[304] Parentalia, p. 359.
[305] Herodotus; Diodorus; Pliny; Plutarch; Arrian; Quintus Curtius; Prideaux; Rollin; Maundrell; Stackhouse; Wren; Shaw; Gibbon; Robertson; Drummond; Buckingham.
[306] Eustace.
[307] The situation of Veii has caused some great disputes among the antiquaries; but it seems now to be very satisfactorily placed at L’Isola Farnese, about twelve miles from Rome, not far from La Storta, the first post on the road to Perugia. In the time of Propertius the town had ceased to exist.
Nunc intra muros pastoris buccina lenti Cantat, et in vestris ossibus arva metunt.
And Florus says of the city; “Who now recollects that it existed? What remains and vestige of it are there? It requires the utmost stretch of our faith in history, to believe that Veii existed.”—(Lib. i. c. 12). Eutropius calls it eighteen miles from Rome, (lib. i. c. 4 and 19); but Pliny (lib. xv. c. ult.), and Suetonius (Galba 1), if compared together, make it only half the distance; and Dionysius, (Antiq. lib. ii.) expressly places it at the distance of one hundred stadia, or twelve miles. The Peutingerian table does the same.—Burton.
[308] Liv. v. 21; Sueton. in Neron. 39.
[309] Livy; Eustace; Gell.
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