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HETRURIA

Volume 10 · 57 words · 1815 Edition

and ETRURIA, a celebrated country of Italy, to the west of the Tyber. It originally contained 12 different nations, which had each their respective monarch. Their names were Veientes, Clusini, Perusini, Cortonenses, Arretini, Vetuloni, Volaterrani, Rulellani, Volsinii, Tarquini, Falisci, and Caeretani. The inhabitants were particularly famous for their superstition and strict confidence in omens, dreams, auguries, HEW