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 308 STRABO. CASATJB. 207. wax, cheese, and honey, of which they have plenty. In the Mount Apennine * which lies above the Garni there is a lake which runs out into the Isar, which river, after receiving another river, the Aude, 2 discharges itself into the Adriatic. From this lake there is also another river, the Atesinus, which flows into the Danube. 3 The Danube itself rises in the mountains which are split into many branches and numerous summits. For from Liguria to here the summits of the Alps stretch along continuously, presenting the appearance of one mountain ; but after this they rise and fall in turns, forming numerous ridges and peaks. The first of these is beyond the Rhine and the lake 4 inclining towards the east, its ridge moderately elevated ; here are the sources of the Danube near to the Suevi and the forest of Hercynia. 5 The other branches extend towards Illyria and the Adriatic, such are the Mount Apennine, already mentioned, Tullum and Phli- gadia, 6 the mountains lying above the Vindelici from whence proceed the Duras, 7 the Clanis, 8 and many other rivers which discharge themselves like torrents into the current of the Danube. . ^ 10. Near to these regions dwell the lapodes, (a nation now r? Vmixed with the Illyrians, and Kelts,) close to them is [the n Mount] Ocra. 9 Formerly the lapodes were numerous, in- habiting either side of the mountain, and were notorious for their predatory habits, but they have been entirely reduced and brought to subjection by Augustus Caspar. Their cities are 1 The Carnic, or Julian Alps, is intended. 2 "Ara. 3 There is, remarks Gosselin, a palpable mistake in this passage. We neither know of a river named the Isar nor yet the Atax discharging themselves into the Adriatic. Atesinus or Athesis are the ancient names of the Adige, but this river flows into the Adriatic, and not, as Strabo seems to say, into the Danube. The error of the text appears to result from a transposition of the two names made by the copyists, and to ren- der it intelligible we should read thus : " There is a lake from which pro- ceeds-, the Atesinus, (or the Adige,) and which, after having received the Atax, (perhaps the Eisach, or Aicha, which flows by Bolzano,) discharges itself into the Adriatic. The Isar proceeds from the same lake, and [passing by Munich] discharges itself into the Danube." 4 Apparently the lake of Constance. 5 The Black Forest. 6 These two chains are in Murlaka, they are now named Telez ana Flicz. 7 The Traun or Wiirm. 8 The Glan in Bavaria. 9 The Julian Alps, and Birnbaumerwald. "~