[1462] The Arverni have given their name to Auvergne, and the Carnutes to Chartrain.
[1463] Strabo here copies Cæsar exactly, who, speaking of his second passage into Britain, (lib. v. c. 8,) says: “Ad solis occasum naves solvit ... accessum est ad Britanniam omnibus navibus meridiano fere tempore.”
[1464] The capital of these people is Trèves.
[1465] Viz. to the western bank of the river.
[1466] The Nervii occupied Hainault, and the Comté de Namur.
[1467] The Sicambri occupied the countries of Berg, Mark, and Arensberg. They afterwards formed part of the people included under the name of Franci or Franks.
[1468] Bavai, to the south of Valenciennes, was the capital of the Nervii; Duricortora, now Rheims, of the Remi; Arras of the Atrebates, and Tongres of the Eburones.
[1469] Térouane was the principal city of the Morini, Beauvais of the Bellovaci, Amiens of the Ambiani, Soissons of the Suessiones, and Lilebonne of the Caleti.
[1470] Cæsar (lib. vi. c. 29) describes the forest of Ardennes as 500 miles in extent.
[1471] Ardennes.