Etruscan Tomb Paintings, Their Subjects and Significance

by Frederik Poulsen

[88] Dionys. Halic. ii. 8, 10.

[89] Livy iv. 18. 8. Cp. ix. 29. 2, where the Etruscans are described as the most dangerous enemies of the Romans.

[90] Livy iv. 37. 1-2.

[91] Livy v. 22. 8.

[92] Livy xxvii. 21. 6; 38. 6.

[93] Livy xxviii. 45. 14-18.

[94] Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus 8.

[95] As a punishment because the country had joined the party of Marius. Plutarch, Marius 41.

[96] Cicero, Pro Milone 26, 74, 87.

[97] ii. 1. 29. The later authors speak of nothing but the corpulency and imbecility of the Etruscans. Catullus, Carm. 39. 21. Virgil, Georg. ii. 193; Aen. xi. 732. Diodorus v. 40.