[ X] THe inhabitants of Liguria, were in old time held to be great Pirats at Sea, by which [ D] meanes they went and sought for all things which they needed: and moreouer, they were wont to exchange the tymber of their great trees, for oyle, wine, and other necessa∣ries, for most part of the time they liued of milke and sheepes flesh, and of a drinke made with water and barley. Some Authors haue held, that this nation was discended from certaine Grecians; at the least, it is the opinion of Strabo: but Thucidides thinkes, that they are come from the Sicilians. Flores makes mention of the Ligurians, who hid themselues in holes and caues of the mountaines, as the Ossubes, Deciat and Buriat, say the like. This countrie hath in old time bred many great Captaines.
As for the Corsicans, Strabo saith, That whenas the Roman Captaines made any roads into this Island, bringing great numbers of slaues to Rome, they did admire these Barba∣rians, [ E] who were altogether sauage, and were more like beasts than men: for either they did seeke and hunt after death by all possible means, or else they tyred their maisters with their impatience and little wit, who were grieued to haue so imployed their money, al∣though they cost verie little.