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Chap. VIII: Etruria - the Cremera - Veii - Falerium - Mount Soracte - Fescennium - Mevania - Asisium - Lake of Trasimenus - Entrance into the Tuscan Territory - Coxtona - Ancient Etrurians - Arretium - Val d'Arno
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the Monte Petino on our right, and entered Fo-
ligno. From this town the country became new
to our eyes, and to its continued beauty super-
added the charms of novelty.
On the left of the road from Foligno, at the
distance of about six miles, the towers of Me-
vania (now with a slight alteration Bevagnia)
latis projecta in campis* arise visible above the
woods. The river on which it stands still nearly
retains its ancient name Timicrf, and with the
Clitumnus contributes to water and to fertilize the
vale over which Mevania seems to preside. Pro-
pertius was born in this town and indulges the
vanity of a poet in describing the lustre which it
derives from that circumstance.
Scandentes si quis cernit de vallibus arces
Ingenio muros aestimet ille meo. Lib. iv. Eleg. i.
On the right on the side of a hill stands the
little town of Ispello (JHispellum) a Roman co-
lony, whose sons, if a poet may be believed,
* Siiius Italicus, lib. vi.
t Cluverius mistakes when he calls this river the Topino,
a stream which, flowing from Foligno, joins the Timia at a
town called Cannara, about six miles north of 'Mevania.
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the Monte Petino on our right, and entered Fo-
ligno. From this town the country became new
to our eyes, and to its continued beauty super-
added the charms of novelty.
On the left of the road from Foligno, at the
distance of about six miles, the towers of Me-
vania (now with a slight alteration Bevagnia)
latis projecta in campis* arise visible above the
woods. The river on which it stands still nearly
retains its ancient name Timicrf, and with the
Clitumnus contributes to water and to fertilize the
vale over which Mevania seems to preside. Pro-
pertius was born in this town and indulges the
vanity of a poet in describing the lustre which it
derives from that circumstance.
Scandentes si quis cernit de vallibus arces
Ingenio muros aestimet ille meo. Lib. iv. Eleg. i.
On the right on the side of a hill stands the
little town of Ispello (JHispellum) a Roman co-
lony, whose sons, if a poet may be believed,
* Siiius Italicus, lib. vi.
t Cluverius mistakes when he calls this river the Topino,
a stream which, flowing from Foligno, joins the Timia at a
town called Cannara, about six miles north of 'Mevania.
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