The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . Ramtha is an Etruscan female name. Of one inscription I could only trace the letters . thra 3 . and ofanother of two lines, only LARTHA was distinguishable. In the Poggio Stanziale, near the house-tombs I read this fragment, trias . r . On an adjoining monument is the simple word cal,which formed the entire inscription. In the same line of cliff is this epigraph— CETC EVEL . NES. The letters,however, are by no means distinct. If, as Mr. Ainsley reads it, there be nostop before the last syllable, we have CEVELNES, which betrays a strongaffinity to the CVel
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . Ramtha is an Etruscan female name. Of one inscription I could only trace the letters . thra 3 . and ofanother of two lines, only LARTHA was distinguishable. In the Poggio Stanziale, near the house-tombs I read this fragment, trias . r . On an adjoining monument is the simple word cal,which formed the entire inscription. In the same line of cliff is this epigraph— CETC EVEL . NES. The letters,however, are by no means distinct. If, as Mr. Ainsley reads it, there be nostop before the last syllable, we have CEVELNES, which betrays a strongaffinity to the CVelnes or Cvenles, mentioned above, and strengthens theprobability of the great Cilnian gens having been located at Suana, as well asat Arretium. 2 According toConestabile this should bephrac. He gives an inscription on atomb in the Sopraripa which escaped myobservation—eca suthi larthal rumpu (or pumpu) CILISAL, and another on the Felceto, near the GrrottaPola— avle petrus celus, (op. cit. pp. 17, 18). VOL. II. Met res \—l. VOLSINII AND BOLSENA. CHAPTER XXXV. BOLSENA— VOLSINII. ? positis nemorosa inter juga Volsiniis.—Juvenal. Vedeva Troja in cenere e n caverne : 0 Ilion, come te basso e vileMostrava 1 segno che li si discerne !—Dante. From Pitigliano and its interesting neighbourhood I proceededto Bolsena, by way of Ornano, a wretched village seven or eightmiles from Sorano. Hence a road runs to Acquapendente, on the highway fromFlorence to Home. This has been erroneously supposed to bethe Acula of Ptolemy, and the colony of the Aquenses mentionedby Pliny1—an opinion founded merely on the similarity of its 1 Ptolem. (Jeog. p. 72, ed. liert. ; II. ill. 8—Abacuses, cognominc Tan-rini. Dempster (do Etrnria Regali, 342) held this opinion. But Cluver(It;il. Ant. II. p. 570) shows that the Acula of Ptolemy was no other than the Ad Aqui-leia of the Peutingerian Table, the firststage from Florentia on the road to Clu-sium. And the Aqiue Tauri of Pliny wer
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