Excerpt from The Letters of Pliny the Younger, Vol. 2: With Observations on Each Letter

We learn-from this epi¿le, that tyro was the intimate {friend of pliny. F But, in what part of Picmum the houfe nf Time. Ms fituated, is not mentioned. Picenum is a in e (1% of Italy, beyond the lpmnirm. It is thus de fcrtbetl by.strabo. Regio Italie, tram lpmninum, ab ip/is M6! (jam: ad mar: ldrlaticum extenfa, inter (efvin (t Wiwfium'o: {'a region of Italy beyondthe lpeminer, mountains to the Adriatic fea, be tween the rivers and lag/iran: es eaftward of Umbrz'a. Pliny, the hiftorian, calls it, quinta regio Ita lic The fifth region of Italy. He tells us, that the Sao Jim: were the firit inhabitants of this country, which be came fo populous, that no lefs than three hundred and fixty thoufand of the Picenm fubmitted themfelves, and entered into an alliance with the Romans. Thus far of their hifiory may be depended upon: the derivation of their name is fa hulous. Pimzum is {aid to be {0 called from pica, a magpye, which bird went before the Sabina, and was their guide to con duét them from Sabinia, and to fettle them in Pianum. Th'e profperity and the acquifitions of the Roman: were rapid, and extenfive, that it is by no means furprifing to find mira cles, and various fupernatural caufes, alligned to the feveral events, that, in realit Were the fprings, and fources, of the encreafmg power of am.

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