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
The whole of Gaul that is comprehended under the one general name of
_Comata_[2950], is divided into three races of people, which are more
especially kept distinct from each other by the following rivers. From
the Scaldis to the Sequana[2951] it is Belgic Gaul; from the Sequana
to the Garumna[2952] it is Celtic Gaul or Lugdunensis[2953]; and from
the Garumna to the promontory of the Pyrenæan range it is Aquitanian
Gaul, formerly called Aremorica[2954]. Agrippa makes the entire length
of the coast of Gaul to be 1800 miles, measured from the Rhine to the
Pyrenees: and its length, from the ocean to the mountains of Gebenna
and Jura, excluding therefrom Gallia Narbonensis, he computes at 420
miles, the breadth being 318.
Beginning at the Scaldis, the parts beyond[2955] are inhabited by the
Toxandri, who are divided into various peoples with many names; after
whom come the Menapii[2956], the Morini[2957], the Oromarsaci[2958],
who are adjacent to the burgh which is known as Gesoriacum[2959],
the Britanni[2960], the Ambiani[2961], the Bellovaci[2962], the
Hassi[2963], and, more in the interior, the Catoslugi[2964], the
Atrebates[2965], the Nervii[2966], a free people, the Veromandui[2967],
the Suæuconi[2968], the Suessiones[2969], a free people, the
Ulmanetes[2970], a free people, the Tungri[2971], the Sunuci[2972], the
Frisiabones[2973], the Betasi[2974], the Leuci[2975], a free people,
the Treveri[2976], who were formerly free, and the Lingones[2977],
a federal state, the federal Remi[2978], the Mediomatrici[2979], the
Sequani[2980], the Raurici[2981], and the Helvetii[2982]. The Roman
colonies are Equestris[2983] and Rauriaca[2984]. The nations of
Germany which dwell in this province, near the sources of the Rhine,
are the Nemetes[2985], the Triboci[2986], and the Vangiones[2987];
nearer again[2988], the Ubii[2989], the Colony[2990] of Agrippina, the
Cugerni[2991], the Batavi[2992], and the peoples whom we have already
mentioned as dwelling on the islands of the Rhine.
CHAP. 32. (18.)—GALLIA LUGDUNENSIS.
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