Book 7
1.5
The territory of the RhaetiThe Rhaeti possessed the countries of the Grisons and the Tyrol, extending to the eastern shores of the Lake Constance. borders some portion of this lake, but the greater part of the shores belong to the HelvetiiThe Helvetii, or Swiss, possessed the southern borders of the Lake Constance. and VindeliciThe 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. [the Norici come next after the Vindelici in an easterly direction,]It is evident that some words have been omitted in this place. The words we have inserted are the conjecture of Cluverius and Groskurd. and the desert of the Boii.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. The nations as far as the Pannonians,The Pannonians occupied the districts of Hungary west of the Danube. but more especially the Helvetii and Vindelici, inhabit high table lands. The Rhaeti and the Norici,The Norici inhabited that part of Austria which lies between the Danube and the Alps. verging towards Italy, extend over the very summits of the Alps; the former confining with the Insubri,The Insubri occupied the Milanese. the latter the Carni,The Carni have left their name to Carniola. and the districts about Aquileia. There is likewise another great forest, named Gabreta, on this side the territory of the Suevi, while beyond them lies the Hercynian Wood, which also is in their possession.
CHAPTER II.
