Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 3): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

Ch. VIII.

THROUGH ITALY.

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all the intrepidity which the first taste of such a
blessing· must inspire. Here they triumphed
over Tarquin and his Etrurian allies ; and here
their leader and consul, Brutus, sealed their free-
dom with his blood. This region was the theatre
of the Veientian war, and witnessed all the
glorious deeds that graced that long protracted
contest.
All this territory, the object of so much con-
test and bloodshed, is now a desert. Even the
capital itself, which stood so long· the rival and
terror of Rome, and would have been preferred
to it, if the authority of Camillus, and an omen,
that is, a lucky coincidence of a military order
with the subject debate of the senate, had not pre-
vailed over the representations of the tribunes;
even Veii itself has perished, nor left a vestige to
mark its situation. Hence even antiquaries differ
as to the real spot. Some place it at Civita
Casteliana, and others, with more probability, at
Scrofa.no, on a, rocky hill called Monte Musivo,
about six miles on the right from the road between
La Storta and Baccano, and of course about
twelve from Rome.* The distance and natural

* Others again place Veii in a little island about a mile and
ίχη half to the right of La Storta,