[1392] The Doubs rises in the Jura, not in the Alps. Ptolemy falls into the same mistake as Strabo.
[1393] We have here followed the proposed correction of Ziegler.
[1394] Nîmes.
[1395] This name is written diversely, Tectosages, Tectosagæ, and Tectosagi. It appears to be composed of the two Latin words, “tectus,” covered, and “sagum,” a species of cassock.
[1396] Viz. between Lodève and Toulouse; we must remember that Strabo supposed the chain of the Cevennes to run west and east.
[1397] Angora.
[1398] These three nations inhabited Galatia, of which Ancyra was the capital.
[1399] 279 years before the Christian era.
[1400] Justin tells us that the Tectosages on returning to Toulouse from the expedition, were attacked with a pestilential malady, from which they could find no relief until they complied with the advice of their augurs, and cast the ill-gotten wealth into a lake. Justin, lib. xxxii. c. 3.
[1401] The Atlantic and Mediterranean.