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GROTTA CAMPANAj AS IT WAS DISCOVERED.
CHAPTER II.
VEIL—The Cemetery.
Non e il mondan romore altro ch' un fiato
Di vento, ch' or vien quinci, ed or vien quindi,
E muta nome, perche muta lato.—Dante.
The noise
Of worldly fame is but a blast of wind
That blows from diverse points, and shifts its name
Shifting the point it blows from.—Cary.
It is to be regretted that so little is to be seen
of the long-forgotten dead of Veii. It was the largest,
and, in Romulus' time, the most mighty of Etruscan
cities, and yet in scarcely one other instance are
there so few tombs to be seen. The hills around the city
without doubt abound in sepulchres, all hewn out of the
rock according to the universal Etruscan custom, but with
CHAPTER II.
VEIL—The Cemetery.
Non e il mondan romore altro ch' un fiato
Di vento, ch' or vien quinci, ed or vien quindi,
E muta nome, perche muta lato.—Dante.
The noise
Of worldly fame is but a blast of wind
That blows from diverse points, and shifts its name
Shifting the point it blows from.—Cary.
It is to be regretted that so little is to be seen
of the long-forgotten dead of Veii. It was the largest,
and, in Romulus' time, the most mighty of Etruscan
cities, and yet in scarcely one other instance are
there so few tombs to be seen. The hills around the city
without doubt abound in sepulchres, all hewn out of the
rock according to the universal Etruscan custom, but with