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CHAPTER XXXV.
LUNL—LUNA.
Lunai portum est operse cognoscere cives !
Ennius.
Anne metalliferae repetit jam mcenia Lunse,
Tyrrhenasque domos ?
Statius.
The most northerly city of Etruria was Luna. It stood,
indeed, on the very frontier, on the left bank of the Macra,
which formed the north-western boundary of that land.1
And though at one time in the possession of the Ligurians,
together with a wide tract to the south, even down to Pisa
and the Arno, yet Luna was originally Etruscan, and as
such it was recognised in Imperial times.2 It was never
1 Strabo, V. p. 222. Strabo speaks
of Macra as a place—xa9mv > but Pliny
(III. 7, 8) is more definite in marking
it as a river, the boundary of Etruria—
flumen Macra, Ligurise finis—patet ora
Ligurise inter amnes Varum et Maeram
—adnectitur septimae, in qua Etruria
est, ab amne Maera—Tiberis amnis a
Macra.
- Much confusion has arisen from the
contradictory statements of ancient
writers in calling this territory some-
times Ligurian, sometimes Etruscan.
On one side are Mela (II. 4—Luna
Ligurum) ; Frontinus (Strat. III. 2—
Luna, oppidum Ligurum) ; Persius
(Sat. VI. 6) ; Statius (Sylv. IV. 3,
99) ; Justin (XX. 1) ; Polybius (II.
16) ; Aristotle (or the author of De
Mirand. Auscultat., c. 94) ; Lycophron
(Cassandra, 1356); cf. Juven. Sat. III.
257 ; Liv. XXI. 59. On the other
hand, we have Strabo (V. p. 222) ;
Pliny (III. 8 ; XIV. 8, 5) ; Silius
Italicus (VIII. 482) ; Lucan (I. 586) ;
Statius (Sylv. IV. 4, 23) ; Martial
(Epig. XIII. 30) ; cf. Plin. XL 97;
Ptolemy (Geog. p. 68, ed. Bert.) ; and
Stephanus (sub voce 2«A^jtj) ; who all
represent Luna as Etruscan. Livy
(XLI. 13) explains the discrepancy by
stating that Luna with its ager was
captured by the Romans from the
Ligurians ; but that before it belonged
to the latter it had been Etruscan.
Lycophron, however, represents the
Ligures as dispossessed of Pisa and its
territory by the Etruscans. Cluver (II.
p. 458) gathers from Servius (JEn. X.
179), that Luna must have been founded
some ages before the Trojan War.
LUNL—LUNA.
Lunai portum est operse cognoscere cives !
Ennius.
Anne metalliferae repetit jam mcenia Lunse,
Tyrrhenasque domos ?
Statius.
The most northerly city of Etruria was Luna. It stood,
indeed, on the very frontier, on the left bank of the Macra,
which formed the north-western boundary of that land.1
And though at one time in the possession of the Ligurians,
together with a wide tract to the south, even down to Pisa
and the Arno, yet Luna was originally Etruscan, and as
such it was recognised in Imperial times.2 It was never
1 Strabo, V. p. 222. Strabo speaks
of Macra as a place—xa9mv > but Pliny
(III. 7, 8) is more definite in marking
it as a river, the boundary of Etruria—
flumen Macra, Ligurise finis—patet ora
Ligurise inter amnes Varum et Maeram
—adnectitur septimae, in qua Etruria
est, ab amne Maera—Tiberis amnis a
Macra.
- Much confusion has arisen from the
contradictory statements of ancient
writers in calling this territory some-
times Ligurian, sometimes Etruscan.
On one side are Mela (II. 4—Luna
Ligurum) ; Frontinus (Strat. III. 2—
Luna, oppidum Ligurum) ; Persius
(Sat. VI. 6) ; Statius (Sylv. IV. 3,
99) ; Justin (XX. 1) ; Polybius (II.
16) ; Aristotle (or the author of De
Mirand. Auscultat., c. 94) ; Lycophron
(Cassandra, 1356); cf. Juven. Sat. III.
257 ; Liv. XXI. 59. On the other
hand, we have Strabo (V. p. 222) ;
Pliny (III. 8 ; XIV. 8, 5) ; Silius
Italicus (VIII. 482) ; Lucan (I. 586) ;
Statius (Sylv. IV. 4, 23) ; Martial
(Epig. XIII. 30) ; cf. Plin. XL 97;
Ptolemy (Geog. p. 68, ed. Bert.) ; and
Stephanus (sub voce 2«A^jtj) ; who all
represent Luna as Etruscan. Livy
(XLI. 13) explains the discrepancy by
stating that Luna with its ager was
captured by the Romans from the
Ligurians ; but that before it belonged
to the latter it had been Etruscan.
Lycophron, however, represents the
Ligures as dispossessed of Pisa and its
territory by the Etruscans. Cluver (II.
p. 458) gathers from Servius (JEn. X.
179), that Luna must have been founded
some ages before the Trojan War.