The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . s (V. 122) whichNiebuhr (I. p. 33) pronounced decisive— Poenus nunc occupet altosArreti muros, Corythi nunc diruat arcem ?Hinc Clusina petat ? postremo ad moeniaRomre, & poet uses the ancient name for thesake of the verse, as elsewhere (IV. 721)—sedemque ab origine prisciSacratam is no reason to believe that it wasretained to Annibals time, to which thepoem refers, much less to his own. CHAP. LX.] ANCIENT AND MODERN CORTONA 397 tracts of corn, and garden ground, and naked rock, within thewalls—such is modern Cortona. She 1ms made progre
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . s (V. 122) whichNiebuhr (I. p. 33) pronounced decisive— Poenus nunc occupet altosArreti muros, Corythi nunc diruat arcem ?Hinc Clusina petat ? postremo ad moeniaRomre, & poet uses the ancient name for thesake of the verse, as elsewhere (IV. 721)—sedemque ab origine prisciSacratam is no reason to believe that it wasretained to Annibals time, to which thepoem refers, much less to his own. CHAP. LX.] ANCIENT AND MODERN CORTONA 397 tracts of corn, and garden ground, and naked rock, within thewalls—such is modern Cortona. She 1ms made progress duringthe past generation, and is no longer to be accused of filthy, ill-paved streets, nor of mean and squalid houses. Modern Cortona retains the site of the ancient city, which wasof oblong form, and about two miles in circumference. Themodern walls are in most parts based on the ancient, though atthe higher end of the city the latter made a much wider may be traced in fragments more or less preserved for a. ANCIENT WALLS OP CORTONA. great part round the city; and are composed of rectangular blocks of great size, arranged without much regularity, thoughwith more regard to horizontality and distinct courses than isobservable in the walls of Volterra or Populonia, and oftenjoined with great nicety, like the masonry of Fiesole. At thelower part of the city, they stretch for a long distance in anunbroken line beneath the modern fortifications. But the finest 2 Micalis Plan (Ant. Pop. Ital. ) makes Cortona about 10,000 feet incircumference, but taking into account thewider circuit of the ancient walls round theFortress, which he has not indicated, thecity cannot have been less than two milesround. Thus it would be scarcely largerthan Rusellae, and among the smallest ofthe cities of the Confederation. 3 The finest portions at this end areabout Porta Colonia on the north of thecity, where the blocks are from 9 to 13feet in length by more than 3 feet inhe
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