Ltruscans, Tyrrhenians or Tuscans. 178 
The following is a translation of it by Dr. Johnson, ‘‘Let 
not sleep, (says Pythagoras,) fallupon thine eye till thou hast 
thrice reviewed the transactious of the past day, Where have 
I turned aside from rectitude ? What have I been doing? 
What have I left undone which I ought to havedone? Begin 
thus from the first act and proceed 3 and in conclusion at the 
ill which thou has done be troubled, and rejoice at the good.” 
The inference which the interlocutor in Plutarch draws 
from similarity of doctrines does not seem to be conclusive, 
Pythagorus and the Etruscans may have drawn from a come 
mon sourcc—and that probably was Chaldean, Pythagorus 
{whose birth is with great probability fixed at not earlier than 
the year 600 before the Christian ara by Mr. Freret, Acad; 
d’inse. et belles Lettres, Vol. XIV:) was perfectly master of 
the Chaldean as well as of the Egyptian Philosophy and Re- 
ligion. The Governments which he established were highly 
aristocratice Butthere do not remain sufficient vestiges either 
of his institutions or of those of the Etruscans, to enable us 
to compare them as well with each other as with those of the 
Egyptians and Chaldeans, 
The most antient name of the earthis 4i and 4ia. Thus 
we find the oldest Greek word to be Guia, subsequently Ge, 
The termination a. being a contraction of these two words 
is still preserved in the names of many plaees as Mesopotamia, 
Gallicia, &c. &e. 
The Sun the great object of worship in these antient 
times is seldom mentioned without an epithet, or some 
appellative of that supposed deity. What the import of the 
word Rha is, f dont know and to ascertain it would require a 
knowledge of oriental Ictters. Rasena then probably imports 
the land of the Sun with some accompanying epithet or 
attribute. 
There are many reasons to induce t.s to believe that the t: 
im Rhoeti was pronounced like an, and then the two first 
syllables of Rasena correspond with the common name of 
their Rhectian ancestors, Let the following passages of Vir- 
gil 
