5. Euganei, who were settled at the bottom of the Adriatic Gulph, and whose towns were and Verona.
6. Veneti, who possessed the country along the coast of the Adriatic, from the mouth of the Po to that of the Taia mento, of which the chief towns were Patavium, Aquileia, and Forum Julii. 7. Istri, wk.) inhabited a tract along the eastern coast of the Adriatic, between the river Tilavemp tus, and the promontory of Polaticum, whose principal towns were Aquileia and 'rergeste. 8. Buii, who inhabited the countries around Bononia and Mutina, (Bologna and Modena.) Italia Propria, under which is commonly included the other division of Magna Grecia, contained, in this more extended sense, all the other provinces of the country, namely, 1. Etruria or Tyrrhenia, lying between the river Maefa, the Appenine Mountains, the Tiber and the'Tuscan Sea, was anciently divided into twelve districts, and con tained the towns of Pisan, Luca, Florentia, Fesulx, Portus Ilerculis, Liburni (Leghorn) Sena, Arretium, Centum Cam (Civita Vecchia), &c. 2. Umbria, the supposed ter ritory of the most ancient people of Italy, lying between the Rubicon, the Adriatic, the Tiber, and an imaginary line from the mouth of the £sis to Ocriculum, and divided by the Appenines into two portions, the Cisappenine, or Mari time Umbria, and the Transappenine, or hither Umbria, contained, in the former division, Arminium, Pisauruni, Busta Gallorum, (Bastia,) Urbinum, Senogallia ; and, in the latter, Nuceria, Spoletium, Narnia, I nteramniu Ocri culum. 3. Picenum, a fruitful territory between Umbria and the river Avernus (Pescara,) containing Ancona, Fir mum, Asculum. 4. Sabinum, west of Picenum, between the Tiber, the Nar, and the Anio, containing Fidenx, Cures, Crustumerium. 5. Latium, along the coast of the Tuscan Sea, extending south from the Tiber to the promontory of Cirmum, anciently inhabited by the ./Equi, Volsci, Hernici, Rutuli, &c. and containing Roma, Ostia, Arclea, Tuxe1.1111m, PrRneste, Alba, Tibor, Antium, Anxur, Minturnx. 6. Campania, extending along the Tuscan shore, from Sinu essa to the river Silarus, and bounded an the east and north by Samnium, and containing Capua, Liternum, Baix, Pu teoli, Ncapolis, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Surrentum, Nola;, Casilinum, Venagrum. 7. Samnium, lying on both sides
of the Appenines, east from Campania, and bounded on the north by Latium, on the east by the Adriatic, and on the south by Apulia, contained Beneventum, Bovianum, Saticula, Caudium. 8. Apulia, called also Daunia, east of Samnium, and bounded by the Fronto on the north, the Adriatic on the cast, and Calabria on the south, contained Arpi, Uria, Luceria, Asculum, Canusium, Venusia, Feren turn. 9. Calabria, called also Messapia and Japygia, a peninsula running out into the Ionian Sea, contained Brun clusium, Ilydrunturn, Castrum Mincryx, Salentinum, Leu ca, Tarentum, Callipolis. 10. Lucania, between tte Tarentine Gulph and Tuscan Sea, contained Paestum, or Posido nia, Forum Popilii, Potentia,Anxia, Metapontum, Heraclea, Sybaris, Vella. II. Brntium, a peninsula south of Lucania, divided by the Appenines into two maritime tracts, called sometimes Calabi is Citra and Ultra, contained Pandosia, Scyllxum, Rhegium, Croton, Mctaurum, AIamertum, Pe tclia, Stc.
Through these ancient districts and towns, highways from the capital were formed at different periods of the Roman empire, of which the most remarkable were, Via Appia, constructed by Appius Clodius, the most ancient of the Roman roads, passing through Forum Appii, Fundi, NIin turnx, and Sinuessa to Capua, and thence through Cau dium, Beneventum, Canusium, and Barium, to Brundu sium ; Via Flaminia, leading through Etruria and Umbria to Arminium, passed by the towns of Ocriculum, Narnia, Fulginum, Forum Flaminii, Callis, Forum Sempronii, and Pesaurum; Via Emilia, the work of Emilius Lepidus, lead ing from Arminium, through Forum Popilii, Faventia, and Claterva to Bouonia, and thence through Mutina, Aleste, Petavium Altinum, and Concordia, to Aquileia ; Via Au relia, ascribed to Aurelius Cotta, extending along the coast of Etruria to Pisx, thence round the Gulph of Genoa to Nicaaa into Gaul ; Via Clodia, passing through the middle of Etruria to Lucca ; and Via Cassia, through the interior of Etruria to Clusium and Florentia.