Convenæ,[1419] which name signifies people assembled from different countries to dwell in one place. Here is the city of Lugdunum,[1420] and the hot springs of the Onesii,[1421] which are most excellent for drinking. The country of the Auscii[1422] likewise is fine. 2. The nations between the Garonne and the Loire annexed to the Aquitani, are the Elui,[1423] who commence at the Rhone. After these the Vellæi,[1424] who were formerly comprehended amongst the Arverni,[1425] but now form a people to themselves. After these Arverni come the Lemovices,[1426] and Petrocorii,[1427] and after them the Nitiobriges,[1427] the Cadurci,[1427] and the Bituriges,[1427] surnamed Cubi. Along the ocean we meet with the Santoni, and Pictones,[1428] the former dwelling by the Garonne, as we have stated, and the latter by the Loire. The Ruteni and the Gabales[1429] are in the vicinity of the Narbonnaise. The Petrocorii and Bituriges-Cubi possess excellent iron-works, the Cadurci linen-factories, and the Ruteni silver-mines: the Gabales likewise possess silver-mines. On certain amongst the Aquitani the Romans have conferred the rights of Latin cities; such for instance as the Auscii, and the Convenæ. 3. The Arverni are situated along the Loire. Nemossus, their metropolis, is built on the same river.[1430] This river having flowed past Genabum,[1431] an emporium of the Carnutes,[1432] situated about the middle of its course, discharges itself into the ocean. A great proof of the former power of the Arverni, is the fact of the frequent wars which they sustained against the Romans, sometimes with armies of 200,000 men, and sometimes with double that number, which was the amount of their force when they fought against divus Cæsar under the command of Vercingetorix.[1433] Before this they had brought 200,000 men against Maximus Æmilianus, and the same number against Domitius Ænobarbus. Their battles with Cæsar took place, one in Gergovia,[1434] a city of the Arverni situated on a lofty mountain, the birth-place of Vercingetorix; the other, near to Alesia,[1435] a city of the Mandubii, who border on the Arverni; this city is likewise situated on a high hill, surrounded by mountains, and between two rivers. Here the war was terminated by the capture of their leader. The battle with Maximus Æmilianus was fought near the confluence of the Isère and the Rhone, at the point where the mountains of the Cevennes approach the latter river. That with Domitius was fought lower down at the confluence of the Sulgas[1436] and the Rhone. The Arverni extended their dominion as far as Narbonne and the borders of Marseilles, and exercised authority over the nations as far as the Pyrenees, the ocean, and the Rhine. Luerius,[1437] the father of Bituitus who fought against Maximus and Domitius, is said to have been so distinguished by his riches and luxury, that to give a proof of his opulence to his friends, he caused himself to be dragged across a plain