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102 VEH.
a treaty which was not kept, in whatever way we may
count the years. The inhabitants of the ceded portion
were admitted to citizenship, though not allowed to
vote. Tarquinius Priscus, when he divided the peo-
ple into thirty tribes, gave a family name to each, ex-
cept the Veientian. Servius Tullius was engaged in
war with the Veientians, probably to keep the Sep-
tem Pagi; and Tarquinius Superbus gained over them
such signal victories that they were forced to acknow-
ledge his superiority, and to be forward in the homage
paid him by many other cities of Etruria, viz. present-
ing to him an ivory throne, a sceptre, a golden erown,
and a triumphal robe. The assignment of these
things as the attributes of rank and power is very
ancient amongst mankind, and the symbols of kingly
dignity remain the same now that they were 2,300
years ago, amongst that people upon whose dust we
were then reposing. Will any one walk over our dust
2,300 years hence, and perhaps curiously lionising
the ruins of London, talk of our British customs,and
find that their ways are the same as ours were 1 The
Roman senate decreed these same articles to Por-
senna when he granted them peace, therefore it is
probable that what came from Etruria was returned
to it again. Porsenna having conquered the Septem
Pagi, restored them to Rome, they were again re-
conquered, and seem not to have come any more
under Roman dominion so long as Veii existed.
The next thing we hear of is the war of a.r. 271,
which lasted with intermissions for nine years, dur-
ing which time the Romans once established them-
selves on the Cremera, near the very gates of Veii,
a treaty which was not kept, in whatever way we may
count the years. The inhabitants of the ceded portion
were admitted to citizenship, though not allowed to
vote. Tarquinius Priscus, when he divided the peo-
ple into thirty tribes, gave a family name to each, ex-
cept the Veientian. Servius Tullius was engaged in
war with the Veientians, probably to keep the Sep-
tem Pagi; and Tarquinius Superbus gained over them
such signal victories that they were forced to acknow-
ledge his superiority, and to be forward in the homage
paid him by many other cities of Etruria, viz. present-
ing to him an ivory throne, a sceptre, a golden erown,
and a triumphal robe. The assignment of these
things as the attributes of rank and power is very
ancient amongst mankind, and the symbols of kingly
dignity remain the same now that they were 2,300
years ago, amongst that people upon whose dust we
were then reposing. Will any one walk over our dust
2,300 years hence, and perhaps curiously lionising
the ruins of London, talk of our British customs,and
find that their ways are the same as ours were 1 The
Roman senate decreed these same articles to Por-
senna when he granted them peace, therefore it is
probable that what came from Etruria was returned
to it again. Porsenna having conquered the Septem
Pagi, restored them to Rome, they were again re-
conquered, and seem not to have come any more
under Roman dominion so long as Veii existed.
The next thing we hear of is the war of a.r. 271,
which lasted with intermissions for nine years, dur-
ing which time the Romans once established them-
selves on the Cremera, near the very gates of Veii,