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Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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her of Tarquin theElder, must have been. (Mus6e Kapolean III., explanation of pi. i.xxx.) (The tomb hererepresented on the plate is very similar to that now in the Briti.sh Museum.) Let us note thattill-Etruscans interred their dead, ami did not burn them: the contrary was 1 lie ease in thelater times of the republic and under the empire, (or rather both customs prevailed.—/irf.) ^ See the work of JI. Noel des Vergers, Vtitrurie et //•■■< Efnt^qucs ou di.v ans de fouillesdant leg Maremnws /oscanes. Varro (de Linr/. Lat., iv. 9), speaks of Etruscan tragedies wliieliare lost. AVe have nearly two thousand inscriptions, but we caimot understand them, and MaxMiiller, in his Science of Lan;/uai/e, is obliged to pa.«s over the lOtruscan in silence. Theinterpretations of Corsscn, who (thought tlie laiigua^ro Indo-European, and) was for a timecalUil tlio (Ivlipus of the Etruscan Spliinx. liavc been aliandoncd, and (he Sphinx remainsmule (till we find a bilingiuil text.—7iV7.) Ib^
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