# Naturalis Historia 3.124

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 3. Latin.

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124] Vercellae Libiciorum ex Salluis ortae, Novaria ex Vertamocoris, Vocontiorum hodieque pago, non, ut Cato existimat, Ligurum, ex quibus Laevi et Marici condidere Ticinum non procul a Pado, sicut Boi Transalpibus profecti Laudem Pompeiam, Insubres Mediolanum. Oromobiorum stirpis esse Comum atque Bergomum et Licini Forum aliquotque circa populos auctor est Cato, sed originiem gentis ignorare se fatetur, quam docet Cornelius Alexander ortam a Graecia interpretatione etiam nominis vitam in montibus degentium.

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