188 Flint's natueal histoey. [Book m. 



people, G-raviscse^ Castnun novum^, Pyrgi', the river Caere- 

 tanus"*, and Csere^ itself, four miles inland, called Agylla by 

 the Pelasgi who founded it, Alsium®, Fregenae^, and the river 

 Tiber, 284^ miles from the Macra. 



In the interior we have the colonies of Falisci', founded by 

 the Argives, according to the account of Cato^°, and sur- 

 named Falisci Etruscorum, Lucus Feroniae", Eusellana, the 

 Senienses^^, and Sutrina^^. The remaining peoples are the 



Ansedonia was said to have risen from its ruins, and in its turn fallen to 



^ Two localities have been mentioned as the site of Graviscse, at both 

 of which there are ancient remains : one on the right bank of the Marta, 

 about a mile from its mouth, and the other on the sea-coast at a spot 

 called Santo Clementino or Le Saline, a mile south of the mouth of the 

 Marta. Probably the latter are the remains of Graviscse, although Den- 

 nis (Etruria, i. pp. 387-395) incUnes to be in favour of the former. 



2 The modem Torre Chiaruccia, five miles south of Civita Vecchia. 



3 The modem Torre di Santa Severa. "• Now the Vaccina. 



' The remains of this once powerful city are marked by the village of 

 Cervetri or Old Caere. According to Strabo it received its name from 

 the Greek word x«'Pf "hail!" with which the inhabitants saluted the 

 Tyrrhenian or Lydian invaders. It was to this place that the Komans 

 sent their most precious sacred reUcs when their city was taken by the 

 dauls. Its most interesting remains are the sepulchres, of which an ac- 

 count is given in Dennis's Etruria. 



6 Its remains are to be seen in the vicinity of the inodem village of Palo. 



7 Its site is supposed to have been at the spot now called the Torre di 

 Maccarese, midway between Palo and Porto, and at the mouth of the 

 river Arone. Its situation was marshy and unhealthy. 



8 This exceeds the real distance, which is about 230 miles. 



^ The site of the Etruscan Falerii or Fahsci is probably occupied by the 

 present Civita CasteUana ; while that of the Roman city of the same 

 name, at a distance of fom* miles, is marked by a single house and the ruins 

 of a church, called Santa Maria di FaUeri. The ancient city was cap- 

 tured by the Romans under CamiUus. 



I'* In his book of " Origines," which is now lost. 



1^ " The Grove of Feronia." The town was so called from the grove 

 of that Sabine goddess there situate. In the early times of Rome there 

 was a great resort to this spot not only for religious purposes, but for 

 those of trade as weU. Its traces are stUl to be seen at the vUlage of Saint 

 Orestes, near the south-east extremity of the hiU there, which is still called 

 Felonica. This is in southern Etruria, but Ptolemy mentions another 

 place of the same name in the north-west extremity of Etruria, between 

 the Amus and the Macra. 



12 The people of the spot now called Siena, in Tuscany. 



*3 Now Sutri, on the river PozoUo. 



