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Before Britain lost her freedom, the country was irregularly divided between thirty tribes of barbarians, of whom the most considerable were the Belgæ in the West, the Brigantes in the North, the Silures in South Wales, and the Iceni in Norfolk and Suffolk. As far as we can either trace or credit the resemblance of manners and language, Spain, Gaul, and Britain were peopled by the same hardy race of savages. Before they yielded to the Roman arms, they often disputed the field, and often renewed the contest. After their submission, they constituted the western division of the European provinces, which extended from the columns of Hercules to the wall of Antoninus, and from the mouth of the Tagus to the sources of the Rhine and Danube.","notes":[{"id":"73","text":"Whittaker’s History of Manchester, vol. i. c. 3.] Before the Roman conquest, the country which is now called Lombardy, was not considered as a part of Italy. It had been occupied by a powerful colony of Gauls, who, settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their arms and diffused their name from the Alps to the Apennine.","voice":"Gibbon","at":499}],"authorities":[],"alt":85,"wps":28}},{"role":"selected","paragraph":29,"humanUrl":"https://gloss.page/read.html?t=gibbon-1#p29","chapter":{"type":"chapter","label":"Chapter I","short":"Chapter I","head":"Chapter I · The Extent Of The Empire In The Age Of The Antonines"},"unit":{"i":28,"v":0,"kind":"p","text":"The Ligurians dwelt on the rocky coast which now forms the republic of Genoa. Venice was yet unborn; but the territories of that state, which lie to the east of the Adige, were inhabited by the Venetians. The middle part of the peninsula, that now composes the duchy of Tuscany and the ecclesiastical state, was the ancient seat of the Etruscans and Umbrians; to the former of whom Italy was indebted for the first rudiments of civilized life. The Tyber rolled at the foot of the seven hills of Rome, and the country of the Sabines, the Latins, and the Volsci, from that river to the frontiers of Naples, was the theatre of her infant victories. On that celebrated ground the first consuls deserved triumphs, their successors adorned villas, and _their_ posterity have erected convents. Capua and Campania possessed the immediate territory of Naples; the rest of the kingdom was inhabited by many warlike nations, the Marsi, the Samnites, the Apulians, and the Lucanians; and the sea-coasts had been covered by the flourishing colonies of the Greeks. We may remark, that when Augustus divided Italy into eleven regions, the little province of Istria was annexed to that seat of Roman sovereignty.","notes":[{"id":"74","text":"The Italian Veneti, though often confounded with the Gauls, were more probably of Illyrian origin. See M. Freret, Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions, tom. xviii. * Note: Or Liburnian, according to Niebuhr. Vol. i. p. 172.—M.","voice":"Gibbon","at":204},{"id":"75","text":"See Maffei Verona illustrata, l. i. * Note: Add Niebuhr, vol. i., and Otfried Müller, _die Etrusker_, which contains much that is known, and much that is conjectured, about this remarkable people. Also Micali, Storia degli antichi popoli Italiani. Florence, 1832—M.","voice":"Gibbon","at":443},{"id":"76","text":"The first contrast was observed by the ancients. See Florus, i. 11. The second must strike every modern traveller.","voice":"Gibbon","at":786},{"id":"77","text":"Pliny (Hist. 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The provinces of the Danube soon acquired the general appellation of Illyricum, or the Illyrian frontier, and were esteemed the most warlike of the empire; but they deserve to be more particularly considered under the names of Rhætia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Dacia, Mæsia, Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece.","notes":[{"id":"78","text":"Tournefort, Voyages en Grece et Asie Mineure, lettre xviii.","voice":"Gibbon","at":437},{"id":"79","text":"The name of Illyricum originally belonged to the sea-coast of the Adriatic, and was gradually extended by the Romans from the Alps to the Euxine Sea. See Severini Pannonia, l. i. c. 3.","voice":"Gibbon","at":543}],"authorities":[],"alt":51,"wps":40}}]}