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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Phoenicinn Cup fdiiiui at Praeneste. Up a route towards the lucuniomes of tlu Vulturnus. The Greeks the objects whicli compose this tieasure differ zreatly Ijnth from Etruscan and from Greek art.They recull, bv their oriental stamp, other finds made in Cyprus or Greece. Our patera i.s animitation of the Efryplian. The centre is filled witli a war scene. A prince is in the act ofputtinnto death some captives. )5efore liim .stands the pod Horns: behind a warrior in arms,who Ijrings other victims. Above, a sparrow-lniwk witli outspread wings. The border is filledwith symbolic scenes. Four sacred barks are .symmetrically disposed: on two of them is the.scarabseeus, symbol of the sun and immortality : in the two others .some di\ iuity. lietweeii the.ships are thickets of lotus and a woman who is nursing a boy. Two circles of hieroglyphic v\Titing are round these .scenes: Imt the wliuli is coarselyiinilalfd : thf liiiTou-lviilis Ivh no sen.se. c^
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MILITAKY UISTUKV Ul KUJIK FROM 4y-3 TU 4-Jl. 183 of tainpauia saw ^\ith terror the pre2:)arations iov tliis new hwd-siou, and, to pre\oiit it, they t-ame to the help of the J.atiueitie:? whieh Avere resistuig the Etruscans. Arioia, which hasbequeathed its name tn tlu (licturesque villai!,e of Laricia on thesouthern slopes of the Alban Mount, near the charming lake ofXemi, Avas then the most tloiuishing city in Latinm. It had re-sisted Tar(.(uin Superbus, and when the son of the kin.u of Clusiiuii,Aruns, appeared before its walls Avith a powerful army, theiulrabitauts met him braAcly in the field AAith their (.atni andGreek allies. Ibit they were unable to AA-ithstand the chargc ofthe Etruscan phalanx, and they Avere already retiring in disorder.■when the men of Cuiuie, by a skilful niaueeuAre, charging theeneiUA in the rear, changed his Aietory into d(>feat. Aruns Avasslain, and there arc shown near Laricia, the ruins of a tomb,built in the Etruscan manner, AAhere they aUege th

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