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 Chap. 33.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 357 decavi the Yiducasses^, the Bodiocasses^, the Yenelli'', the Cariosvelites*, the Diabliiiti^, the llhedones, the Turones., the Atesui^, and the JSccusiaui^", a free people, in whose ter- ritory is the colony of Lugdunum". CHAP. 33. (19.) — GALLIA AQUITANICA. In Aquitanica are the Ambilatri^-, the Anagnutes^^, the the Maine et Loire, 2 D'Anville says that their chief town stood on the spot now known as Yieux, two leagues from Caen, in the department of Calvados. ^ The reading here is not improbably " Vadicasses." If so, they were a people situate at a great distance from the other tribes here mentioned by Pliny. They dwelt in the department De I'Oise, in the district for- merly knowTi as Yalois, their cliief town or city occupying the site of Vez, not far from Tillers Cotterets. •* D'Anville assigns to the Venclli, or UneUi, as some readmgs have it, the former district of Cotantin, now called the department of La Manche. ^ According to D'Anville, Corseuil, two leagues from Dinan, in the department of the Cotes du Nord, denotes the site of their cliief town. Hardouin takes Quhnper to mark the locality. ^ They are supposed by Ansart to have occupied that part of the department of La Mayenne where we find the village of Jublaiiis, two leagues from the city of Mayenne. 7 D'Anville assigns to them the greater part of the department of the lie et YUaine, and is of opinion that the city of Rennes occupies the site of Condate, their chief town. ^ Toiu's, in the department of the Indre et Loire, marks the site of their cliief town. ^ They are supposed to have occupied a portion of the department of the Loire. ^^ They probably occupied a part of the department of the Loire, as also of that of the Rhone. Then* town. Forum Secusianoruiu, stood on the site of the present Feurs, in the department of the Loire. '^ The city of Lyons occupies the site of ancient Lugdunum. It is suggested by Ilardouin, that the name Lugdunum is a corruption of " Lucudunum," a compound of the Latm word lucus, *' a grove," and the CoUic dun, "a hill" or "mountain." ^- They are mentioned by Ciesar (B. C. iii. 9), in conjunction with the Nannetes, Morini, and others, but notliing can be inferreil as to the precise ])osition they occupied. ^3 Their locality also is unknoTi, but it is supposed that they dwelt in the vicinity of the department of La Vendee.
 * Their cliief town stood on the site of Angers, in the department of