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294 GODDESSES.
says : quam nos historiam in pervetusto
antiquissimis script-am reperimus ;
codice membran. literis
that would be the sixth MS.
known hitherto, and copies must have been pretty numerous in the
11-1 2th centuries. The one that Goldast had before him may
probably have been the oldest.
Either one or the other of them, both Otto von Freisingen and
the author (or continuator) of the Auersberg chronicle seem to have
had before them. The former tries to connect the story with
Quintilius Varus (instead of Verres), and after relating his over
throw, adds (chron. 3, 4) : Tradunt Augustenses hanc caedem ibi
factam, ostenduntque in argumentum collem ex ossibus mortuorum
compactum, quern in vulgari pcrleicli (Mone, anz. 1, 256), eo quod
legio ibi perierit, usque hodie vocant, vicumque ex nomine Vari ap-
pellatum monstrant . The Auersberg chronicler s account, though
he almost verbally adopts the older fragment, I hold it needful to
insert here, because the marginal glosses are curiously interwoven
with the text, and referred to discovered inscriptions on stone \ l
De Augusta Vindelicorum vel Ehetiae. sicut ex scriptis veterum
colligitur haec civitas tria nomina accepit. Germanorum quippe
gentes primum considentes in partibus Ehetiae, quae nunc est pars
Sueviae, noil longe ab alpibus in planitie, loco tamen munito propter
concursum duorum rapidorum fluminum, hanc urbern construxerunt,
et non muris sed fossatis earn firmaverunt, et ex nomine deae Zizae,
quam religiosissime colebant, Zizerim earn nominabant. hujus
quoque deae templum ex lignis barbarico ritu constructum, etiam
postquam Eomani earn incolere coeperunt, inviolatum permansit.
at vetustate collapsum nomen colli servavit, in quo postmodum in
lapide exsculpti hi versus sunt reperti :
quern male polluerat cultura nefaria dudum
gallus monticulum hunc tibi Ziza tulit.
unde usque in praesens ab incolis idem monticulus Zizcriberg no-
minatur. apud hanc urbem Eomani deleti sunt magna caede.
nam Titus Annius praetor ad arcendas barbarorum excursiones
cum exercitu in kal. Augusti earn circundedit, ipseque ad meri-
dianam oppidi partem, quae sola patebat, castra sua cum legione
Martia operosissime communivit. ad occidentem vero ultra
fluvium, ubi Suevis aut barbaris aditus patebat, Avar Eogudis regis
i Chron. Conradi ursperg. Argent. 1532, p. 308. eel. 1609, p. 225.