[98] Thulin, Pauly-Wissowa, vii. 2434.

[99] The best summary view of the Etruscan civilization is still to be found in Ottfried Müller, Die Etrusker, in the second edition by Deecke.

[100] Cp. for the well-appointed table Plautus’s description of a liberal host (Menaechmi 102): ‘tantas struices concinnat patinarias.’

[101] Walther Riezler, Weissgründige attische Lekythen, pl. 70.

[102] It is to be observed that the Etruscans thrust with the sword; this also the Romans inherited; whereas the Gauls cut and the Iberians thrust as well as cut. Polybius ii. 33. 6, and iii. 114.

[103] Cp. Beazley, Lewes House Collection of Gems, p. 38, 74 f.

[104] Herodotus i. 167.

[105] Livy vii. 15. 10; 19. 3.

[106] Plutarch, Themistocles 13.

[107] Körte, Jahrbuch des archäol. Instit. xii. 1897, p. 58 ff.