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introduction.] ORIGINAL EXTENT OF ETBURIA.
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the Gulf of Salerno on the other ;8 stretching also across the
peninsula from the Tyrrhene to the Adriatic Sea,9 and com-
prising the large islands off her western shores.1
Scylax, Periplus, cited by Muller,
Etrusk. einl. 3, 9. Catullus (XXXI.
13) calls the Benacus, now the Lago
di Garcia, a Lydian, i.«., an Etruscan
lake.
8 The Etruscans at one time pos-
sessed the land of the Volsci, and all
Campania, as far as the Silarus in the
Gulf of Peestum, or, as one account
states, as far as the Sicilian sea. They
took this land from the Greek colonists,
who had driven out the Osci, the
original inhabitants ; and then founded
Capua and Nola. If Velleius Pater-
eulus may be credited, this was 47 years
before the foundation of Rome. Liv.
IV. 37 ; Veil. Patera I. 7 ; Cato, ap.
eund. ; Mela, II. 4 ; Polyb. II. 17 ;
Strabo, V. pp. 242, 247 ; Plin. III. S ;
Serv. ad Virg. Georg. II. 533 ; Cato,
ap. eund. ad Mn. XI. 567.
9 Liv. V. 33, 54 ; Strabo, V. p. 219 ;
Plut. Camill. The Adriatic received
its name from the Etruscan town of
Atria. Plin. III. 20 ; Strabo, V. p.
214 ; cf. Justin. XX. 1. Muller
(Etrusk. einl. 3, 5) interprets Pliny
(III. 19) as saying that a large tract of
the coast of Picenum was once in the
possession of the Etruscans.
1 Elba, called Dva by the Romans,
and ^Ethalia or iEthale by the Greeks,
is well known to have belonged to
Etruria. Virgil (JEn. X. 173) classes
it with the Etruscan states which sent
assistance to ^Eneas. Diodorus (XI.
p. 67) also mentions it as Etruscan.
So the Pseudo-Aristotle, de Mirab.
Auscult. c. 95 ; and Stephanus, mo
voce. There was a close connection
between it and the neighbouring mari-
time city of Populonia (Strabo, V. p.
223; Varro, ap. Serv. ad Virg. loc.
cit.) ; and it is very probable, as Muller
maintains (Etrusk. I. 2, 3), that Ilva
was a possession of that city, unless
indeed both were under the sway of
Volaterras. See Vol. II. pp. 143, 236.
Corsica, the Cyrnus of the Greeks,
was originally colonised by the Pho-
caeans of Massilia, then by the Ligu-
rians, and Iberians, and ultimately by
the Etruscans ; whose dominion in the
island was on the increase, thinks
Muller (Etrusk. einl. 4, 6), between the
55th and 61st Olympiads (560 — 536
B.c). About 305 B.C. Corsica was still
in their hands, and probably continued
so to the last days of their indepen-
dence. Seneca, Cons, ad Helv. cap.
VIII; Pausan. X. 17 ; Diodor. Sic.
V. p. 295, XI. p. 67 ; Herod. I. 165,
166; Isidor. Orig. XIV. 6. Muller
takes the " Libyans," mentioned by
Pausanias as inhabitants of the island,
to be Ligurians. Callimachus (Delos.
19, cited by MUller) calls the island
Phoenician at the time of the First
Punic War. Herodotus (VII. 165)
seems also to mark it as dependent on
Carthage. It would seem that Corsica
was never fully occupied by the Etrus-
cans, for it was a wild, forest-grown,
little populated, uncivilised land, and its
inhabitants had the simple manners of
a rude state of society (Strabo, V. p.
224 ; Diodor. V. p. 295 ; Theophrast.
Hist. Plant. V. 8) ; and it is very likely,
as Muller conjectures, that it was a
mere nest of pirates. Niebuhr thinks
this island, as well as Elba, was not
under the dominion of the Etruscan
nation, but merely of one of the adja-
cent maritime cities. I. p. 126.
That Sardinia was a possession of the
Etruscans is not so clearly set forth.
The earliest settlers were the Libyans,
the Greeks, the Iberians, and the
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the Gulf of Salerno on the other ;8 stretching also across the
peninsula from the Tyrrhene to the Adriatic Sea,9 and com-
prising the large islands off her western shores.1
Scylax, Periplus, cited by Muller,
Etrusk. einl. 3, 9. Catullus (XXXI.
13) calls the Benacus, now the Lago
di Garcia, a Lydian, i.«., an Etruscan
lake.
8 The Etruscans at one time pos-
sessed the land of the Volsci, and all
Campania, as far as the Silarus in the
Gulf of Peestum, or, as one account
states, as far as the Sicilian sea. They
took this land from the Greek colonists,
who had driven out the Osci, the
original inhabitants ; and then founded
Capua and Nola. If Velleius Pater-
eulus may be credited, this was 47 years
before the foundation of Rome. Liv.
IV. 37 ; Veil. Patera I. 7 ; Cato, ap.
eund. ; Mela, II. 4 ; Polyb. II. 17 ;
Strabo, V. pp. 242, 247 ; Plin. III. S ;
Serv. ad Virg. Georg. II. 533 ; Cato,
ap. eund. ad Mn. XI. 567.
9 Liv. V. 33, 54 ; Strabo, V. p. 219 ;
Plut. Camill. The Adriatic received
its name from the Etruscan town of
Atria. Plin. III. 20 ; Strabo, V. p.
214 ; cf. Justin. XX. 1. Muller
(Etrusk. einl. 3, 5) interprets Pliny
(III. 19) as saying that a large tract of
the coast of Picenum was once in the
possession of the Etruscans.
1 Elba, called Dva by the Romans,
and ^Ethalia or iEthale by the Greeks,
is well known to have belonged to
Etruria. Virgil (JEn. X. 173) classes
it with the Etruscan states which sent
assistance to ^Eneas. Diodorus (XI.
p. 67) also mentions it as Etruscan.
So the Pseudo-Aristotle, de Mirab.
Auscult. c. 95 ; and Stephanus, mo
voce. There was a close connection
between it and the neighbouring mari-
time city of Populonia (Strabo, V. p.
223; Varro, ap. Serv. ad Virg. loc.
cit.) ; and it is very probable, as Muller
maintains (Etrusk. I. 2, 3), that Ilva
was a possession of that city, unless
indeed both were under the sway of
Volaterras. See Vol. II. pp. 143, 236.
Corsica, the Cyrnus of the Greeks,
was originally colonised by the Pho-
caeans of Massilia, then by the Ligu-
rians, and Iberians, and ultimately by
the Etruscans ; whose dominion in the
island was on the increase, thinks
Muller (Etrusk. einl. 4, 6), between the
55th and 61st Olympiads (560 — 536
B.c). About 305 B.C. Corsica was still
in their hands, and probably continued
so to the last days of their indepen-
dence. Seneca, Cons, ad Helv. cap.
VIII; Pausan. X. 17 ; Diodor. Sic.
V. p. 295, XI. p. 67 ; Herod. I. 165,
166; Isidor. Orig. XIV. 6. Muller
takes the " Libyans," mentioned by
Pausanias as inhabitants of the island,
to be Ligurians. Callimachus (Delos.
19, cited by MUller) calls the island
Phoenician at the time of the First
Punic War. Herodotus (VII. 165)
seems also to mark it as dependent on
Carthage. It would seem that Corsica
was never fully occupied by the Etrus-
cans, for it was a wild, forest-grown,
little populated, uncivilised land, and its
inhabitants had the simple manners of
a rude state of society (Strabo, V. p.
224 ; Diodor. V. p. 295 ; Theophrast.
Hist. Plant. V. 8) ; and it is very likely,
as Muller conjectures, that it was a
mere nest of pirates. Niebuhr thinks
this island, as well as Elba, was not
under the dominion of the Etruscan
nation, but merely of one of the adja-
cent maritime cities. I. p. 126.
That Sardinia was a possession of the
Etruscans is not so clearly set forth.
The earliest settlers were the Libyans,
the Greeks, the Iberians, and the