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 962 GALLIA TRAHS. of the Nunneto, aloog the eoMt, were the Vestbti; •nd, fbither west, the Osum or Osmnr occapied the eztremitj oT this pemnsnk. The CoKUorrn, a iDttll people m the terrifiorjr of the Oidnni, ire not mentioned by Caessr. The Curiosolitae, one of the Annoric sUtes, are north of the Veneti and east of tiie Ostsmi* The Bkdonvs are mentioned by Caesar among the Armoric states: if they realiy ex- tended to the sea, they cooM only ha^e had the coast about the bay of 5e. Michel The town of Jtennei shows thdr poaition in the interior. As to the Bidncesii mentioned by Ptolemy, or YidncaesB (il 8. § 5), see the artides Biducebh and Vidu- CA8BB8. The position of the AjiBit.iATES, one of the Ar- moric states mentioned by Caesar, is unknown. The Abruccatui are not mentioned by Caesar. The TJiTELU, an Armoric state (B. G. rii. 75), oecnpied the peninsab of Cotantin. The Diabuhtbs and CsiroMANi were east of the Bedones, and north of the Andes. [Aulerci.] A territory adjoining to that of the Cenomani on the west was ooca]iied by the Arvii, a small people not mentioned by Caesar. The Sbsuvii (B. (?. ii. 34) were neighbours of the DiaA>lintes to the north. Caesar and Ptolemy (iL 8. § 5) place only the Lvxovn on the coast between the month of the Seme and the Unelli; bat two small peoples, Baiocasses and Viducasbbs, seem to have been comprised within their territory. The position of the Ebuboviceb is north of the Ceno- mani, and on the nonth side of the Seine, The Carhutes were on the middle course of the Loire; and they also touched a part of the Seine. This position made their territory a central point of nnion for the Celtic nations, as we see in the history of the Gallic War. The Camutes began the great rebellion in b. c. 52, and their submissiain in b. c. 51 was followed by that of the Armoric states. Their country was also the head-quartere of the Celtic Dmids. {B. (?. vi. 13.) The position of the Ambivareti, who are men- tioned by Caesar as dependents of the Aedui, has hitherto been undetermined. In a note to Long*s edition of the Gallic War (vii. 90) reasons are given, which the editor thinks satisfactory, for placing them <»n the east side of the Loir6j opposite to the BitQ- riges Cnbi. The PARisn had part of their territory north of the Seine; but still they were a Celtic people. Their chief place was Lutetia (Parts). Their neighbours the )f BLDi were on the Mame ; and part of their territory was north of this river, which Caesar makes the boundary between the Celtae and the Belgae; which, as well as other like instances, shows that when he names the Oaronne, the jSeme, and the Mame^ as boundaries of the Celtae, he speaks in general terms, and does not aflvct perfect accu- iBcy—- which, in fact, was impossible. Porw was an important position even in Caesar*s time, — being on an island. La Cit^f — and here he held a meeting of the states of Gallia. Under the later empire it became a chief residence. The Meldi on the Mame are not the Meldi whom Caesar speaks of. The Srnonbs occupied the basin of the Sei'fie and the Yonne^ above Parie, — a nation that sent a co- lony to Italy, and once captured Rome. Their ca- pital, Sefw, retains the name of the people, and fixes a central point in their territoiy. The Tricasses were on the main branch of the Seine, above the junction of the Icauna (JTeume) : their diief town Augnstobona is Troj^, The Likooneb were at GALLIA TRA]i& the aonites of the 8am and Jfurae, nd ea tiia high bmds which ran cast to the VesegvB ( Vetgea Gaepar does not tdl ns that tiiej were C^tae, b«t this oonchision may be easily derived fruni bib wan. Ptolemy and Pliny asrign tbem to Bdgien, which is trne as to the political diriooaB of tlwir time; hat the lingones were a Celtic people, and ooe of those that settled in Italy. Ko Bdgic people croased tha Alps or hiTBded Itsly; a &ct whKh, uaong naiiy others, proves that, politically and natjonally, then was a marked distinctioB between the Belgae ssid the Celtae. There is an amlngnity fai C*iisr*i CoaunsBtani which is owing to the wonis Gallia and GaD! haviag two meanings. All Gallia (comis Gallia) comista of three parts, one of which tlw people inhabit, whs call themselves Cdtae, but the Bomans called them Galli. (A O, i 1.) When Caesar nsea the Gallia, he often means all Gallia ; and wben be GaDi, he somedmes means the Gallie people ndly. (A G, iv. 20.) But his description of the habits of the GalK applies mainly, pecfiaps alto- gether, to Cdtica; and in many passagaa, when he nses the word Galli, he means only the inha- bitants of the central part sooth of the Seane. Vt wmj person will read attentively the descriptka of the GalU (A G, vi. 13, &C), he will see that it doea aot apply to the Aquitani, of whom Caesar knew voy little, and had little to do with ; and certainly not at all to a very large part of the people whom ha inclndes in the general term Belgae. He cenai i lfr ed many of these Belgae to be Gennana, pore aad mixed. Of the Menapii and Nerrii he knew fittk. The Trevtri he considered to be as bmtal aa their neighboun the Germans. (B. G. viii. S5.) The Morini have a Celtic name, and were of Gallic etodt, but they were chiefly hog-feeders and cattle-feeders; they had not the civilisation of the tniltivBtocs d the ground. The Bellovsd and the other pore Belgae were a wariike race, and 1h^ had towns, which indicates a certain degree of dvifiaatioa. They were nearer, both in position and chamclcr, to the Celtic tribes than any other of Uie Belgae, except the RemL It seems probalile that the Ar- moric peoples, the Veneti and others, boi^ mari- time, were in many respects diflerent frian the inland Celtae. Those Celtae, whose habits Caesar describes, the most civilised of the nation, were the HelwtS, Sequani, Aedui, Arvemi, Carantes, Senooe a, aad their dependents. The Bemi, though indoded k Caesar's general term Belgae, seem to haw been closely connected with their southern neig^boors; and in Caesar's time they were the rhah of tlii Aedui. (B. G. vi. 12.) In a vine-growing country, and one vrfaere the vine is indigenous, as it is in Gallia, the caltnre of this plant b an indication of greater civility and «f general social improvement Stiabo (pi 178) scum to suppose that in his time the vine hanUy pio- duoed any thing north of the Ovmrnee, In the third century of the Christian aera it was cnllivatfd on the slopes aloi^ the waters of the MomL Bat Gallia was, in Strabo's time, and even earHcr, ritk in cattle and hogs : and it had abundance of good pasture and good horses, as their large cavalij fores shows. The Galli would give a large amn ftr a good horse. (B. (r. iv. 2.) The southern and eentnl parts were cleared to a great extent, and con was grown in abundance even north of the Seme, The Prorinda was considered by the Bomans as another Italy in climate and prodocts: and Stiabo aajs