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 Chap. 32.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 355 • formerly free, and the Lingones a federal state, the federal Eemi-, the Mediomatriei^, the Sequaui*, the Eaiiriei', and the Helvetii®. The Eoman colonies are Equestris'' and Eauriaca^. The nations of Germany which dwell in this province, near the sources of the Ehine, are the JN'emetes^, the Triboci^^, and the Vangiones" ; nearer again ^^, the Ubii'^, the Colony '■* of Agrippina, the Cugerni^% the Batavi^^, and the peoples whom we have already mentioned as dwelling on the islands of the Ehine. CHAP. 32. (18.) — GALLIA LUGDUNENSIS. That part of Gaul which is known as Lugdunensis-' con- the Haute Marne. 2 They gave name to the city of Rlieims m the department of the Marne. 3 Their chief town stood on the site of the modern Metz, in the department of the IVIoselle. ■* Besanfon stands on the site of their chief town, in the department of the Doubs, extending as far as Bale. ^ The inhabitants of the district called the Haut Ehin or Higher Rhine. ^ The inhabitants of the west of Switzerland. "^ Or the "Equestrian Colony," probably founded by theRomanEquites. It is not known where this colony was situate, but it is suggested by Cluver and Monetus that it may have been on the lake of Geneva, in the vicinity of the modern to^vn of Xyon. ^ Littre, in a note, remarks that Rauriaca is a barbarism, and that the readuig properly is " Rairica." ^ Spire was their chief city, in the province of the Rhine. ^^ They are supposed to have occupied Strasbourg, aiad the greater part of the department of the Lower Rliine. ^^ They dwelt in the modem Grand Duchy of HesseDarmstadt ; "Worms was their chief city. ^- That is, nearer the mouths of the Rliine. ^3 They originally dwelt on the right bank of the Rhine, but were transported across the river by Agrippa in B.C. 37, at their own request, from a wish to escape the attacks of the Suevi. ^^ Now known as the city of Cologne. It took its name from Agrippina, the wife of ClaucHus and the mother of Nero, who was born tliore, and who, as Tacitus says, to show olFher power to the allied nations, planted a colony of veteran soldiers in her native city, and gave to it her own name. '5 Their district was in the modem circle of Cloves, in the province of Juhers-Berg- Cloves. '^ Dwelhng in the Insula Batavorum, mentioned in C. 29 of the pre- sent Book. '7 He first speaks of the nations on the coast, and then of those more in the interior. 2 a2
 * Their chief town was on the site of Langrcs, in the department of