in Ancient Geography, a river of the Cisalpine Gaul, which, rising in the Rhetian Alps, in Mount Brenna, in the county of Tirol, runs southwards and washes Tridentum and Verona, which left it divides; and after passing this, bends its course eastwards, in a parallel direction with the Po, and falls into the Adriatic between Fosca Claudia and Philistina: it separated the Euganei, an ancient people from the Veneti. The people dwelling on it are called Athestini (Pliny). Its modern name is the Adige.