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CYLIX, OR DRINKING-BOWL, FROM VULCI.
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CHAPTER XXI.
VULCI.
Ruine di cittadi e di castella
Stavan con gran tresor quivi sozzopra.—Akiosto.
What sacred trophy marks the hallowed ground 1. ..
The rifled urn, the violated mound.—Byron.
" Vulci is a city whose very name, twenty years since,
was scarcely remembered, but which now, for the enor-
mous treasures of antiquity it has yielded, is exalted above
every other city of the ancient world, not excepting even,
in certain respects, Herculaneum or Pompeii."1 Little is
to be seen, it must be confessed, on its site ; yet a visit to
it will hardly disappoint the traveller. It lies about
eighteen miles north-west of Corneto. The road, for the
first eleven or twelve, or as far as Montalto, follows the
fine of the ancient Via Aurelia along the coast, and is the
modern high-road to Leghorn ; traversing a country bare
and undulating, and of little scenic beauty. Montalto, the
only town between Corneto and Orbetello, is a small, dull
1 Dr. Braun. Ann. Inst. 1842, p. 39.
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CHAPTER XXI.
VULCI.
Ruine di cittadi e di castella
Stavan con gran tresor quivi sozzopra.—Akiosto.
What sacred trophy marks the hallowed ground 1. ..
The rifled urn, the violated mound.—Byron.
" Vulci is a city whose very name, twenty years since,
was scarcely remembered, but which now, for the enor-
mous treasures of antiquity it has yielded, is exalted above
every other city of the ancient world, not excepting even,
in certain respects, Herculaneum or Pompeii."1 Little is
to be seen, it must be confessed, on its site ; yet a visit to
it will hardly disappoint the traveller. It lies about
eighteen miles north-west of Corneto. The road, for the
first eleven or twelve, or as far as Montalto, follows the
fine of the ancient Via Aurelia along the coast, and is the
modern high-road to Leghorn ; traversing a country bare
and undulating, and of little scenic beauty. Montalto, the
only town between Corneto and Orbetello, is a small, dull
1 Dr. Braun. Ann. Inst. 1842, p. 39.