Note 104
From Chapter 69 of the Decline & Fall

—Vallis te proxima misit,
Appenninigenae quâ prata virentia sylvae
Spoletana metunt armenta gregesque protervi.

Monaldeschi (tom. xii. Script. Ital. p. 533) gives the Ursini a French origin, which may be remotely true.

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