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_ (Tuscia) and in Italian _Tosana_, the principal place; _Rhealta_ (Rhetia alta); _Rheambs_ (Rhetia ampla); _Rhazunz_ (Rhetia ima); and above twelve other castles, the remains of which are now to be seen in the valley _Tomiliasca_.] [Footnote K: In some communities there are fourteen jurors besides the Landamman.] [Footnote L: Serv. in AEneid. lib. viii. 65. lib. x. 202. Sprech. Pall. Rhaet p. 9. Siml. Rep. Helv. p. 281. ed. 1735.] [Footnote M: Liv. lib. v. c. 33.] [Footnote N: Sprech. p. 214. Mer. l. c.] [Footnote O: _En Code Ino_, perhaps the vulgar Roman phrase expressing _In Capite Oeni_. There are other etymologies, but all equally uncertain.] [Footnote P: Sprech. p. 10.] [Footnote Q: _Lavin_ (Lavinium), _Sus_ (Susa), _Zernetz_ (Cerneto), _Ardetz_ (Ardea), &c.] [Footnote R: Sprech. p. 10.] [Footnote S: A parallel instance of the formation of a language by Roman colonies is the idiom of Moldavia; which, according to Prince Cantemir's account of that country, has still many traces of its Latin origin, and which, though engrafted upon the Dacian, and since upon the Sclavonian dialects of the Celtic, may still be considered as a sister language to that I am, here treating of.] [Footnote T: Videre Rhaeti bella _sub_ Alpibus Drusum gerentem et Vindelici. HOR. lib. 4. Od. iv. ------------- immanesque Rhaetos Auspiciis _repulit_ secundis. Ibid. Od. xiv. Fundat ab extremo flavos aquilone Suevos Albis, et _indomitum Rheni Caput_. Luc. lib. ii. 52. ------------- Rhenumque minacem _Cornibus infractis_. CLAUD. Laud. Stilich. lib. i. 220.] [Footnote U: Horten. in Lucan, p. 163. edit. 1578. fol.] [Footnote V: Sprech. p. 18. &c.] [Footnote W: Strabo, lib. IV, sub. fin. Cluver. Ital. vet. lib. I. c. 16.] [Footnote X: _Julius Mons_, Scheuchzer Iter. Alp. p. 114.] [Footnote Y: Rhaetica nunc praebent Thraciaque arma metum. OVID. Trist. lib. ii. 226. Devota morti pectora liberae. HOR. 4. lib. Od. xiv.] [Footnote Z: Sprech. p. 52-55.] [Footnote AA: Sprech. p. 58.] [Footnote AB: This privilege has at times been waved; but never without some plausible pretence, and a formal rescript acknowledging the exclusive right.] [Footnote AC: The League _Cadea_, or of the _House of God_, so called from the cathedral of the bishopric of Coire, which is situated in its capital.] [Footnote AD: Canitie griseoque amictu vene
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