CHAPTER V
THE CITIES OF THE LAGOONS
"The Ligurians—subdued finally by Augustus ... had constituted the first nationality ... of Provence. Perhaps Asiatic in origin, they extended, with the Celts and the Iberians ... from the Pyrenees to the Alps, along the littoral ... at the epoch assigned for the founding of Marseilles, 590 or 600 b.c.
"The Ligurians extended from the seventh or eighth century b.c. from the Pyrenees to the Arno along the Mediterranean shores.
"The Ibero-Ligurians have left memories of three tribes, the Bebrykes, the Sordes, and the Elesykes....
"In spite of the successive influences of the Phœnicians and the Greeks, in spite of the mixture of the neighbouring Celts and the Roman colonists, the type of the Ligurians has perpetuated itself across the centuries."
Paul Mariéton.
CHAPTER V
THE CITIES OF THE LAGOONS