[1542] The Licattii appear to have inhabited the country about the Lech, and the Clautinatii that about the Inn; the Vennones the Val Telline.
[1543] This disgusting brutality however is no more barbarous than the intention put by Homer into the mouth of Agamemnon, “the king of men,” which Scholiasts have in vain endeavoured to soften or excuse—
τῶν μήτις ὑπεκφύγοι αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον,
χεῖράς θ’ ἡμετέρας· μηδ’ ὅντινα γαστέρι μήτηρ
κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι, μηδ’ ὃς φύγοι· ἀλλ’ ἅμα πάντες
Ἰλίου ἐξαπολοίατ’, ἀκήδεστοι καὶ ἄφαντοι.
Iliad vi. 57-60.
[1544] This expedition of Tiberius took place in the eleventh year of the Christian era; Strabo therefore must have written his fourth book in the 44th year.
[1545] The Carnic, or Julian Alps, is intended.
[1546] Ἄταξ.