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Ch. VIII.

strength of this site correspond with the de-
scription of Veil, and some masses of rubbish are
pointed out, as the remains of a city once supe-
rior even to Rome in magnificence, and capable,
like Troy, of resisting for ten years the efforts of
an army of fifty thousand men. But how vain it
is to explore the situation of a place, which has
been a solitude for more than two thousand
years.
Nunc intra muros pastoris buccina lenti
Cantat—et in vestris ossibus arva metcnt.
Propertius iv. 11,
The flocks had fed in the streets, and the plough-
share had furrowed the sepulchres of the fallen
Veientes ; a melancholy observation, applicable
not to Veii alone, but to all the early rivals of
Rome, Fidente, (Venina, Corioli, Ardea, Alba.
Not the site only but almost the memory of Veil
was obliterated in the time of Florus,—Nunc
Veios fuisse quis meminit P quae reliquice P quodve
vestigium P*
At length the morning dawned, and Aurora
(such as Guido contemplated, and vainly endea-

* Lib. i. 12,