. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. a Aurelia was carried on under Augustus fromVada Sabbata in Liguria to Arelate on the Rhone, passing throughAntipolis, Forum Julii, and Aquae Sextiae. From Arelate the chief lineof communication with Spain commenced, passing through Xemaususand Xarbo. A road sometimes named Via Domitia ran along the of the Rhone through Vienna to Lugdunum. From Vienna roadsled to the Alpis Graia, Little St. Bernard, and to the Alpis Cottia,3Iont Genevre. 6 Antipolitani, fateor, sum filia tlijTini Essem s
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. a Aurelia was carried on under Augustus fromVada Sabbata in Liguria to Arelate on the Rhone, passing throughAntipolis, Forum Julii, and Aquae Sextiae. From Arelate the chief lineof communication with Spain commenced, passing through Xemaususand Xarbo. A road sometimes named Via Domitia ran along the of the Rhone through Vienna to Lugdunum. From Vienna roadsled to the Alpis Graia, Little St. Bernard, and to the Alpis Cottia,3Iont Genevre. 6 Antipolitani, fateor, sum filia tlijTini Essem si scombri, non tibi missa forem. Mart. xiii. 103. 7 Its beauty is referred to by Martial, and its state of culture may be inferredfrom the circumstance that both his own and Plinys works were to be had at thebooksellers shops there :— Fertur habere meos, si vera est fama, libellos, Inter delicias, pidchra Vienna, suas. Id. vii. 88. It was also famous for its wine :— Haec de vitifera veni-se picata Vienna Ne dubites : misit Romulus ipse mihi. Id. xiii. 107. G38 GALLIA.—LUGDUXENSIS. Book The Passes of the Alps, to illustrate Hannibals Route. HannihaVs March.—The route pursued by Hannibal in his celebratedexpedition from Spain to Italy, lay wholly through the portion of Gaulwe have been describing. He entered it by the E. extremity of thePyrenees, and thence followed the coast-road by Euscino, Narbo, andNemausus/reaching the Ehone a little above Avenio. Having crossedthe river, he followed up the left bank to the Isara, and thence alongthe latter stream to the point where it emerges from the lower ridgesof the Alps near Grenoble. From this point his route is uncertain:according to some authorities he pursued the route marked I. in theaccompanying plan, which follows the Isara, and crosses the Little into the valley of ^a, and thence down to Turin: accordingto others he pursued route 11., which follows the Arc over 3It. Cenis,and thence straight dowTi to
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