. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . citadel of that town, more imposing than those of ICtruria, isbuilt like them, of enormous stones. Livy, iv. i \ Cato, riji. Palere., i. 7; Polyhius, ii. 17. I>anzi adds to these five townsNocera, Calatia, Teanum, Cales, Suessa, .ICseniia and Atella. THE ETRUSCANS. IXIX uiicler their sway, and the two seas ^nhich wash the shores ofItaly took aud still keep, the one the name of this people, TuscumMare, the sea of Tuscany ; the other of its colony of Adria, theAdi-iatie. Unhappily, ther
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . citadel of that town, more imposing than those of ICtruria, isbuilt like them, of enormous stones. Livy, iv. i \ Cato, riji. Palere., i. 7; Polyhius, ii. 17. I>anzi adds to these five townsNocera, Calatia, Teanum, Cales, Suessa, .ICseniia and Atella. THE ETRUSCANS. IXIX uiicler their sway, and the two seas ^nhich wash the shores ofItaly took aud still keep, the one the name of this people, TuscumMare, the sea of Tuscany ; the other of its colony of Adria, theAdi-iatie. Unhappily, there Avas no union in this vast dominion. TheEtruscans were everywhere, on tlie banks of the Po, the Arho andthe Tiber, at the foot of tlie Alps and in Campania, on the Adriaticand on the Tyrrhenian Sea ; but where was Etruria ? Like Atticaunder Ceerops, like the ^•Eolians and lonians in Asia, the Achajansin Greece, the Salentines and Lucanians in Italy, the Etiniscanswere di\idcd, in each country occupied by them, into twelv(j in-(Icpeudcnit tribes, which were united by a federal bond, without any. Tuscan geueral league f(ir tlie whole nation. For instance, when any gravecircumstances occm-red in Etruria proper, the chiefs of each cityassembled at the temple of Voltumna, in the territory of Yolsinii,to treat there concerning the interests of the country, or to celebrate,under the presidency of a supreme pontiif, the national feasts. Inthe days of then- conquests, the union was doubtless very close,and the chief of one of the twelve tribes, being proclaimed general-issimo, exercised an unlimited power, indicated by the twelve lictorsfurnished by th(^ twelve cities, with their fasces surmounted by Cato, ap. Serv. in .-En., xi. 51)7. Livy repeats it in almost the same terms iu differentplaces(i. 2. ; V. 33). - This group in bronze, found at Arezzo. thoun-ht to he oonnected with llic legendof tlie hirth of Ta this l)t)iul was relaxed, and the Etruscans,who h
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