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and the broken clay is the most enduring, perhaps
the only indestructible mark of hisproudest dwelling!
We had no time to visit more of the remains
which still exist of this once powerful town. Still
may be traced the Forum, the temple of Juno, many
of the gates, and the arx called Piazza d'Armi, situ-
ated a little higher than the rest of the town. In that
part of the Piazza d'Armi where antiquaries place
the temple of Juno, was found, in 1830, a piece of
marble of Roman times, but commemorative of the
family of Tarquitia. They were noted soothsayers
amongst the Etruscans, from whose books auguries
were taken down to the time of the Emperor
Julian's last war with the Persians.* It is sepul-
chral, and of the period of the Roman colony, when
the citadel was beyond the settlement—
M. SAENIO.
MARCELLO.
TAHQVITIA.
PHISCA.
VXOH.
Professor Nibby mentions an inscription which refers
to a statue of Tarquitius, destroyed by the fall of
the temple of Mars.
Nowhere can be found the Cuniculus of Camillus,
which terminated in the temple, and was probably
a small work, though so important in its results.
Close to the Via Vejentina is a mass of stone, which
was its probable situation. Besides these remains,
in a.d. 1820, Sir W. Gell found distinct traces of nine
* Pliny says that Tarquitius Priscus wrote a book " de Hetrusca
disciplina."
• i.:vi[rjjiin.
and the broken clay is the most enduring, perhaps
the only indestructible mark of hisproudest dwelling!
We had no time to visit more of the remains
which still exist of this once powerful town. Still
may be traced the Forum, the temple of Juno, many
of the gates, and the arx called Piazza d'Armi, situ-
ated a little higher than the rest of the town. In that
part of the Piazza d'Armi where antiquaries place
the temple of Juno, was found, in 1830, a piece of
marble of Roman times, but commemorative of the
family of Tarquitia. They were noted soothsayers
amongst the Etruscans, from whose books auguries
were taken down to the time of the Emperor
Julian's last war with the Persians.* It is sepul-
chral, and of the period of the Roman colony, when
the citadel was beyond the settlement—
M. SAENIO.
MARCELLO.
TAHQVITIA.
PHISCA.
VXOH.
Professor Nibby mentions an inscription which refers
to a statue of Tarquitius, destroyed by the fall of
the temple of Mars.
Nowhere can be found the Cuniculus of Camillus,
which terminated in the temple, and was probably
a small work, though so important in its results.
Close to the Via Vejentina is a mass of stone, which
was its probable situation. Besides these remains,
in a.d. 1820, Sir W. Gell found distinct traces of nine
* Pliny says that Tarquitius Priscus wrote a book " de Hetrusca
disciplina."
• i.:vi[rjjiin.