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tion found at that place, but which appears to have
been carried thither. I should mention, perhaps,
before leaving the subject of the ruins, that near
the Porta Portusa, on the present farm of Vac-
carreccia, there is a large tumulus, which, if not the
memorial of a battle, or erected to blockade the
city, is, probably, according to Gell, the monu-
ment of some king, and very likely either of Pro-
pertius the founder of the city, or of Morrio.
Servius tells us, that Propertius king of Etruria,
in common with the men of Capena, founded
Veii.
We talked long upon all that is known of the his-
tory of this celebrated town. It was not mentioned
by Virgil among the great cities in the days of
iEneas, and was not in the league, consequently
was not a place of note at that time, and must
have risen into power between the Trojan war
and the foundation of Rome. Like some of the
other towns, its inhabitants appear to have been a
mixture of Pelasgi and aborigines, or, as Miiller
thinks, of aborigines and Etruscans. It once had a
history, but the Etruscan annals being all destroyed
after the reign of Claudius, what now remains to us,
is the few notices scattered through the Greek and
Roman authors, and not easily put together. It is
said to have been founded by a king named Proper-
tius, to have had a king who established the Salian
dances in honour of Mars, and who had terraces made
upon a neighbouring mountain for the ceremony ;
a king Morrio, descended from Neptune by Alesius;
a king Tibris,from whom the Tiber received its name
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tion found at that place, but which appears to have
been carried thither. I should mention, perhaps,
before leaving the subject of the ruins, that near
the Porta Portusa, on the present farm of Vac-
carreccia, there is a large tumulus, which, if not the
memorial of a battle, or erected to blockade the
city, is, probably, according to Gell, the monu-
ment of some king, and very likely either of Pro-
pertius the founder of the city, or of Morrio.
Servius tells us, that Propertius king of Etruria,
in common with the men of Capena, founded
Veii.
We talked long upon all that is known of the his-
tory of this celebrated town. It was not mentioned
by Virgil among the great cities in the days of
iEneas, and was not in the league, consequently
was not a place of note at that time, and must
have risen into power between the Trojan war
and the foundation of Rome. Like some of the
other towns, its inhabitants appear to have been a
mixture of Pelasgi and aborigines, or, as Miiller
thinks, of aborigines and Etruscans. It once had a
history, but the Etruscan annals being all destroyed
after the reign of Claudius, what now remains to us,
is the few notices scattered through the Greek and
Roman authors, and not easily put together. It is
said to have been founded by a king named Proper-
tius, to have had a king who established the Salian
dances in honour of Mars, and who had terraces made
upon a neighbouring mountain for the ceremony ;
a king Morrio, descended from Neptune by Alesius;
a king Tibris,from whom the Tiber received its name
p