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a district which begins at the river Macra, and has often 
changed its name. At an early period the Umbri were ex- 
pelled from it by the Pelasgi ; and these again by the Lydians, 
who from a king of theirs^ were named Tyrrheni, but after- 
wards, from the rites observed in their sacrifices, were called, 
in the Grreek language^, Tusci. The first town in Etruria is 
Luna^, with a noble harbour, then the colony of Luca^, 
at some distance from the sea, and nearer to it again the 
colony of Pisae'^, between the rivers Auser^and Arnus'', which 
owes its origin to Pelops and the Pisans^, or else to the Teu- 
tani, a people of Grreece. Next is Vada^ Volaterrana, then 
the river Cecinna^^, and Populonium" formerly belonging 
to the Etrurians, the only town they had on this coast. 
Next to these is the river Prile^^, then the Umbro^^, which is 
navigable, and where the district of Umbria begins, the port 
of Telamon^^, Cosa^^ of the Volcientes, founded by the Eoman 
^ For an account of this see Herodotus, B. i. c. 94, Tacitus, Ann. B. iv. 
c. 55, and Yelleius Paterculus, B. i. c. 1. These writers all agree as to the 
fact of the migration of a colony of Lydians under the conduct of Tyr- 
rhenus to the part of Italy afterwards called Etruria. This subject how- 
ever, as well as the migrations of the Pelasgi, is involved in. the greatest 
obscurity. 
2 From the Grreek verb Oveiv " to sacrifice," he imphes : — from their 
custom of frequently sacrificing, says Servius, on the Xth Book of 
the ^neid. Dionysius of Hahcarnassus says that they were from their 
frequent sacrifices called Ovoctkoou These are probably fanciftil deriva- 
tions ; but there is no doubt that the people of Etruria were for several 
centuries the instructors of the Romans in the arts of sacrifice, augury, 
and divination. 
2 The ruins of Luna, which was destroyed by the Normans in the 
middle ages, are stiU visible on the banks of the Magra. The modern 
name of the port is Grolfo deUa Spezzia. 
4 The modem city of Lucca has its site and name. — Livy, B. xli. c. 13, 
informs us that this colony was founded in the year of the city 576, during 
the Consulship of Claudius Pulcher and Sempronius Grracchus. 
5 The modern city of Pisa. See Yirgil, B. x. 1. 179, as to the origin 
of this place. ^ The modem Serchio. 7 Now the Arno. 
® The people of Pisa or Pisse, a city of EUs in the Peloponnesus. 
^ Now Yadi, a small village on the sea-shore. 
10 Still called the Cecina. It entered the Tyrrhenian sea, near the 
port of Yada Yolaterrana just mentioned. 
" The present Piombino is supposed to have arisen from the ruins of 
this place. Now the Bruno. r£\^Q modem Ombrone. 
1* Now known as Telamone Yecchio. 
15 There are ruins near lake Orbitello, which bear the name of Cosa ; 
