The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . isputably of veryearly date, and may rank among the most ancient structuresextant in Italy. While those of Cosa and Saturnia, in the neatlyjoined polygonal style, have been referred to later, even to lloman,times, no one has ever ventured to call in question the venerableantiquity of Rusella3; which therefore needs no confirmationfrom historical sources. The limited extent of the city, only twomiles in circumference, does not seem to entitle it to rank amongthe Twelve chief cities of Etruria. Yet this honour is generallyaccorded to it; principally on the
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . isputably of veryearly date, and may rank among the most ancient structuresextant in Italy. While those of Cosa and Saturnia, in the neatlyjoined polygonal style, have been referred to later, even to lloman,times, no one has ever ventured to call in question the venerableantiquity of Rusella3; which therefore needs no confirmationfrom historical sources. The limited extent of the city, only twomiles in circumference, does not seem to entitle it to rank amongthe Twelve chief cities of Etruria. Yet this honour is generallyaccorded to it; principally on the ground of a passage in Dionysius,where it is cited in connection with Clusium, Arretium, Volateme, 9 Bull. Inst. 1851, p. 3, 4. Noel dcs found in the lake of Monte Falterona haveVergers, Etrurie, I. p. 59, All the bronzes the same peculiar brownishp<(tina. chap, xlvii.] BEONZES—HISTOEIOAL NOTICES, 2:53 and Vetulonia, all cities of the Confederation, as taking part inthe war against Tarquinius Priscus, independently of the rest of. Etruria; which seems to imply that it was at that time a city offirst-rate This is the earliest mention made ofRusellae in history. We next hear of it in the year 453 of Rome,in the dictatorship of M. Valerius Maximus, who marched his 1 Dion. Hal. IIT. c. 51. Yet Livy (X. and Arretium, as urbes, Etruria capita—/) speaks of it as a town, opjndum, and, thus placing Rusellae in an inferior category,in the next sentence, of Volsinii, Perusia, 234 BUSELLJE. [chap, xlvii. army into the territory of Rusellre, and there broke the mightof the Etruscans, and forced them to sue for And againin the year 460, the consul, Postumius Megellus, entered theterritory of Ptusellse, and not only laid it waste, but attackedand stormed the city itself, capturing more than 2000 men, andslaying almost as many around the When we next findit mentioned in history, it is among the cities of Etruria, whichfurnished supplies to Scipio in the Seco
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