. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . met with, it is true, in theexcavations; but only the obsciue dead had their last abode there,and like faitliful seiwants, guarded the approaches to the placewhere their master reposed. The Lucumo and liis kin were fiutherin, in a central crypt, the access to which had been shut by a Pliny, Xat. Ilist., liJ. - Quatremere de Quiiicv, Recueil de Dissert, arch., 1836. g2 INTKODllTIOX. wall (if such lliickucss tlmt the Morkincu could not hrcak tlivnuu,liit. All efforts uiade to •d
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . met with, it is true, in theexcavations; but only the obsciue dead had their last abode there,and like faitliful seiwants, guarded the approaches to the placewhere their master reposed. The Lucumo and liis kin were fiutherin, in a central crypt, the access to which had been shut by a Pliny, Xat. Ilist., liJ. - Quatremere de Quiiicv, Recueil de Dissert, arch., 1836. g2 INTKODllTIOX. wall (if such lliickucss tlmt the Morkincu could not hrcak tlivnuu,liit. All efforts uiade to •discover the eutrance to this siui;ulai-iiiouuuuut were useless : the pjrandds of Egypt have not defendedtheir seiudehral chambers so Avell. In the cuttings made round theouter -wall were found animals in basalt, A\inged sphinxes, lionsstanding or couched, watching over this jialace of the dead to driv(>away the audacious visitor who should attempt to jjass thegate. On the summit were still seen the bases of jiartially crundiledtowers. With the help of these remains it was possible to restore. Tile (iiciimella. this mysterious tomb with some appoiivance of probability. Theedifice is utterly devoid of grace ; but purely Etruscan art had notthat gift which Greece received from jMinerva, and strange as thisconstruction ajipears, it is not more so than the /ininilii-s of theLydiau king, Alyattes, on the banks of the To buiy their chiefs under great tumuli was the custom of theScythians, Germans, Celts, and Lydians, and consequently of theIelusgians: it is therefore cpiite natural to find it again in Etruiia,csi)ecially in the region where the Tyrrhenians had settled. The Tills rtSt oral ion was made undur I hu Jiivctious iif tliu Irincu uf Caiiiuo, whose domaincomprLsed tbe site of Vulci. Herodotus, i. ; Stuart, Mun. nf Li/dia, ]>. 4: Icxier, Dcvcriiitinn de min. iii. lO. ;/^
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