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For the ponies cf. Strabo, sup. Similar dwarf horses, ‘ginni,’ were a regular article of export among the Ligurians (cf. Strabo 202), and can be traced in the region as far back as the fourth century (Arist. Hist. Animal. vi. 24. 1; de Gen. An. ii. 8. 24).

Ἐνετῶν. Eneti, i. e. Veneti, were settled round Padua in the plain between the Adige and the Timavo, and were considered by H. Illyrian (i. 196).

ἐν τῷ Ἀδρίῃ, ‘on the Adriatic’ (cf. i. 163; iv. 33), is added to distinguish them not from the Gallic Veneti (Caes. B. G. ii. 34 f.), who were unknown to Herodotus, but from Homer's Paphlagonian Eneti (Il. ii. 852). In Strabo's time the Adriatic Eneti were regarded as a Cisalpine offshoot of the Breton Veneti or as colonists of their Paphlagonian namesakes (Strabo 61, 195, &c.).

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