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CHAPTER XXIV.
STAT0N1A.
Urbes eonstituit setas, hora dissolvit—Seneca.
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state,
An hour may lay it in the dust.—Byron.
North of Toscanella lies a large group of Etruscan sites.
The road, which is scarcely carriageable, passes through
the villages of Arlena, Tessenano, and Celere, none of
which betray an antiquity higher than Roman times, and
at the distance of twelve or fourteen miles reaches Ischia,
whose position on a tongue of land between profound
ravines, full of tombs, marks it as an Etruscan site. There
is nothing of interest, however ; the tombs are utterly
defaced by their application to the uses of the inhabitants.
The ancient name of the place is quite unknown. It was
a small town, probably dependent on Tarquinii or Vulci.
Its Etruscan character is not generally recognised ; yet
Campanari made excavations here a few years since.
As Ischia is on the way to Pitigliano and Sovana, it
may be well to state that accommodation is to be had at
the house of Sabetta Parolfi—tolerable enough considering
the intense squalor of the town;
—quis enim non vicus abundat
Tristibus obscoenis 1—
for here you meet with clean sheets, foul tables and
tongues, unbounded civility and scanty comfort, wretched
meals and good society. The house is patronised by the
STAT0N1A.
Urbes eonstituit setas, hora dissolvit—Seneca.
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state,
An hour may lay it in the dust.—Byron.
North of Toscanella lies a large group of Etruscan sites.
The road, which is scarcely carriageable, passes through
the villages of Arlena, Tessenano, and Celere, none of
which betray an antiquity higher than Roman times, and
at the distance of twelve or fourteen miles reaches Ischia,
whose position on a tongue of land between profound
ravines, full of tombs, marks it as an Etruscan site. There
is nothing of interest, however ; the tombs are utterly
defaced by their application to the uses of the inhabitants.
The ancient name of the place is quite unknown. It was
a small town, probably dependent on Tarquinii or Vulci.
Its Etruscan character is not generally recognised ; yet
Campanari made excavations here a few years since.
As Ischia is on the way to Pitigliano and Sovana, it
may be well to state that accommodation is to be had at
the house of Sabetta Parolfi—tolerable enough considering
the intense squalor of the town;
—quis enim non vicus abundat
Tristibus obscoenis 1—
for here you meet with clean sheets, foul tables and
tongues, unbounded civility and scanty comfort, wretched
meals and good society. The house is patronised by the