1 Strabo, in a subsequent passage, states that the distance from the Danube to the city Trieste, at the head of the Adriatic, is about 1200 stadia.
2 The ancient Tyras.
3 The Borysthenes.
4 The Bastarnæ were a people occupying portions of the modern Moldavia, Podolia, and the Ukraine.
5 The Tyregetæ, or the Getæ of the river Tyras, were a people dwelling on the Dniester, to the south of the Bastarnæ.
6 The ancient geographers supposed that the Northern Ocean extended to the 56° of north latitude. Their notions of the existence of the Baltic were vague. They therefore confounded it with the Northern Ocean, thus making the continent of Europe to extend only to the 56° of north latitude.
7 See book iv. chap. iv. § 2, pp. 291, 292.
8 Strabo's words are, γνήσιοι γάοͅ οὶ γεοͅμανοὶ κατὰ τὴν ῾πωμαίων διάλεκτον. It is possible he may be endeavouring to explain that the yep in Germani is equivalent to the Latin verus, ‘true,’ the wahr of modern German, and that Germani signifies the true men of the country, the undoubted autochthones of Galatia or Gaul.
9 The Marsi were a people dwelling on the banks of the Ems, near Munster.
10 The Sicambri were located near the Menapii. See above, p. 289.
11 The Albis.
12 Amasias.
13 The name of this tribe is written variously by different authors. They are supposed to have occupied the lands between the Rhine, the Ems, and the Lippe, but their boundaries were very uncertain, on account of their continual wars.
14 This refers to the chain of mountains which, running from the north of Switzerland, traverses Wurtemberg, Franconia, Bohemia, Moravia, and joins Mount Krapak.
15 The Hercynian Wood, or Black Forest, was either one or a succession of continuous forests, extending from the banks of the Rhine to the confines of Persia and Bactriana.
16 The Suevi occupied a considerable portion of Germany, to the north and east of Bohemia.
17 Coldui manuscripts. Kramer agrees with Cluverius in this instance, and we have followed Kramer's text.
18 The Lugii of Tacitus.
19 Zeus thinks these were the Burri of Dio Cassius, lxviii. 8. See Zeus, Die Deutschen, &c., p. 126.
20 Kramer has γούτωνας, although the MSS. have βούτωνας. He is led to this emendation by Cluverius and others. Cluv. Germ. Antiq. lib. iii. c. 34, page 625.
21 The Gambrivii of Tacitus, Germ. cap. 2.
22 Cluverius considers these were the Chamavi.
23 We have followed Kramer's text. MSS. read Bucteri.
24 For Caulci, Campsiani, Cluverius would read Cathulci, Campsani. A little further on Strabo calls the Campsiani Ampsani.
25 Amasias.
26 Visurgis.
27 Lupias.
28 Salas.
29 Borcum. Pliny calls this island Burchana, and adds, that the Romans gave it the name of Fabaria, on account of the beans (in Latin Faba) which grow there.
30 Segimundus in Tacitus, Annal. lib. i. cap. 57.
31 Ægimerus in Tacitus, Annal. lib. i. cap. 71.
32 Acrumerus, according to the correction of Cluverius. He is Actumerus in Tacitus, Annal. lib. xi. 16, 17.
33 MSS. Batti, which Vossius reckons were the Batavi.
34 Cluverius considers these were the Marsi of Tacitus, Annal. lib. ii. cap. 25.
35 Called Tubantes by the Roman writers.
36 Schwartz Wald, or Black Forest.
37 The Lake Constance.
38 Strabo could hardly have intended 300, since the diameter of the lake is given at 200. Velser conjectures that 500 or 600 would be the proper reading. Its exact circumference is about 550 stadia.
39 Gossellin considers that by Keltica we are to understand Cisalpine Gaul, and the neighbourhood of Milan and Mantua.
40 Gossellin says that the sources of the Danube are about 14 leagues distant from the western extremity of the Lake Constance.
41 The Rhæti possessed the countries of the Grisons and the Tyrol, extending to the eastern shores of the Lake Constance.
42 The Helvetii, or Swiss, possessed the southern borders of the Lake Constance.
43 The Vindelici occupied the country on the northern borders of the lake, with the regions of Swabia and Bavaria south of the Danube, and reaching to the Inn. Gossellin.
44 It is evident that some words have been omitted in this place. The words we have inserted are the conjecture of Cluverius and Groskurd.
45 As far as we can make out from Strabo and Pliny, book iii. cap. 27, the desert of the Boii stretched along the shores of the Danube from the river Inn to the mountains a little west of Vienna, which were the boundary between the Norici and the Pannonians. This strip of land is now called the Wiener-Wald, or Forest of Vienna. Doubtless it took its name of Desert of the Boii on account of its contiguity to the south of the country occupied by those people, and which still bears the name of Bohemia.
46 The Pannonians occupied the districts of Hungary west of the Danube.
47 The Norici inhabited that part of Austria which lies between the Danube and the Alps.
48 The Insubri occupied the Milanese.
49 The Carni have left their name to Carniola.
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