The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . tes have not yet been deter- 8 So called, it may be, to distinguish it mined, from the larger city of Cosa on the neigh- J Repetti, III. p. heights. Certainly the name can- R 2 244 OEBETELLO. [chap, xlix- At the supper-table I met the arch-priest of Telamone, asprightly, courteous young pastor, whom I had seen in themorning among his flock, and a motley group of proprietors, orcountry gentlemen, wild-boar hunters, commercial travellers,monks, bumpkins, and vetturini; among whom the priest, onaccount of his cloth, and I as a foreigner, received
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . tes have not yet been deter- 8 So called, it may be, to distinguish it mined, from the larger city of Cosa on the neigh- J Repetti, III. p. heights. Certainly the name can- R 2 244 OEBETELLO. [chap, xlix- At the supper-table I met the arch-priest of Telamone, asprightly, courteous young pastor, whom I had seen in themorning among his flock, and a motley group of proprietors, orcountry gentlemen, wild-boar hunters, commercial travellers,monks, bumpkins, and vetturini; among whom the priest, onaccount of his cloth, and I as a foreigner, received the mostattention. Travelling in this primitive land levels all distinctionsof rank. The landlords niece, who waited on us, presuming onher good looks, chatted familiarly with her guests, and directedher smartest banter against the young priest, ridiculing hisvows of celibacy, and often in such terms as would have drivenan English woman from the room. Yet Rosinetta was scarcelysixteen ! Hie nullus verbis pndor. aut reverentia ANCIENT GATI CHAPTER L. ANSEDONIA.—C08A. Oernimus antiquas nullo custode ruinas,Et desolate mo?nia fceda Cosse.—Rutilius. (to round about her, and tell the towers well her bulwarks ; that ye may tell them that come after.—Psalm. As Cosa was in the time of the Emperor Honorius, such is itstill—a deserted waste of ruins, inclosed by dilapidated walls ;fourteen centuries have wrought no change in its it is one of the most remarkable of Etruscan sites, andshould not fail to be visited by every one interested in ancientfortifications. It occupies the flat summit of a truncated conical hill, aboutsix hundred feet high, which from its isolation, and proximity tothe sea, forms a conspicuous object in the scenery of this stands just outside the Feniglia, the southernmost of the twonecks of sand which connect Monte Argentaro with the main-land ;and is about five or six miles to the south-east of It 1
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