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ambigatus, the firll king of the Celtic Gaul upon re- 
cord, who M about 400 ( d ) years before christ, governed 
all the country lituated between the Alps and the Pyre- 
naean mountains, fent out two formidable armies under 
the command of two of his nephews ; one of whom, 
named segovisius, forced his way into the heart of Ger- 
many: and the other, bellovisius, having palled the 
- Alps, penetrated into Italy as far as the fettlements of the 
Tufcans, which at that time extended over the greatell 
part of the country now called Lombardy. Thefe, and 
feveral other fwarms of invaders whom the fucceffes of 
the former foon after attracted, having totally fubdued 
that country, built Milan, Verona, Brefcia, and feveral 
other conliderable towns, and governed with fuch tyran- 
nic fway, efpecially over the nobility, whofe riches they 
coveted and fought by every means to extort from them, 
that moil of the principal families, joining under the con- 
duct of RHiETUs (*)) one of the moll diltinguifhed perfo- 
nages among them, retired with the bell part of their 
cffedls and attendants among the lleepell mountains of 
the Alps, near the fources of the Rhine, into the diltridt 
which is now called the Grey League. 
a few manufcript copies of it extant in the hands of private perfons in the Gri- 
fons, 1 have not been able to avail myfelf of his refearches. guler and 
stumpfius might alfo have furnifhed fome material information; but neither 
©f them have I had an opportunity of infpefting. 
( c ) Liv. lib. v. c. 34. 
(d) Other authors place the reign of this king 180 years earlier. 
(e) plin. lib. iii. c. 5. justin. lib. xx. c. 5. 
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