rejoicing over the wine which they contain. We may perhaps bring them into connection with the serene picture which the poet of Bordeaux has preserved to us of the Moselle valley, with its magnificent castles, its many vineyards, and its stirring doings of fishermen and of sailors, and find in it the proof that in this fair land, more than fifteen hundred years ago, there was already the pulsation of peaceful activity, serene enjoyment, and warm life. Footnotes. [38: The domain of Iberian coins reaches decidedly beyond the Pyrenees, though the interpretation of individual coin-legends, which are among others referred to Perpignan and Narbonne, is not certain. As all these coinings took place under Roman authorisation, this suggests the question whether this portion of the subsequent Narbonensis was not at an earlier date--namely before the founding of Narbo (636 U.C.) {118.}--under the governor of Hither Spain. There are no Aquitanian coins with Iberian legends any more than from north-western Spain, probably because the Roman supremacy, under whose protection this coinage grew up, did not, so long as the latter lasted, _i.e._ perhaps up to the Numantine war, embrace those regions.] [39: This is shown by the remarkable inscription of Avignon (Herzog. _Gall. Narb._ n. 403): _T. Carisius T. f. pr[aetor] Volcar[um] dat_--the oldest evidence for the Roman organisation of the commonwealth in these regions.] [40: Noviodunum (Nyon on the lake of Geneva) alone perhaps in the three Gauls may be compared, as regards plan, with Lugudunum (iv. 254) {iv. 242.}; but, as this community emerges later as civitas Equestrium (_Inscrip. Helvet._ 115), it seems to have been inserted among the cantons, which was not the case with Lugudunum.] [41: The persons earlier driven forth from Vienna by the Allobroges (οἱ ἐκ Οὐιέννης τῆς Ναρβωνησίας ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀλλοβρίγων ποτὲ ἐκπεσόντες), in Dio, xlvi. 50, cannot well have been other than Roman citizens, for the foundation of a burgess-colony for their benefit is intelligible only on this supposition. The "earlier" expulsion probably stood connected with the rising of the Allobroges under Catugnatus in 693 {61.} (iv. 223) {iv. 213.}. The explanation why the dispossessed were not brought back, but were settled elsewhere, is not forthcoming; but various reasons prompting such a course may be conceived, and the fact itself is not thereby called in question. The revenues accruing to the city (Tacitus, _Hist._ i. 65) may have been conferred upon it possibly at the expense of Vienna.] [42: The ground belonged formerly to the Segusiavi (Plin. _H. N._ iv. 15, 107; Strabo, p. 186, 192), one of the small client-cantons of the Haedui (Caesar, _B. G._ vii. 75); but in the cantonal division it counts not as one of these, but stands for itself as μητρόπολις (Ptolem. ii. 8, 11, 12).]