.about the passage o 〔theG ,uls into Italy we lave ，receivedthefo11 reCelveQtnelol工owinrecex}rea the togac aCcount. "whilst Tarquinius Priscus eras kin- of Rome,你e supreme power amongst the Celts, who formed .a third part of the、 was in the hands of the r八声v八，，众，分一&, Bituriges;they used to furnish the for ，the whale Celtic race. Ambigatus was king at that time, .a man eminent for his own personal courage and prosperity as much as for those of. his dominions. During his sway the harvests were so abundant and the 夕opulation increased so rapidly in Gaul that the governmeat such vast numbers seemed almost impossible. He was now old man, and anxious to relieve his realm from the burden of over-population. With this view he signified his intention of sending his sister's sons Bellovesus and Segovesus, both enterprising young men, to settle in whatever locality the gods should by augury assign to them. They were to invite as many as wished to accomPany them, sufficient toprevent an ration from repellinz their am)roach. When the auspices were taxen, the xiercyn.lan forest was assxanea to z5earovesus:to 乃euovesus the zoas nave the tar Weasanter wav into ltaiv. 且e invitea the surD坦s poDuiation ofi six tribes---the万ituriffes。 tile八verni, the z)enones, the ltaui, the八mbarrx, the七arnutes, and the Aulerci. Starting with an enormous force of horse and foot, he came to the Tricastini. Beyond stretched the barrier of the .Alps, and I am not at all surprised that they appeared insurmountable, for they had never yet been surmounted by any route, as far at least as unbroken memory reaches, unless you choose to believe the fables about Hercules. Whilst the mountain hei沙is kept the (mauls fenced in as it were there, and they were looking everywhere to see by what path they could cross the peaks which reached to heaven and so enter a new world, they were also prevented from advancing by a sense of religious obligation, for news came that some strangers in quest of territory were 黯attacked by the Salyi. These werefrom Phocaea. The C auls, looking u黯siliansthis as票思 of their own fortunes, went to their assistance and enabled them to fortify the spot where they had first landed, without anyinterference from the Salyi. .After crossing the Alps by the passes of the Taurini and the valley of the Douro, they defeatthe Tuscans in battle not far from the Ticinus, and when. th雾 learnt that the country in which they had settled belonged tothe Insubres, a name also borne by a canton of the I-Iaedui,they accepted the omen of the place and built a city which theycalled Mediolanum.xxxv.