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CHAPTER VIII.
FESCENNIUM.
Though nought at all but ruines now I bee,
And lye in mine own ashes, as you see ;
Verlame I was ; what bootes it that I was,
Sith now I am but weedes and wastefull grass ?
Spenseb.
Hem ! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis nostrum interiit aut oeeisus est quorum
vita brevior esse debet, cum uno loco tot oppidum cadavera projecta jaceant ?
Sebt. Sulpit., Epist. ad M. Tull. Cieer.
The second town of the Falisci, Fescennium, or Fes-
cennia, or Fascenium, as Dionysius calls it, was founded,
like Falerii, by the Siculi, who were driven out by
the Pelasgi; traces of which latter race were still extant
in Dionysius' day, in the warlike tactics, the Argolic
shields and spears, the religious rites and ceremonies, and
in the construction and furniture of the temples of
the Falisci.3 This Argive or Pelasgic origin of Fescen-
nium, as well as of Falerii, is confirmed by Solinus.4
Virgil mentions Fescennium as sending her hosts to the
assistance of Turnus ;5 but no notice of it, which can be
regarded as historical, has come down to us; and it is
probable that, as a Faliscan town, it followed the fortunes
and fate of Falerii. It was a Koman colony in the time of
Pliny.6 We know only this in addition, that here are
said to have originated the songs, which from an early
3 Dion. HaL I., pp. 16,17.
4 Solin. II., p. 13. Servius however s yirg. jjjjj \ 0_
ascribes to Fescennium an Athenian « Plin. III. 8.
origin, and calls it a town of Campania.
FESCENNIUM.
Though nought at all but ruines now I bee,
And lye in mine own ashes, as you see ;
Verlame I was ; what bootes it that I was,
Sith now I am but weedes and wastefull grass ?
Spenseb.
Hem ! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis nostrum interiit aut oeeisus est quorum
vita brevior esse debet, cum uno loco tot oppidum cadavera projecta jaceant ?
Sebt. Sulpit., Epist. ad M. Tull. Cieer.
The second town of the Falisci, Fescennium, or Fes-
cennia, or Fascenium, as Dionysius calls it, was founded,
like Falerii, by the Siculi, who were driven out by
the Pelasgi; traces of which latter race were still extant
in Dionysius' day, in the warlike tactics, the Argolic
shields and spears, the religious rites and ceremonies, and
in the construction and furniture of the temples of
the Falisci.3 This Argive or Pelasgic origin of Fescen-
nium, as well as of Falerii, is confirmed by Solinus.4
Virgil mentions Fescennium as sending her hosts to the
assistance of Turnus ;5 but no notice of it, which can be
regarded as historical, has come down to us; and it is
probable that, as a Faliscan town, it followed the fortunes
and fate of Falerii. It was a Koman colony in the time of
Pliny.6 We know only this in addition, that here are
said to have originated the songs, which from an early
3 Dion. HaL I., pp. 16,17.
4 Solin. II., p. 13. Servius however s yirg. jjjjj \ 0_
ascribes to Fescennium an Athenian « Plin. III. 8.
origin, and calls it a town of Campania.