The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . ich covers it hasbeen broken away. fi It has been already stated that Cam-panari made slight excavations in thisneighbourhood. Vol. I. p. 498. 7 Liv. XXXIX. 55. It will be observedthat Livy does not speak of a town of thisname, merely of an ager—Saturnia co-lonia civium Romanorum in agrum Cale-tranum est deducta ; and from this, andmore clearly from Plinys notice (III. 8)— oppidorum veterum nomina retinent agriCrustuminus, Caletranus —we may inferthat the Etruscan town had ceased to exist before Imperial times—a fact which mayassist researches for its sit
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . ich covers it hasbeen broken away. fi It has been already stated that Cam-panari made slight excavations in thisneighbourhood. Vol. I. p. 498. 7 Liv. XXXIX. 55. It will be observedthat Livy does not speak of a town of thisname, merely of an ager—Saturnia co-lonia civium Romanorum in agrum Cale-tranum est deducta ; and from this, andmore clearly from Plinys notice (III. 8)— oppidorum veterum nomina retinent agriCrustuminus, Caletranus —we may inferthat the Etruscan town had ceased to exist before Imperial times—a fact which mayassist researches for its site. It has beenalready observed (ut supra, p. 268), thatRepetti suggests for Caletra a site in theneighbourhood of Magliano, and some wouldidentify it with the newly found city be-tween that village and the sea ; but thereis no reason to suppose from the only twonotices we have of Caletra, that it wasever of such importance as that site wouldindicate, which corresponds with far moreprobability to the ancient Yetulonia, VOL. KM^LOFKN *tc-?: /•Vom « SMc/t !>!/ E. W. Cooke, KADICOFANI. CHAPTER LIILoniusL—eLusiuM. The City. I pray you let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials and the things of fame, That do renown this city.—Shakspearb. luusfeum ante omnk—Yirgil. I left my reader at the close of the last chapter on the banksof the Fiora, on the road from Saturnia to Pitigliano. I wouldnow convey him to Chin si, which commands the entrance to thewide valley through which sweet Clanis wandersThrough corn, and vines, and flowers. The road from Pitigliano is hardly carriageable throughout. Itruns through Sorano, and meets the high road from Rome toFlorence either at Acquapendonte, or at Ponte Centino, crossing-it at the latter place and continuing through San Casciano deiBagni, skirting the base of the wild mountain of Eadicofani, toCetona and Chiusi. The Baths of San Casciano are proved by CHAP, mi.] POSITION OF CHIUSI. 291 remains to be of ancient
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