. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. fil or Tanaquil,) Felia, Sethra,Titia, Phastia, Ane and Ramta, among women; andall of these are of frequent recurrence in sepulchralinscriptions in most of the cities of ancient the most distinguished family names ofwhich we have notices, are the following:—Cfelneor Cilnius, the first in Arretium (Arezzo) for wealthand nobility. In the year 1728, an ancient andsimple family vault was opened not far from Sienna,in a spot which was said to have belonged to theterritory of Arretium, prior to the foundation of thecolony of Sena, and in it
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. fil or Tanaquil,) Felia, Sethra,Titia, Phastia, Ane and Ramta, among women; andall of these are of frequent recurrence in sepulchralinscriptions in most of the cities of ancient the most distinguished family names ofwhich we have notices, are the following:—Cfelneor Cilnius, the first in Arretium (Arezzo) for wealthand nobility. In the year 1728, an ancient andsimple family vault was opened not far from Sienna,in a spot which was said to have belonged to theterritory of Arretium, prior to the foundation of thecolony of Sena, and in it were found twenty winevessels, some sepulchral urns of travertin, and otherlarge vases of terra cotta without ornament, but allinscribed with the name of Cfelne, and containingthe ancestral remains of him who was in after timesdistinguished as the most refined and accomplishedof the Roman Great. Maecenas, or Maccnc, wasanother great Arretian family. And both of thesehave been celebrated by the illustrious poetic friendof their 493 Though, since the Lydians filled the Tuscan coasts,No richer blood than yours Etruria boasts,Though your great ancestors have armies led. Hor. Sat. G, &c. &c. In Volterra we have already mentioned the Csecinasor Ceicnes as the most illustrious. Their tomb wasfound at a place called Campo Nero, belonging tothe Franceschini, and contained ten sepulchral urns,seven with Etruscan and three with Roman inscrip-tions. In Volsinii, one of the chief families wasthe Musonii or Musu, and it was disgraced by beingthe cradle of the race of iElius Sejanus, the worth-less minister of Tiberius, who is called by Juvenalthe favourite of Nortia, i. e. the tutelary god-dess of the town, and in old times the peculiarobject of adoration of Cseles Vibenna, and of thegood Mastarna. From Ferentinum sprang therace of the Salfi or Salvii, tlie ancestors of the Em-peror Otho, and the Flavii or Pflafe, from whomsprang Flavius Scevinus, who conspired againstNero. I
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