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118 ON THE AUTHENTICITY
2. With regard to the Semnones, I must
remark, that Polybius no where mentions a
tribe of that name, amongst the invaders of
Italy.* Tacitus, indeed, makes mention of
the Semnones, as a tribe of the Suevi;f but
no author, that I know of, states them to
have invaded Italy. The invaders of Italy,
of whom Polybius speaks, were the Senones,
a people of Celtic Gaul, whose capital was
Agendicum, now Sens; and who, after their
invasion of Italy, settled in the fertile plains
of Lom hardy, and gave the name of Seno-
gallia to that district.;]; But the matter is
placed beyond all question by Livy, who
enumerates the Senones amongst those tribes
of Celtic Gaul, (as he expressly states them,)
who invaded Italy, in the reign of Tarquini-
* The name does not occur, at least, in the editioa
before me, Aj)istelodQ,mi ap. Janssonium, 1 670.
t Germ. c. 39.
X Cluverii Introd. Qeog, pp. 68. 180. 184.