Etruscan Tomb Paintings, Their Subjects and Significance

by Frederik Poulsen

[68] Cp. Vilh. Thomsen, Remarques sur la parenté de la langue étrusque, Bulletin de l’Académie royale de Danemark, 1899, no. 4, p. 391.

[69] De agricultura 76 and 86.

[70] Cp. Plautus, Pseudolus 158 ‘te cum securi caudicali praeficio provinciae.’

[71] Cp. Seneca, Epist. 114. 26 ‘adspice culinas nostras et concursantis inter tot ignes coquos.’

[72] Footstools were also used in Rome for mounting the high couches. Varro, De lingua Latina v. 168.

[73] i. e. slaves made free by his will, and entitled to wear the cap of liberty.

[74] Strabo vi. p. 410 (= Ephorus, fragm. 2 in Müller, Fragmenta historic. graec. i. p. 246). The ingenious etymologist Philochorus even derived the word ‘tyrant’ from Tyrrhenians (Philoch. fragm. 5 in Müller, op. cit.).

[75] Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum,³ 305, with note 1.

[76] Polybius ii. 17. Livy v. 33. 7-8.

[77] Origines 62.