B. v, c. ii. 1. ITALY. ETRURIA. 325 one or on both sides, are made. The mines are not worked now so diligently, because not equally profitable with those of Transalpine Keltica and Iberia ; but formerly they must have been, since there were gold-diggings even in Vercelli, near to Ictimuli, 1 both which villages are near to Placentia. 2 Here we finish our description of the first part of Italy, and pass on to the second. CHAPTER II. 1. IN the second place, we shall treat of that portion of Ligu- ria situated in the Apennines, between the Keltica 3 already described and Tyrrhenia. There is nothing worth mention- ing about it, except that the people dwell in villages, ploughing and digging the intractable land, or rather, as Posidonius ex- presses it, hewing the j*ocks. The third division contains the Tyrrhenians, who dwell "~ next the former, and inhabit the plains extending to the Tiber, which river, as far as its outlet, washes the side towards the east, the opposite side being washed by the Tyrrhenian and Sardinian sea. The Tiber flows from the Apennines, and is swelled by many rivers ; it flows partly through Tyrrhenia, dividing it in the first instance from Ombffca, 4 afterwards I from the Sabini and the Latini, who are situated next Rome | as far as tHe^ea-coast ; so ^Kat these countries are bounded """" in their breadth by the river [Tiber] and the Tyrrhenians, and in their length by each other. They extend upwards towards the Apennines which approach the Adriatic. The fip^t 5 are the Ombrici, after these the Sabini, and finally the inhabitants of Latium. They all commence from the river. The country of fnlT Latini extends on one side along the sea- coast from Ostia to the city of Sinuessa, on the other it is bounded by the land of the Sabini, (Ostia is the port of Rome, through which the Tiber passes in its course,) it 1 Probably Victimolo. 2 Piacenza. 3 Gallia Cispadana. 4 'OfiflpiKij, now Ombria. 5 Or nearest to the Adriatic.
