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CHAP. 32. (18.)—GALLIA LUGDUNENSIS.

That part of Gaul which is known as Lugdunensis1 con- tains the Lexovii2, the Vellocasses3, the Galeti4, the Veneti5, the Abrincatui6, the Ossismi7, and the celebrated river Ligeris8, as also a most remarkable peninsula, which extends into the ocean at the extremity9 of the territory of the Ossismi, the circumference of which is 62510 miles, and its breadth at the neck 12511. Beyond this are the Nannetes12, and in the interior are the Ædui13, a federal people, the Carnuti14, a federal people, the Boii15, the Senones16, the Aulerci, both those surnamed Eburovices17 and those called Cenomanni18, the Meldi19, a free people, the Parisii20, the Tricasses21, the An- decavi22, the Viducasses23, the Bodiocasses24, the Venelli25, the Cariosvelites26, the Diablinti27, the Rhedones28, the Turones29, the Atesui30, and the Secusiani31, a free people, in whose territory is the colony of Lugdunum32.

1 He first speaks of the nations on the coast, and then of those more in the interior.

2 Dwelling in the west of the department of Calvados, and the east of the department of the Eure. From them Lisieux takes its name.

3 They occupied the department of the Lower Seine.

4 They are supposed to have dwelt in the vicinity of Lillebonne, in the department of the Lower Seine.

5 They gave name to the town of Vannes in the department of Morbihan.

6 From them the city of Avranches, in the department of La Manche, derives its name.

7 They occupied the modern department of Finisterre.

8 The Loire.

9 This spot is placed by D'Anville near the modern city of Saint Brieuc. He refers here to the peninsula of Brittany, which ends in Finisterre.

10 Ansart remarks that the circuit of the peninsula from Saint Brieuc to the mouth of the river Vilaine is only 450 miles, but that if taken from the city of Avranches to the mouth of the Loire, it is 650.

11 Ansart states that from Avranches to the mouth of the Loire, in a straight line, is twenty miles less than the distance here given by Pliny.

12 Inhabitants of the department of the Lower Loire or Loire Inférieure.

13 This extensive people inhabited the present departments of the Saone et Loire, Allier, Nievre, Rhone nord, and Loire nord. Autun and Chalonssur-Marne stand on the site of their ancient towns.

14 They inhabited the departments of the Eure et Loire, and portions of those of the Seine et Oise, of the Loire et Cher, and of the Loiret. Chartres occupies the site of their town.

15 They occupied a part of the department of the Allier. Moulins stands on the site of their chief town.

16 Sens, in the department of the Yonne, stands on the site of their chief town.

17 The chief town of the Aulerci Eburovices was on the site of the present Passy-sur-Eure, called by the inhabitants Old Evreux, in the department of the Eure.

18 They dwelt in the vicinity of the city of Le Mans, in the department of the Sarthe.

19 Meaux, in the department of the Seine et Marne, denotes the site of their principal town.

20 Paris, anciently Lutetia, denotes their locality.

21 The city of Troyes, in the department of the Aube, denotes their locality.

22 Their chief town stood on the site of Angers, in the department of the Maine et Loire.

23 D'Anville says that their chief town stood on the spot now known as Vieux, two leagues from Caen, in the department of Calvados.

24 The reading here is not improbably "Vadicasses." If so, they were a people situate at a great distance from the other tribes here mentioned by Pliny. They dwelt in the department De l'Oise, in the district formerly known as Valois, their chief town or city occupying the site of Vez, not far from Villers Cotterets.

25 D'Anville assigns to the Venelli, or Unelli, as some readings have it, the former district of Cotantin, now called the department of La Manche.

26 According to D'Anville, Corseuil, two leagues from Dinan, in the department of the Côtes du Nord, denotes the site of their chief town. Hardouin takes Quimper to mark the locality.

27 They are supposed by Ansart to have occupied that part of the department of La Mayenne where we find the village of Jublains, two leagues from the city of Mayenne.

28 D'Anville assigns to them the greater part of the department of the Ile et Vilaine, and is of opinion that the city of Rennes occupies the site of Condate, their chief town.

29 Tours, in the department of the Indre et Loire, marks the site of their chief town.

30 They are supposed to have occupied a portion of the department of the Loire.

31 They probably occupied a part of the department of the Loire, as also of that of the Rhone. Their town, Forum Secusianorum, stood on the site of the present Feurs, in the department of the Loire.

32 The city of Lyons occupies the site of ancient Lugdunum. It is suggested by Hardouin, that the name Lugdunum is a corruption of "Lucudunum," a compound of the Latin word lucus, "a grove," and the Celtic dun, "a hill" or "mountain."

The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.

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