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Gallic Settlements In the Valley of the Po
To continue my description. These plains were
anciently inhabited by Etruscans,Livy. 5. 17, 33-49;
Plutarch, Camillus, 16; Mommsen, History of
Rome, vol. i. p. 338 (Eng. tr.) at the same
period as what are called the Phlegraean plains
round Capua and Nola; which latter, however,
have enjoyed the highest reputation, because
they lay in a great many people's way and so got known.
In speaking then of the history of the Etruscan Empire,
we should not refer to the district occupied by them at the
present time, but to these northern plains, and to what they
did when they inhabited them. Their chief intercourse was
with the Celts, because they occupied the adjoining districts;
who, envying the beauty of their lands, seized some slight
pretext to gather a great host and expel the Etruscans from
the valley of the Padus, which they at once took possession
of themselves. First, the country near the source of the
Padus was occupied by the Laevi and Lebe