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CIVITA CASTELLANA.
245
with that tell us, the Roman children were wont to be
instructed in the Tuscan letters in those days, as they
are now in Greek. But it is more probable that this
gentleman had some special accomplishment, or else he
would not in so bold a manner have hazarded himself
amongst the enemy. His only companion is said to have
been his servant, that had been bred up with him, and
so not ignorant of the language. In their journey, they
made it their main business to get, in a summary way,
the nature of the province they were going into, and the
names of the chief persons therein, that when they fell into
discourse they might not be taken tardy in any gross
ignorance or mistake. They went in shepherds' habits,
armed with the usual weapons of country boors, each
of them with a falchion and two javelins 5 yet was it
not their tongue, their garb, or their arms, that kept
them from being known; so much as that presumption
the enemy had, that no stranger would be so mad as to
venture into the Ciminian woods. Well, forwards they
went as far as to the Camertines in Umbria, where the
Roman adventured to discover who they were, and being
admitted into the senate they obtained promises of alli-
ance and assistance. The consul hesitated no longer what
measures to pursue: he attacked the enemy in their fast-
nesses, and having completely routed them returned to
the camp, where by that time were arrived five commis-
saries and two tribunes of the commons, with peremp-
tory orders from the senate to the consul, that he should
not offer to pass through the Ciminian forest.”
Such was formerly the solitary and uncultivated con-
dition of a large portion of this romantic district, and
245
with that tell us, the Roman children were wont to be
instructed in the Tuscan letters in those days, as they
are now in Greek. But it is more probable that this
gentleman had some special accomplishment, or else he
would not in so bold a manner have hazarded himself
amongst the enemy. His only companion is said to have
been his servant, that had been bred up with him, and
so not ignorant of the language. In their journey, they
made it their main business to get, in a summary way,
the nature of the province they were going into, and the
names of the chief persons therein, that when they fell into
discourse they might not be taken tardy in any gross
ignorance or mistake. They went in shepherds' habits,
armed with the usual weapons of country boors, each
of them with a falchion and two javelins 5 yet was it
not their tongue, their garb, or their arms, that kept
them from being known; so much as that presumption
the enemy had, that no stranger would be so mad as to
venture into the Ciminian woods. Well, forwards they
went as far as to the Camertines in Umbria, where the
Roman adventured to discover who they were, and being
admitted into the senate they obtained promises of alli-
ance and assistance. The consul hesitated no longer what
measures to pursue: he attacked the enemy in their fast-
nesses, and having completely routed them returned to
the camp, where by that time were arrived five commis-
saries and two tribunes of the commons, with peremp-
tory orders from the senate to the consul, that he should
not offer to pass through the Ciminian forest.”
Such was formerly the solitary and uncultivated con-
dition of a large portion of this romantic district, and