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470 PERUGIA.—The City. [chap. lvu.
supplies for Scipio's fleet at the close of the Second Punic
War; its quota, like that of Clusium and Rusellae, con-
sisting of corn, and fir for ship-building.8 It is supposed
to hare been colonised about the year 711,9 and a few
years after, it played a conspicuous part in the civil wars
of Rome ; for Lucius Antonius, being hard pressed by
Augustus, then Octavius Csesar, shut himself up in this
city, which the latter besieged, and starved into surrender.
He gained little, however, by the capture ; for one of the
citizens, in despair, set fire to his house, and slew himself
on the ruins ; and the flames spreading, reduced the whole
city to ashes.1 It was afterwards rebuilt, and colonised
afresh by Augustus,2 as the inscriptions over its gateways
testify, and it still maintained its rank among the chief
cities of Etruria, even in the latter days of the Roman
Empire, when it sustained a siege by the Goths, and was
ultimately taken by Narses.3
8 Liv. XXVIII. 45. as patron deity of Perusia. Appian.
9 This inference is drawn from the Bell. Civ. V. 49 ; Dio Cass. XLVIII.
inscription " Colonia Vibia " on the 14 ; Floras, IV. 5; Veil. Paterc. II. 74 ;
ancient gate called Porta Marzia ; be- Sueton. Aug. 9,96 ; Lucan. 1.41; Serv.
cause C. Vibius Pansa was consul in ad ^En. VI. 833.
that year. Cluver. II. p. 578 ; Cramer, 2 Dion Cass. loc. cit. It is subse-
Ancient Italy, I. p. 219. quently mentioned as a colony by Strabo
1 Except a temple of Vulcan. The (V. p. 226), Pliny (III. 8), Ptolemy (p.
citizens had previously been accustomed 72, ed. Bert.), and is placed by the
to worship Juno, according to the rites Peutingerian Table on the Via Amerina.
of the Etruscans, but after this catas- See Vol. I. p. 146.
trophe they set up Vulcan in her place, 3 Procop. Bell. Goth. I. 16 ; IV. 33.
supplies for Scipio's fleet at the close of the Second Punic
War; its quota, like that of Clusium and Rusellae, con-
sisting of corn, and fir for ship-building.8 It is supposed
to hare been colonised about the year 711,9 and a few
years after, it played a conspicuous part in the civil wars
of Rome ; for Lucius Antonius, being hard pressed by
Augustus, then Octavius Csesar, shut himself up in this
city, which the latter besieged, and starved into surrender.
He gained little, however, by the capture ; for one of the
citizens, in despair, set fire to his house, and slew himself
on the ruins ; and the flames spreading, reduced the whole
city to ashes.1 It was afterwards rebuilt, and colonised
afresh by Augustus,2 as the inscriptions over its gateways
testify, and it still maintained its rank among the chief
cities of Etruria, even in the latter days of the Roman
Empire, when it sustained a siege by the Goths, and was
ultimately taken by Narses.3
8 Liv. XXVIII. 45. as patron deity of Perusia. Appian.
9 This inference is drawn from the Bell. Civ. V. 49 ; Dio Cass. XLVIII.
inscription " Colonia Vibia " on the 14 ; Floras, IV. 5; Veil. Paterc. II. 74 ;
ancient gate called Porta Marzia ; be- Sueton. Aug. 9,96 ; Lucan. 1.41; Serv.
cause C. Vibius Pansa was consul in ad ^En. VI. 833.
that year. Cluver. II. p. 578 ; Cramer, 2 Dion Cass. loc. cit. It is subse-
Ancient Italy, I. p. 219. quently mentioned as a colony by Strabo
1 Except a temple of Vulcan. The (V. p. 226), Pliny (III. 8), Ptolemy (p.
citizens had previously been accustomed 72, ed. Bert.), and is placed by the
to worship Juno, according to the rites Peutingerian Table on the Via Amerina.
of the Etruscans, but after this catas- See Vol. I. p. 146.
trophe they set up Vulcan in her place, 3 Procop. Bell. Goth. I. 16 ; IV. 33.