The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
On the coast is Massilia, a colony of Phocæan[1098] Greeks, and a
federate[1099] city; we then have the Promontory of Zao[1100], the
port of Citharista[1101], and the district of the Camatullici[1102];
then the Suelteri[1103], and above them the Verrucini[1104]. Again,
on the coast, we find Athenopolis[1105], belonging to the Massilians,
Forum Julii[1106] Octavanorum, a colony, which is also called Pacensis
and Classica, the river Argenteus[1107], which flows through it, the
district of the Oxubii[1108] and that of the Ligauni[1109]; above whom
are the Suetri[1110], the Quariates[1111] and the Adunicates[1112].
On the coast we have Antipolis[1113], a town with Latian rights, the
district of the Deciates, and the river Varus, which proceeds from
Mount Cema, one of the Alps.
The colonies in the interior are Arelate Sextanorum[1114], Beterræ
Septimanorum[1115], and Arausio[1116] Secundanorum; Valentia[1117]
in the territory of the Cavari, and Vienna[1118] in that of the
Allobroges. The towns that enjoy Latian rights are Aquæ Sextiæ[1119] in
the territory of the Saluvii, Avenio[1120] in that of the Cavari, Apta
Julia[1121] in that of the Volgientes, Alebece[1122] in that of the
Reii Apollinares, Alba[1123] in that of the Helvi, and Augusta[1124]
in that of the Tricastini, Anatilia, Aeria[1125], the Bormanni[1126],
the Comaci, Cabellio[1127], Carcasum[1128] in the territory of
the Volcæ Tectosages, Cessero[1129], Carpentoracte[1130] in the
territory of the Memini, the Cenicenses[1131], the Cambolectri[1132],
surnamed the Atlantici, Forum[1133] Voconi, Glanum Livi[1134], the
Lutevani[1135], also called the Foroneronienses[1136], Nemausum[1137]
in the territory of the Arecomici, Piscenæ[1138], the Ruteni[1139],
the Sanagenses[1140], the Tolosani[1141] in the territory of the
Tectosages on the confines of Aquitania, the Tasconi[1142], the
Tarusconienses[1143], the Umbranici[1144], Vasio[1145] and Lucus
Augusti[1146], the two capitals of the federate state of the Vocontii.
There are also nineteen towns of less note, as well as twenty-four
belonging to the people of Nemausum. To this list[1147] the Emperor
Galba added two tribes dwelling among the Alps, the Avantici[1148] and
the Bodiontici, to whom belongs the town of Dinia[1149]. According to
Agrippa the length of the province of Gallia Narbonensis is 370 miles,
and its breadth 248[1150].
CHAP. 6. (5.)—OF ITALY.
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