. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . (X) bronze objects, ulensiLs, arms and Thesebronzes were then precious and very expensive objects, spread through Italy and intotlie Transalpine countries l)v a commerce which was at once timorous and daring ( of .Inne |s77). Count Oozzadini places these bronzes as far back as the tenthcentury ^ • Ta:dio annu;u ambiliouis regeni ereavere (, v. i.) THE ETRUSCANS. Ix^ XXI of that sacerdotal aristocracy -vvliicli had united religion, agriculture,and the state by i
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . (X) bronze objects, ulensiLs, arms and Thesebronzes were then precious and very expensive objects, spread through Italy and intotlie Transalpine countries l)v a commerce which was at once timorous and daring ( of .Inne |s77). Count Oozzadini places these bronzes as far back as the tenthcentury ^ • Ta:dio annu;u ambiliouis regeni ereavere (, v. i.) THE ETRUSCANS. Ix^ XXI of that sacerdotal aristocracy -vvliicli had united religion, agriculture,and the state by indissoluble bonds. The nymph Bvgois hadrevealed to them the secrets of the augm-s art, and the dwarfTages the precepts of human Avisdom with the science of the day when a peasant was driving his plough in tlie fields ofTarquinii, a hideous dwarf, witli the face of a child under his Mliitehair, Tages, came out of a furrow. All Etruria flocked thither; thedwarf spoke for a long time ; they collected his words, and thebooks of Tages, the basis of Etruscan discipline,^ were for Etruria. Jewels found at Bologna (see note ou last page.) wliat the laws of jrauu had liccn for India and the P(>ntateueli forthe Hebrews. Cic. (li> Dir., ii. -2?,. Ixxii INTRODUCTION. The cominon pc^oplo, brouglit up by its superstitious fears torespect the great, and to submit to tlie huvs which they haddictated, did not dispute their douiinioii, and tliis docik^ obedience^rendering violence superfluous, the aristocracy and tlie peojjle were notseparated by that implacable hatred which rends states the subjects of Aenice, still so faithful, even in the last century,to the nobility of the Golden Book, the people fought for themaintenance of a social order wherein it held only the last when tlie fortune of Etruria fell, the authority of the Lucumonswas humbled. At Yeii, at the commencement of the ten years war,and at Arezzo, a ceutiuy later, the plebeians dared to
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