[650] Beatus Rhenanus. Rerum Germanic. l. 3.
[651] It is called by the Swiss, Le Grand Brenner: by the other Germans, Der gross Verner.
Mount Cænis, as we term it, is properly Mount Chen-Is, Mons Dei Vulcani. It is called by the people of the country Monte Canise; and is part of the Alpes Cottiæ. Cluver. Ital. vol. 1. l. 1. c. 32. p. 337. Mons Geneber. Jovij.
[652] See Marcellinus. l. 15. c. 10. p. 77. and the authors quoted by Cluverius. Italia Antiqua above.
They are styled Αλπεις Σκουτιαι by Procopius: Rerum Goth. l. 2.
Marcellinus thinks, that a king Cottius gave name to these Alps in the time of Augustus, but Cottius was the national title of the king; as Cottia was of the nation: far prior to the time of Augustus.
[653] Pliny. l. 3. c. 20. Cottianæ civitates duodecim.
[654] Scholia upon Apollonius. l. 2. v. 677.
[655] Τουτων δε εστι και ἡ του Ιδεοννου γη, και ἡ του Κοττιου. Strabo. l. 4. p. 312
[656] Tacitus de Moribus Germanorum.