino. 
^ D'Anville thinks that they inhabited the Yal d'Agno, near Trento, 
between Lake Como and the Adige. He also detects the name of the 
Focimates in the village of Yogogna. 
^ They inhabited the banks of the river Lech, their town being, ac- 
cording to Strabo, Damasia, afterwards Augusta YindeHcorum, now 
Augsburg. 
7 Probably the Sarunetes, already mentioned. The Brixentes inha- 
bited the modern Brixen in the Tyrol. The Lepontii have been pre- 
viously mentioned. The Seduni occupied the present Sion, the capital 
of the Yalais. The Salassi have been already mentioned. According to 
Bouche, the MeduUi occupied the modern Maurienne in Savoy. The 
Yaragri dwelt in Le Chablais. 
