How To Use Etruria In A Sentence
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[_Detlefsen_: quae _codd_] in Etruria factitata sint non est dubium. deorum tantum putarem ea fuisse, ni Metrodorus Scepsius, cui cognomen
The Last Poems of Ovid
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But Etruscanists are also generally aware that caru is a transitive participle meaning 'made'; tezan means 'cippus' see Paleoglot: The Etruscan word 'tezan'; tesnś is a declined form of tesiam ~ tesian 'sacrifice'; teiś is the directive form of ta 'that, the'; and Raśneś is likewise the directive form of Raśna 'Etruria'.
Ipa ama hen
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Nepos says that if the rebels in Etruria are as serious as we make out, Pompey himself should be brought home to deal with them.
CONSPIRATA
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Even there however, I'd argue that it's functioning as an unmarked noun in the accusative case Rasna hilar "protecting Etruria".
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna
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The system of this kind of superstition had been principally developed by the ancient Etruscans, and the haruspices engaged in the state religion of the Romans were generally natives of Etruria; and the Romans, owing to the uncertainty of their knowledge of things divine, dreaded this kind of superstition rather than practised it.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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I came across this while reopening the case concerning the etymology of Arretium, a town in NE Etruria, which I can confidently say is unanalysable in the Etruscan language, despite Arretium being purportedly founded by the Etruscans themselves... but this is a slightly separate issue.
Minoans, Greeks, the Po Valley and Arretium
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A peace had been concluded between the two nations on these terms, that the river Albula, now called Tiber, should be the common boundary between the Etrurians and Latins.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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The Vatican Museums also exhibit objects from aan ancient land called Etruria.
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From Etruria was introduced the art of the haruspices, or soothsayers, which consisted in discovering the divine mind by the appearance of victims slain for the sacrifices.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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So it seems reasonable to presume that, where it regards the specialty of divination, notoriously considered Etruscan by even fellow Romans who employed Etruscan haruspices, there should be few if any xenonyms for the native Etrurian pantheon.
Archive 2009-07-01
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In the land of Nebbia, the mistiest part of Etruria, it was the month of Agnosto, when anything can happen, and Melliflua was pondering what to do about the fauns.
Melliflua and the Fauns
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His veterans were settled on confiscated land (especially in Campania and Etruria) as guarantors of his order.
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Its smooth shiny finish recalls the fine black slipware of ancient Etruria, while the globular body and pronounced lip recall Apulian geometric pottery.
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Arriving at Telamon, in Etruria, and coming ashore, he proclaimed freedom for the slaves; and many of the countrymen, also, and shepherds thereabouts, who were already freemen, at the hearing his name flocked to him to the sea-side.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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This winding path is yet again an otherworldly symbolism and is related to the reason why ancient inscriptions in Etruria and in the Aegean area were sometimes written in a boustrophedon or spiral pattern.
Archive 2009-03-01
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But Louis II of Etruria never reigned: The experimental monarchy didn't work.
Sovereignty and the Pitiless Passage of Time
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'In (a) slela (the) cippus (was) made for (the) fuśil of the sacrifice to the Etruria which is forth.'
Ipa ama hen
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The Vatican Museums also exhibits exhibit objects from an ancient land called Etruria.
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The Vatican Museums also exhibit objects from an ancient land called Etruria.
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Apart from the traditional magistracies, his only posts were those of imperial legate in Italy (an innovation of Hadrian), in his case in Etruria and Umbria, where he owned land, and proconsul of Asia.
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Celer rushed away from Rome, fearing vengeance, and did not rest until he had reached the limits of Etruria, and that his name became the synonym for quickness, so that men swift of foot were called _Celeres_ by the Romans, just as we still speak of "celerity," meaning rapidity of motion.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
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Etruria Pottery, formerly operated by Messrs. Ott & Brewer, now known as the Cook Pottery Company, the mark used on Belleek ware was a crescent bearing the name with the initials of the proprietors, "O. & B.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
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And withal it is to be remarked, that, conform to the doctrine of the ancient Etrurians, the manubes, for so did they call the darting hurls or slinging casts of the Vulcanian thunderbolts, did only appertain to her and to Jupiter her father capital.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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In the mean time many prodigies were announced; the greater part of which were little credited or even slighted, because individuals were the reporters of them, and also because, the Etrurians being now at war with them, they had no aruspices through whom they might attend to them.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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The second day the sun rose on the shores of many-isled Greece, and shed its rays over Etruria and Rome, and ere it set, temples and palaces were flooded with beauty.
Fra Bartolommeo
