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Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition (1892)

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · London, T. F. Unwin · leaf 70

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CHAPTER III. FERONIA. The Etruscan Feronia—the Dawn—is also the goddess of trade.—The Etruscans, by John Fraser. Vividi gaudens Feronia luco.—ViRGIL, Aineid, viii., 8oo. Ora manusque tua lavimus,Feronia, Ijnnpha.—Horace, Sat. i., v. 24. … HERE is a kind of argumentvery much in vogue amonghistorians of the Mommsenclass. It consists in pick-ing a small flaw in a legendor incident, or even offeringan unproved conjecture ofones own, as Mommsen does,and then boldly assuming fromit that all is false. No heedwhatever is taken of the…

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