[2582] The Helvetii, or Swiss, possessed the southern borders of the Lake Constance.
[2583] The Vindelici occupied the country on the northern borders of the lake, with the regions of Swabia and Bavaria south of the Danube, and reaching to the Inn. Gossellin.
[2584] It is evident that some words have been omitted in this place. The words we have inserted are the conjecture of Cluverius and Groskurd.
[2585] As far as we can make out from Strabo and Pliny, book iii. cap. 27, the desert of the Boii stretched along the shores of the Danube from the river Inn to the mountains a little west of Vienna, which were the boundary between the Norici and the Pannonians. This strip of land is now called the Wiener-Wald, or Forest of Vienna. Doubtless it took its name of Desert of the Boii on account of its contiguity to the south of the country occupied by those people, and which still bears the name of Bohemia.
[2586] The Pannonians occupied the districts of Hungary west of the Danube.
[2587] The Norici inhabited that part of Austria which lies between the Danube and the Alps.
[2588] The Insubri occupied the Milanese.
[2589] The Carni have left their name to Carniola.
[2590] See also book ii. chap. 3, § 6. Festus relates that the Ambrones abandoned their country on account of this tide. The Ambrones were a tribe of the Helvetii, and more than once joined with the Cimbri.
[2591] The French translation has happily paraphrased, not translated, this passage as follows: “For although it is true that the ocean has tides of more or less height, still they occur periodically, and in an order constantly the same.”