dinate clans of the same Bituriges. They likewise took up
their abode at first in the countries near Marseilles;* and lastly,
they passed; by the same road as the troops of Bell05res.ua', viz.
over the Taurine Alps into Italyid^ By these collective tribes,
nearly all the-country beyond the Po, which had belonged to
the Etruscans,vwas subdUed. from th e Western Alps down as
far as thë :site o f Verona. The second migration must be
looked upon as,an event altogether.distinct from tlie foregoing«
It happened later m time* from a different: quarter, and by a
different path. The Boii and Lingones issued* from the eastern
parts of Gaul, and descended into Italy from; the north rover
the Pennine Alps; unmixêdt with Ligurians. The'Lingones
came from th e neighbourhood of Langres and the sources:of
the Seine.'f’ The Bóii perhaps issued from a neighbouring
region, but we know not. the original position of .this tribe.'
They: paMsed.through the settlements of • the Insubres towards
the south, and gradually advanced into that part of. northern
Italy which, yet belonged to the Etruscans to thes^ithward of
the P o. Lau s Pompeii/or Lodi on the Addua, was founded by
the Boii, in their transit. | At a later period, all the1 country
from thence to the mouth of the Po belonged to the Insubres,
and the Boii were confined to the southern bank, where' they
. occupied the region between the river and' the Apennine/ini-
eluding the territories of Parma, Modena, and the; Tuscan
Felsinaif; The Senones eame by themsel ve and" asr.thei r '
migration was the last, they were obliged- toppass' the
countries conquered by their predecessors, and fin d ^ b ew
abode for themselves farther towards the south. .-They occupied,
as we have seen, districts in Umbria, on the coast of the
Adriatic.|| _
The fate of these tribes in after times is briefly sketched by
Strabo. He remarks that the country near the Po was ‘forI
* Cenomanos juxta Massiliam habitèsse in Voids, Cato auctor est. Plinius,
H. N. a, 19.
f-D ’Anville tbus places them. Ptolemy says the-Lingoiies and Leuci were under
Mount Jura. He seems to make them conterminous with thè'Helvetii. Their
chief town Andomatunum is Langres.
t Plin. 3 /l7 . ' '§ Polyb. 2, 32. Livius; Plin. ubi supra.
merly inhabited by numerous Celtic tribes. “ The most con-,
sidferable amon-gf-these Celtic,-nations/’ he'adds, “ were the
Boii, t'lje Insubri, and the Senones, who .with the Gæsatæ,
destroyed the. city of Rome.; ] These last, the Senones, were
afterwards entirely‘ destroyed by the Romans; but the Boii
were-driven-|©Uts ©f their seats.- The Insubri. are still in existence.;
- They-had Mediolanum for their metropolis, which was
formerly a village,- for they all inhabited villages, but now a
' Considerable-city beyond the< Po,' and adjoining*; the Alps.
.- Kear to Milan,; they have- Verona,; also, a large city,'and the
smaller??ones: of Brexiay Mantua, Regium, and 'Comum.
Co'murn (Como)fwas a t firsttalso! a ; small town.”*
t”. The Boii, appear rto have, taken a, principal, share- in this
migration j^eross the Alps, a s1 in all the expeditions .of the
(Celtic nations. Pliny,.in desorbing,'the; Country-in Cisal-
pinetGiaul, from which they had-been* expqlled, says-.that Cato
■ reported! thé numbefî©f thëfr tribes*to, havé- beemxyae hundred
and twelve.-f;. Niebuhriseemsinelined t%suppose that the Gauls
J in fParinonia and.Moiiéunkwere' a part of these Boii ,from the
Cisalpine^ and'it ‘appears that Strabo; had, this meaning :;b u t
there -was a great parfièf;the Gallic race^a-s-we shall presently
; already in thfi. countries febbybindi Helvetia,'on the
banks of, the Danube, anch in .the eastern parts óf Germany,
and: in Noricum and Pannonia.
’ olvhaye-been the more careful- to collect the particular state-1
ments,. and-to; illustrate the gênerai tenburof imformation given
by aboient writersy-respecting the settlementsimf the Gauls in
Italy, on''account o f certain disputed points-’ connected with
the history.of;; this invasion. Some;matters of importance in
reference to the general history of the Celtic race,- will befound
to; turn upon tliè question to what department of hàtiosns;-the
Cisalpine Gauls belonged. ''Some have declared that the invaders
were not .Celtic, but Teutonic trihés, and they defend
the assertion on the ground that the conquerors of Italy, as
y§ll as those of Asia Minor afterwards to be mentioned^ àrë’ I
t Plin. H. N, 3. c. 15.
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