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 STRABO. CASAUB. 200. [ock upon the soldiers under pretence of making >uilding bridges over the rivers. Afterwards )nrpletely overthrew them, and carried them to Roman colony which had been planted as a bulwark against the Salassi, although the inhabitants were able to do but little against them until the nation was destroy- ed ; their numbers amounted to 36,000 persons, besides 8000 men capable of bearing arms. Terentius Varro, the general who defeated them, sold them all by public auction, as enemies taken in war. Three thousand Romans sent out by Augustus founded the city of Augusta, 2 on the spot where Varro had encamped, and now the whole surrounding country, even to the summits of the mountains, is at peace. 8. Beyond, both the eastern parts of the mountains, and those likewise inclining to the south, are possessed by the Rhseti and Vindelici, who adjoin the Helvetii and Boii, and press upon their plains. The Rhsetj extend as far as Italy above Verona and Como. The Rhastian wine, which is esteemedTnbt inferior to the finest wines of Italy, is produced [from vines which grow] at the Toot of the mountains. These people extend also as far as the districts through which the Rjiirijg, flows. The Lepontii and Camuni are of their nation. The Vindelici and Norici possess, for the most part, the opposite side of the mountains together with the Breuni and Genauni, who form part of the Illyrians. 3 All these people were continually making incursions both into the neighbour- ing parts of Italy, and into [the countries] of the Helvetii, the expression of Ceesar in its wider sense of Emperor, and alludes to Augustus, of whom he speaks immediately after. 1 Ivrea. 2 Aouste. 3 The limits of these barbarous nations were continually varying ac- cording to their success in war, in general, however, the Rhaeti possessed the country of the Grisons, the Tyrol, and the district about Trent. The Lepontii possessed the Val Leventina. The Camuni the Val Camonica. The Vindelici occupied a portion of Bavaria and Suabia; on their west were the Helvetii or Swiss, and on the north the Boii, from whom they were separated by the Danube ; these last people have left their name to Bohemia. The Norici possessed Styria, Carinthia, a part of Austria and Bavaria to the south of the Danube. The Breuni have given their name to the Val Braunia north of the Lago Maggiore ; and the Genauni appear to have inhabited the Val Agno, between Lake Maggiore and the Lake of Como, although Strabo seems to place these people on the northern side of the Alps, towards the confines of Illyria.