SriHA,-  a  city  of  Gallia  Cisalpiaa,  noar  tbe  enlrsBBe
of  tbe  inoet  soutbem  branch  of  the  Padua,  salted  from
it  Osttum  Spinetieum.  If  we  are  to  believe  Diooyslos
of  HaticamsMus,  who  decivee  bis  -  information  appa-
rently from  Hellanicus  of  Lcsboe  (Ani.  Rom.,  I,  18),
Spina  was  founded  liy  a  nomwoo*  band  of  Foltsgi,
who  arrived  on  Uiia  eeasl  fion  Epina  laof  befon  tba
Tiejan  war.  The  une  wrilar  giMa  on  to  state  thai,
im  praeoaa  of  time,  tbia  cotony  hawaMt  vary  loitrb^
faf  .  and  held  for  mioy  yearn  Out  iammiian  m  tbo


Item  .the  IVatta  of  wfakdi  it  waa  anaUad  to  pnaeat  to
tbe  teiuilv  iri*  Delphi  tithe  offotiiigs  snore  costly  thtt
tboea  of  any  other  city.  Afterward,  however,  being
ittadked  by  an  ovonvbelmilig  force  of  the  eonwiradng
batbariana,  ifae  Palasgi  wMo  forced  to  quit  tbair  settle
Bieol,  and  finally  to  abandon  Italy.  It  appaara  that  no
dcmhf  can  be  entertained  of  the  sxiaienee  of  a  (ireek
city  of  tbie  name,  near. one  of  ike  mouths  of  tbe  Po.
since  it  is  noticed  in  tbe  Psri^us  of  Soylax  (p.  18),  and
by  tbe  geographers  Eudoxus  and  Aitemidoiiie,  as  cited
^  Stephanae  of  ByiaotiBiB  (».  o.  X*im).  Stnbo
also  apeeka  of  it  aa  banag  baeo  one*  a  <*l*bnlod  eiqr.
