battles of Hercules; the district of the Anatilii[1], and more inland, that of the Desuviates[2] and the Cavari. Again, close upon the sea, there is that of the Tricorii[3], and inland, there are the Tricolli[4], the Vocontii[5], and the Segovellauni, and, after them, the Allobroges[6].
On the coast is Massilia, a colony of Phocæan[7] Greeks, and a federate[8] city; we then have the Promontory of Zao[9], the port of Citharista[10], and the district of the Camatullici[11]; then the Suelteri[12], and above them the Verrucini[13]. Again,
- ↑ The people probably of the site of the present isle of Camargue.
- ↑ They probably inhabited the district south of the Durance, between it and the Rhone.
- ↑ They inhabited the country in which the present Avignon, Orange, Cavaillon, and perhaps Carpentras are situate.
- ↑ They are thought by Hardouin to have dwelt in the vicinity of the present town of Talard in the department of the Hautes Alpes.
- ↑ They inhabited the eastern part of the departments of the Drôme and the Vaucluse.
- ↑ Their territory comprehended the southern part of the department of the Ain, the department of the Isère, the canton of Geneva, and part of Savoy.
- ↑ It was said to have been colonized from Phocæa, a town of Ionia in Asia Minor. Lucan in his Third Book more than once falls into the error of supposing that it was colonized from Phocis in Greece.
- ↑ We learn from Justin, B. xliii., that this privilege, as well as others, and a seat at the public shows, were granted to the Massilians by the Roman Senate, in return for their sympathy and assistance after the city had been taken and plundered by the Gauls.
- ↑ According to D'Anville the present Cap de l'Aigre, though Mannert takes it to be the Cap de la Croisette.
- ↑ D'Anville takes this to be the same as the present Port de la Ciotat.
- ↑ Probably occupying the south-east of the department of the Var. It is supposed by Hardouin that the village of Ramatuelle, near the coast, south of the Gulf of Grimaud, represents the ancient name; and D'Anville and other writers are of the same opinion.
- ↑ Probably the country around the modern Brignole and Draguignan was inhabited by them.
- ↑ They inhabited Verignon and Barjols in the southern part of the department of the Var.
bat of Hercules, and Mela relates that being engaged in a mortal struggle with Albion and Geryon, the sons of Neptune, he invoked the aid of Jupiter, on which a shower of stones fell from the heavens and destroyed his antagonists. Those on this plain are said to be the remains of the stony shower. It is supposed by the scientific that many of these stones are aërolites, and that tradition has ingeniously adapted this story to their real origin. The vicinity of Tunbridge Wells presents a somewhat similar appearance.
