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formerly free, and the Lingones\ a federal state, the federal 
Eemi^, the Mediomatrici^, the Sequani^, the Eaurici^, and 
the Helvetii^ The Eoman colonies are Equestris^ and 
Eauriaca^. The nations of G-ermany which dwell in this 
province, near the sources of the Ehine, are the Nemetes^, 
the Triboci^^, and the Yangiones^^ ; nearer again the TJbii^^, 
the Colony of Agrippina, the Cugerni^^, the Batavi^^, and 
the peoples whom we have already mentioned as dwelling 
on the islands of the Ehine. 
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CHAP. 32. (18.) — GALLIA LrGDUKEl^SIS. 
That part of Gaul which is known as Lugdunensis-'' con- 
1 Their chief town was on the site of Langres, in the department of 
the Haute Marne. 
2 They gave name to the city of Rheims in the department of the Marne. 
3 Their chief town stood on the site of the modern Metz, in the 
department of the Moselle. 
^ Besan9on stands on the site of their chief town, in the department 
of the Douhs, extending as far as Eale. 
^ The inhabitants of the district called the Hant Khin or Higher Rhine. 
^ The inhabitants of the west of Switzerland. 
^ Or the "Equestrian Colony," probably founded by the Roman Equites. 
It is not known where this colony was situate, but it is suggested by 
Cluver and Monetus that it may have been on the lake of Greneva, in the 
vicinity of the modern town of Nyon. 
s Littre, in a note, remarks that Rauriaca is a barbarism, and that the 
reading properly is " Raurica." 
^ Spire was their chief city, in the province of the Rhine. 
1^ They are supposed to have occupied Strasbourg, and the greater part 
of the department of the Lower Rhine. 
1^ They dwelt in the modem GrrandDuchy of HesseDarmstadt ; Worms 
was their chief city. That is, nearer the mouths of the Rhine, 
^3 They originally dwelt on the right bank of the Rhine, but were 
transported across the river by Agrippa in B.C. 37, at their own request, 
from a wish to escape the attacks of the Suevi. 
Now known as the city of Cologne. It took its name from Agrippina, 
the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero, who was born there, and who, 
as Tacitus says, to show off her power to the aUied nations, planted a colony 
of veteran soldiers in her native city, and gave to it her own name. 
Their district was in the modern circle of Cleves, in the province of 
Juliers-Berg- Cleves. 
^6 DweUuig in the Insula Batavomm, mentioned in C. 29 of the pre- 
sent Book. 
^7 He first speaks of the nations on the coast, and then of those more 
in the interior. 
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