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chap, xix.] LEGENDS OF DEMARATUS AND HIS SON. 375
wealthy merchant of Corinth, being compelled to fly from his
native city on the usurpation of Cypselus and the expulsion
of the Bacchiads, migrated to Btruria, with which he had long
been in the habit of commercial intercourse, and settled at
Tarquinii. He married a lady of that city, and begat two
sons.10 He brought with him a large band of fellow-
refugees, among them two potters or workers in clay,
Eucheir and Eugrammos—names indicative of their skill
—and a painter named Cleophantos. Whether these be
real existences, or mere symbols of their respective arts,
it is obviously meant that Demaratus introduced the civi-
lisation of Greece and her refinement in the arts into the
land of his adoption.1 He was well received by the
Tarquinienses,—one account, indeed, represents him as
attaining to the supreme power in that city, in consequence
of his great wealth.2
Lucumo or Lucius, the eldest son of Demaratus, and
heir of his vast possessions, married an Etruscan lady of
noble birth; but though thus alhed to their aristocracy,
and himself a native of Tarquinii, he was looked down on
by the Etruscans on account of his foreign origin. Unable
to brook this wound to his pride, he quitted the city of
his birth, and seeking a fairer field for his ambition,
migrated to Rome, where his talents and wealth eventually
raised him to the throne, which he filled as Tarquinius
Priscus.3 With his history after he quitted his native city,
10 Lir. I. 34 ; Dion. Hal. III. p. 184 ; the Etruscans alphabetical writing; and
Strab. V. p. 219 ; Cic. Tuse. Qusest. V. according to Cicero (de Repub. II. 19)
37 ; de Repub. II. 19 ; Macrob. Saturn. and Dionysius (loe. cit.), he instructed
I. 6. Dionysius says he had made his his sons in all the arts of Greece, for
immense fortune by trading with Etruria which Rome was indebted to Tarquin,
alone. who—Grsecum ingenium Italicis artibus
1 Plin. N. H., XXXV. 5, 43. He miscuisset—says Floras, I. 5.
says that these two fictores first intro- » Strab. VIII. p. 378.
duced the plastic art into Italy. Tacitus 3 rjv j 34 . D;on- Haj xil. p. 185 ;
(Ann. XI. 14) says Demaratus taught Polyb. VI. 2, ap. Suid. v. Atimos. AH
wealthy merchant of Corinth, being compelled to fly from his
native city on the usurpation of Cypselus and the expulsion
of the Bacchiads, migrated to Btruria, with which he had long
been in the habit of commercial intercourse, and settled at
Tarquinii. He married a lady of that city, and begat two
sons.10 He brought with him a large band of fellow-
refugees, among them two potters or workers in clay,
Eucheir and Eugrammos—names indicative of their skill
—and a painter named Cleophantos. Whether these be
real existences, or mere symbols of their respective arts,
it is obviously meant that Demaratus introduced the civi-
lisation of Greece and her refinement in the arts into the
land of his adoption.1 He was well received by the
Tarquinienses,—one account, indeed, represents him as
attaining to the supreme power in that city, in consequence
of his great wealth.2
Lucumo or Lucius, the eldest son of Demaratus, and
heir of his vast possessions, married an Etruscan lady of
noble birth; but though thus alhed to their aristocracy,
and himself a native of Tarquinii, he was looked down on
by the Etruscans on account of his foreign origin. Unable
to brook this wound to his pride, he quitted the city of
his birth, and seeking a fairer field for his ambition,
migrated to Rome, where his talents and wealth eventually
raised him to the throne, which he filled as Tarquinius
Priscus.3 With his history after he quitted his native city,
10 Lir. I. 34 ; Dion. Hal. III. p. 184 ; the Etruscans alphabetical writing; and
Strab. V. p. 219 ; Cic. Tuse. Qusest. V. according to Cicero (de Repub. II. 19)
37 ; de Repub. II. 19 ; Macrob. Saturn. and Dionysius (loe. cit.), he instructed
I. 6. Dionysius says he had made his his sons in all the arts of Greece, for
immense fortune by trading with Etruria which Rome was indebted to Tarquin,
alone. who—Grsecum ingenium Italicis artibus
1 Plin. N. H., XXXV. 5, 43. He miscuisset—says Floras, I. 5.
says that these two fictores first intro- » Strab. VIII. p. 378.
duced the plastic art into Italy. Tacitus 3 rjv j 34 . D;on- Haj xil. p. 185 ;
(Ann. XI. 14) says Demaratus taught Polyb. VI. 2, ap. Suid. v. Atimos. AH