168 Andrew Stuart on the ancient 
Ancient Etruria was traversed from east to west by theAr- 
no dividing it into two nearly equal parts, whereof one ex- 
tended almost to the gates of Rome, aud the other, bounded 
by Liguria, embraced a portion of the Genovese state, the 
valley of Magra and the old duchy of Carara and Lucca with 
sts territory, 
Perugia and Eugubio belonged to the Etruscans. 
The people who inhabited this country were called by the 
Romans Etrusci & Tusci; by the Greeks Tyrrhenians: in theiz 
own language the general name of the nation was Rasena. 
They spoke the same language as the Rheeti, the ancient 
inhabitants of the Trentin, and the Tyrol comprizing that por- 
tion of the Alps through which flows the ancient Athesis 
(Pin, IE. 24. Tit. Liv, v. 33.) 
Upon these mountaineers first gaining a footing in Italy, 
the Rhoetian tide of emigration stopped at the northern bank 
of the Po, where they built two towns Mantua and Adria. 
The strong situation of the former of these towns enabled its 
inhabitants to resist the Gauls, and as it communicated with 
Rhetia, the Etruscans long maintained themselves in the 
country situated between the Po and the Adige, 
The Etruscans soon extended their conqueststo the south 
of the Po, and obtained. possession ofthe whole country, 
from the Po to the Appenine Mountains, driving from it the 
old inkabitaats, the Umbri, and destroying 300 of their cities. 
Mr. Freret (Mem. del’Acad. des Inse. et Belles Lettres, 
T. XXIII, p. 93,) very ingeniously fixes the period of 
this irraption and settlement. Varro in a passage eited by 
Censorinus, informs us that the Etrascans gave the name of 
an age to spaces of time of unequal duration and measurect 
by the lives of particular individuals, The first of their ages 
was accounted from the foundation of the city or the estas 
blishment of the state—it Jasted till the death of the survi- 
vor of all the citizens bora on that day. At his death a new 
age 
