TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES

an important family of Indo-Chinese languages spoken in India; comprises series of dialects spoken from Tibet to Burma, and from Baltis tan to Chin. provinces, Szechuan and Yunnan, by c. 20 million people, all Mongol i ans. Kuki-Chin, Burmese. Rom. poet. His first book of elegies was inspired by Plancia, a married woman whom he calls Delia; the second by ‘Nemesis,’ a courtesan. The authenticity of most of the third and the whole of the fourth book is extremely doubtful. (modern Tivoli), ancient town, on falls of Anio, Latium, Italy; favorite residence of many distinguished Romans. 35’ E.), ancient highway, Italy, leading from Rome to Tibur. Orton (1829-98), a butcher in Australia, laid claim to the Tichborne estates on the death of Sir Alfred Tichborne, 1866, and came forward as Sir Alfred’s bro., supposed to have been lost at sea; was acknowledged by the dowager Lady Tichborne; nonsuited on his claim which lasted 103 days, 1871-72. Orton was then tried for perjury and forgery, convicted, and sentenced to fourteen S.E. canton, Switzerland; area, 1088 sq. miles; surface is mountainous in N., sloping to plain of Lombardy in S.; watered by Ticino and its affluents; contains part of Lakes Maggiore and Lugano; capital, Bell in zona; produces olives, grapes, and other fruits, cereals, tobacco, silk, wine; language, Italian; chief religion, R.C.; constituted a canton of Swi Confederation, 1803. Pop. 1921, 152,256. (2) Te in (45° 14’ N., land and Italy; rises in Mt. St. Gothard; joins the Po, near Pavia. (modern Pavia), ancient city, on Ticinum, Gallia Trans pad an a; said by Pliny to have been founded by the Leevi and Marici; an important city under the Romans; in 572 taken by the Lombards, who made it their capital.