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 Chap. 19.] ACCOUNT OF COXJNTEIES, ETC. 237 are the Auximates the Beregrani", the Cingulani, the Cu- prenses surnamed Montani^, the Falarienses^, the Pausulani, the Plauinenses, the Ricinenses, the Septempedani^, the Toilentinates, the Treienses, and the Pollentini of Urhs Salvia^ CHAP. 19. (14.) — THE SIXTH EEGION OE ITALY. Adjoining to this is the sixth region, which includes Um- hria and the Gallic territory in the vicinity of Ariminum. At Ancona begins the coast of that part of Graul knoTi as Gallia Togata^. The Siculi and the Liburni possessed the greater part of this district, and more particularly the terri- tories of Palma, of Prsetutia, and of Adria. These were expelled by the Umbri, these again by the Etrurians, and these in their tiuTi by the Gauls. The Umbri are thought to have been the most ancient race in Italy, it being sup- posed that they were called " Ombrii" by the Greeks, from the fact of their having survived the rains^ which had inundated twelve miles south-west of Ancona. Numerous inscriptions, statues, and other remains have been found there. 2 Cluver conjectures that Beregra stood at Civitella di Tronto, ten miles north of Teramo ; but nothing further relative to it is known. Cin- gulum was situate on a lofty moxmtain ; the modern town of Cingoli occupies its site. 3 " The mountaineers." They inhabited Cupra Montana, which is sup- posed to have stood on the same site as the modern Ripa Transone. this town about a niile from the village of Falerona, among which a theatre and amphitheatre are most conspicuous. The remains of Pausula are supposed to be those seen on the Monte deU' Olmo. The town of the Ricinenses is supposed to have been on the banks of the Potenza, two miles from Macerata, where some remains were to be seen in the seventeenth century. Severino, on the river Potenza. ToUentinum or ToUentura was probably on the site of the modem Tolentino. The town of the Treienses is sup- posed to have occupied a site near the modem San Severino, in the vici- nity of Monteccliio. ^ A colony of the people of Pollentia was estabhshcd at Urbs Salvia, occupying the site of the modem Urbisaglia on the bank of the Chiento. 7 Cisalpine Gaul was so called because the mhabitants adopted the use of the Roman toga. 8 This fanciful derivation would make their name to come from the Greek 6fi(ipos " a Bhower."
 * The modem city of Osimo stands on the site of Axiximum, about
 * The people of Falaria or Faleria. There are considerable remains of
 * Septcmpeda is supposed to have occupied the site of the modern San