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[Fiddlstix]

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[Enterprise]

I heard they found the ancestral home of Chef Boyrdee.

[Verginius Rufus]

Great stuff. I hope they find the tomb also of Gaius Mucius, who tried to assassinate Porsena and showed his bravery, when he was caught, by putting his right hand into the fire. He got the nickname Scaevola ("Lefty") as a result.

[claudiustg]

So, this Lars Porsena was a corrupt Dem power broker, that tried to muscle in on the Republicans in Rome, but they were to strong for him and pushed him back out to the periphery.

[Cicero]

I
LARS Porsena of Clusium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Nine Gods he swore it,
And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth,
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array.


II

East and west and south and north
The messengers ride fast,
And tower and town and cottage
Have heard the trumpet’s blast.
Shame on the false Etruscan
Who lingers in his home,
When Porsena of Clusium
Is on the march for Rome.


. . . . Horatius put a stop to that!

[SunkenCiv]

Ooooh. Thanks for the ping! The description of Lars' tomb, though ancient and eyewitness testimony, is generally considered to be an exaggeration. But General Consideration often leads the troops away from the action. :')

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[Ptarmigan]

Interesting. I know the Roman Empire was first estbalished in 753 BC. I heard that the Romans came from the Etruscans originally. Some say Basque is related to Etruscan language.

[SunkenCiv]

Clusium
LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia
© 2003, 2004 LoveToKnow

It was according to Roman tradition one of the oldest cities of Etruria and indeed of all Italy, and, if Camars (the original name of the town, according to Livy) is rightly connected with the Camertes Umbri, its foundation would go back to pre-Etruscan times... The chief interest of the place lies in its extensive necropolis, which surrounds the city on all sides... The most remarkable group of tombs is, however, that of Poggio Gaiella, 3 m. to the N., where the hill is honeycombed with chambers in three storeys (now, however, much ruined and inaccessible), partly connected by a system of passages, and supported at the base by a stone wall which forms a circle and not a squarea fact which renders impossible its identification with the tomb of Porsena, the description of which Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxxvi. 91) has copied from Varro... A conception of the size of the whole necropolis may be gathered from the fact that nearly three thousand Etruscan inscriptions have come to light from Clusium and its district alone, while the part of Etruria north of it as far as the Arno has produced barely five hundred. Among the later tombs bilingual inscriptions are by no means rare, and both Etruscan and Latin inscriptions are often found in the same cemeteries, showing that the use of the Etruscan language only died out gradually.

[farmfriend]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[whence911]

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