188 pltis-y's KATUBAL HISTOEY. [Book III. 
people, Graviscae\ Castrum novum^, Pyrgi^, tlie river Csere- 
tanus^, and Csere^ itself, four miles inland, called Agylla by 
the Pelasgi who founded it, Alsium^, Eregena^^, and the river 
Tiber, 284^ miles from the Macra. 
In the interior v^e have the colonies of Falisci^, founded by 
the Argives, according- to the account of Cato^^, and sur- 
named Falisci Etruscorum, Lucus Eeronise", Rusellana, the 
Senienses^^, and Sutrina^^. The remaining peoples are the 
Ansedonia was said to have risen from its ruins, and in its turn fallen to 
decay. 
1 Two localities have been mentioned as the site of Grraviscse, 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 Sahne, a mile south of the mouth of the 
Marta. Probably the latter are the remains of Grraviscse, although Den- 
nis (Etruria, i. pp. 387-395) inchnes to be in favour of the former. 
2 The modern Torre Chiaruccia, five miles south of Oivita Yecchia. 
3 The modern 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 Grreek word xaZpe "hail!" with which the inhabitants saluted the 
Tyrrhenian or Lydian invaders. It was to this place that the E-omans 
sent their most precious sacred rehcs when their city was taken by the 
Grauls. Its most interesting remains are the sepidchres, of wliich an ac- 
count is given in Dennis's Etruria. 
^ Its remams are to be seen in the vicinity of the modem village of Palo. 
^ 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. 
s This exceeds the real distance, which is about 230 mUes. 
^ The site of the Etruscan Falerii or Fahsci is probably occupied by the 
present Civita Oastellana ; while that of the Poman city of the same 
name, at a distance of four miles, is marked by a single house and the ruins 
of a chm^ch, called Santa Maria di Falleri. The ancient city was cap- 
tured by the Romans mider Camillus. 
In his book of " Origines," which is now lost. 
11 " Tlie Grrove of Eeronia." The town was so called from the grove 
of that Sabine goddess there situate. In the early times of Pome there 
was a great resort to tliis spot not only for religious purposes, but for 
those of trade as well. Its traces are still to be seen at the village of Saint 
Orestes, near the south-east extremity of the hill there, which is still called 
Eelonica. This is in southern Etruria, but Ptolemy mentions another 
place of the same name in the north-west extremity of Etrmda, between 
the Arnus and the Macra. 
12 The people of the spot now called Siena, in Tuscany, 
13 Now Sutri, on the river PozoLLo. 
