The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . SATYRS AND HARPY, FROM THE ETRUSCAN LAMP, CORTONA MUSEUM. CHAPTER LX. COETONA.—CORTONA. Corythum, terrasque requiratAusonias !—Virgil. Clara fuit Sparte ; magna? viguere Mycenae ; Vile solum Sparte est; alta? cecidere Mycenae.—Ovid. Traveller, thou art approaching Cortona ! Dost thou,reverence age—that fulness of years which, as Pliny says, inman is venerable, in cities sacred? Here is that which demandsthy reverence. Here is a city, compared to which Home is butof yesterday—to which most other cities of ancient renown arefresh and green. Thou mayst have
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . SATYRS AND HARPY, FROM THE ETRUSCAN LAMP, CORTONA MUSEUM. CHAPTER LX. COETONA.—CORTONA. Corythum, terrasque requiratAusonias !—Virgil. Clara fuit Sparte ; magna? viguere Mycenae ; Vile solum Sparte est; alta? cecidere Mycenae.—Ovid. Traveller, thou art approaching Cortona ! Dost thou,reverence age—that fulness of years which, as Pliny says, inman is venerable, in cities sacred? Here is that which demandsthy reverence. Here is a city, compared to which Home is butof yesterday—to which most other cities of ancient renown arefresh and green. Thou mayst have wandered far and widethrough Italy—nothing hast thou seen more venerable thanCortona. Ere the days of Hector and Achilles, ere Troy itselfarose—Cortona was. On that bare and lofty height, whose. I -«1 8 © N 3 & g o 1 • (U £ *a -a .a 05 .-= PP a O Ift -5 § 2 5 -d *a po « oT • —. m a 32 d <1 II s £ o cPh Ph y a o d<! Q fi j -a c, O O Kl Ju £ oQ 1 S a Ph Eh o o g a h5 11 II i-i (N CO f o so t~ CO C5 o ~ ft1 2 3 5 ft 3C cs o CI -N ?M CI V ill 396 COKTONA. [chap. lx. towered crest holds communion with the cloud, dwelt theheaven-born Dardanus, ere he left Italy to found the Trojanrace ; and on that mount reigned his father Corythus, andthere he was laid in the Such is the ancient legend, andwherefore gainsay it ? Away with doubts !—pay thy full tributeof homage—acccptam parce movere fidem ! Hast thou respect tofallen greatness ?—Yon solemn city was once the proudest andmightiest in the
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