The Topography of Rome and Its Vicinity (2)
by Sir William Gell (9781150318924)

Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: Saunders and Otley Subjects: Campagna di Roma (Italy) History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / Italy Travel / Europe / Italy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ON THE HISTORY AND LANGUAGES ANCIENT ITALY. HISTORY. Notwithstanding the scepticism with which many regard the anciently received accounts of the emigration of the Grecian Pelasgi to Italy, the observations made whilst collecting materials for the Map that accompanies this work, appear strongly corroborative of their truth. " No one can tell," says Dionysius, " who inhabited the country before the Siculi;" but there seems no doubt that tribes of greater numerical force, or rendered more powerful by superior civilization, arriving from the north, drove out these primaeval proprietors, and possessed themselves of their territory. The Umbrians, or O/iflpnt, who occupied Umbria in the centre of Italy, were considered by Pliny, Florus, and others, as the most ancient of all the Italian nations; but they are said by Solinus and Isidorus to have derived their stock from the ancient Gauls. Their language seems to have retained for many ages some admixture of Gallic words, and it is certain that their cities had anciently names quite different from those they bore at even an early period of history. Clusium, for instance, was called Gamers. The Umbrians were at one time so powerful, that, according to Pliny, they had three hundred towns in the region afterwards called Etruria. Strabo says the Sabines were a most ancient and indigenous race, iraXawrarov Koi avrodovef. Now, as the Sabines came from Amiternum, their country must have been included i...

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