Book 4
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This is the principal city of the nation of the Segusiani who lie between the Rhone and the Doubs.Kramer concurs with Falconer and Gosselin in understanding this passage to have been originally between the Rhone and the Loire. The other nations who extend to the Rhine, are bounded in part by the Doubs, and in part by the Saone. These two rivers, as said before, descend from the Alps, and, falling into one stream, flow into the Rhone. There is likewise another river which has its sources in the Alps, and is named the Seine.σηκοάνος. It flows parallel with the Rhine, through a nation bearing the same name as itself,The Sequani. and so into the ocean. The Sequani are bounded on the east by the Rhine, and on the opposite side by the Saone. It is from them that the Romans procure the finest salted-pork. Between the Doubs and Saone dwells the nation of the Aedui, who possess the city of Cabyllinum,Châlons-sur-Saone. situated on the Saone and the fortress of Bibracte.Autun, according to Gosselin. Beurect, according to Ferrarius. The AeduiCaesar, Tacitus, and other writers, also speak of this relationship of the Aedui with the Romans. are said to be related to the Romans, and they were the first to enter into friendship and alliance with them. On the other side of the Saone dwell the Sequani, who have for long been at enmity with the Romans and Aedui, having frequently allied themselves with the Germans in their incursions into Italy. It was then that they proved their strength, for united to them the Germans were powerful, but when separated, weak. As for the Aedui, their alliance with the Romans naturally rendered them the enemies of the Sequani,Lit. As for the Aedui on these accounts indeed. but the enmity was increased by their contests concerning the river which divides them, each nation claiming the Saone exclusively for themselves, and likewise the tolls on vessels passing. However, at the present time, the whole of it is under the dominion of the Romans.
