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lienses^[1] to the Carni. We then have the following peoples, whom there is no necessity to particularize with any degree of exactness, the Alutrenses, the Asseriates, the Flamonienses^[2] with those surnamed Vanienses, and the others called Culici, the Forojulienses^[3] surnamed Transpadani, the Foretani, the Nedinates^[4], the Quarqueni^[5], the Taurisani^[6], the Togienses, and the Varvari. In this district there have disappeared — upon the coast — Iramene, Pellaon, and Palsatium, Atina and Cælina belonging to the Veneti, Segeste and Ocra to the Carni, and Noreia to the Taurisci. L. Piso also informs us that although the senate disapproved of his so doing, M. Claudius Marcellus^[7] razed to the ground a tower situate at the twelfth mile-stone from Aquileia.

In this region also and the eleventh there are some celebrated lakes^[8], and several rivers that either take their rise in them or else are fed by their waters, in those cases in which they again emerge from them. These are the Addua^[9], fed by the Lake Larius, the Ticinus by Lake Verbannus, the Mincius by Lake Benacus, the Ollius by Lake Sebinnus, and the Lambrus by Lake Eupilis — all of them flowing into the Padus.

manni. It was the birth-place of Catullus, and according to some accounts, of our author, Pliny. Modern Verona exhibits many remains of antiquity.

1. D'Anville says that the ruins of this town are to be seen at the modern Zuglio.
2. Hardouin thinks that their town, Flamonia, stood on the site of the modern Flagogna.
3. Their town, Forum Julii, a Roman colony, stood on the site of the modern Friuli. Paulus Diaconus ascribes its foundation to Julius Cæsar.
4. Supposed by Miller to have inhabited the town now called Nadin or Susied.
5. Their town was probably on the site of the modern Quero, on the river Piave, below Feltre.
6. Probably the same as the Tarvisani, whose town was Tarvisium, now Treviso.
7. The conqueror of Syracuse. The fact here related probably took place in the Gallic war.
8. This must be the meaning; and we must not, as Holland does, enploy the number as signifying that of the lakes and rivers; for the Ticinus is in the eleventh region.
9. Now the Adda, running through Lago di Como, the Tesino through Lago Maggiore, the Mincio through Lago di Garda, the Seo through Lago di Seo, and the Lambro now communicating with the two small lakes called Lago di Pusiano and Lago d'Alserio, which in Pliny's time probably formed one large lake.