Identifier: citiescemeterie02denn (find matches)
Title: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dennis, George, 1814-1898
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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SATYRS AND HARPY, FROM THE ETRUSCAN LAMP, CORTONA MUSEUM. CHAPTER LX. COETONA.—CORTONA. Corythum, terrasque requiratAusonias !—Virgil. Clara fuit Sparte ; magna? viguere Mycenae ; Vile solum Sparte est; alta? cecidere Mycenae.—Ovid. Traveller, thou art approaching Cortona ! Dost thou,reverence age—that fulness of years which, as Pliny says, inman is venerable, in cities sacred? Here is that which demandsthy reverence. Here is a city, compared to which Home is butof yesterday—to which most other cities of ancient renown arefresh and green. Thou mayst have wandered far and widethrough Italy—nothing hast thou seen more venerable thanCortona. Ere the days of Hector and Achilles, ere Troy itselfarose—Cortona was. On that bare and lofty height, whose
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