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A truce was agreed on, and ten Roman youths and as many girls were given up to the Etruscans as hostages.
Her dynasty of powerful Etruscan kings had been driven out, and her infant commonwealth was reeling under the attacks of the Etruscans and Volscians from without, and the fierce dissensions between the patricians and plebeians within. Etruria, with her Lucumos and serfs, was no match for Persia.
Just resentment urged the Carthaginians to accept that offer of war; had Catulus insisted upon the cession of Sardinia five years before, the war would probably have pursued its course. Thus the Romans acquired Sardinia almost without a struggle; to which they added Corsica, the ancient possession of the Etruscans, where perhaps some detached Roman garrisons still remained over from the last war.
III. VII. Measures Adopted to Check the Immigrations of the Transalpine Gauls III. III. Expedition against Scodra III. III. Impression in Greece and Macedonia III. X. Humiliation of the Greeks in General II. IV. the Celts Assail the Etruscans in Northern Italy
But amidst the admiration which it awakens we may not overlook the fact that it could only be carried out, and was only carried out, by the sacrifice of true individual culture and by a complete renunciation of the equally charming and perilous gifts of the Muses. Dance, Music, and Song among the Sabellians and Etruscans
If they had remained there because they had not the power to advance, they would have been cut to pieces by the Etruscans. We must therefore look upon it as an established fact, that the migration took place at the late period mentioned by Polybius and Diodorus. Brenin, according to Adelung, in his Mithridates, signifies in the language of Wales and Lower Brittany a king.
He escaped and took refuge with Turnus, who protects him with arms. The Etruscans demand that he shall be given up to deserved punishment, and would ere now have attempted to enforce their demand; but their priests restrain them, telling them that it is the will of heaven that no native of the land shall guide them to victory, and that thsir destined leader must come from across the sea.
But all their enterprises melted away like snow in spring; and nowhere did they create a great state or develop a distinctive culture of their own. Celtic Migrations The Celts Assail the Etruscans in Northern Italy Such is the description which the ancients give us of this nation. Its origin can only be conjectured.
The vases were exceedingly interesting, as the first rude attempts of the Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated. But my interest in these objects was speedily transferred to a far more wonderful sight, which the candle of the guide disclosed to me.
The high promontory of Sorrento with the cliff of Capri which is still more precipitous but destitute of any harbour a station thoroughly adapted for corsairs on the watch, commanding a prospect of the Tyrrhene Sea between the bays of Naples and Salerno was early occupied by the Etruscans.
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