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Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance (1922)

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Andersen, Ingeborg, 1887- · Oxford, Clarendon Press · leaf 46

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diseasefall upon any more of us. Mars ! Be satisfied, cruel Mars !Jump on to the threshold. Cease jumping. Help us,Mars ! * At the triumphs also, carmina incondita , as Livytells us, were sung (iv. 20. 2), and we venture to think thatEtruscan poetry was no better than this, and that the… … z o N 1—( o MJ HQ 5O[-( m z I—1 <; O TOMBADELLEISCRIZIONI 19 no great loss. Varro mentions tragedies in the Etruscanlanguage, but they were undoubtedly versions of the Greekones, eyen worse than those made for the Romans by LiviusAndronicus. Apart from some religious and a little his-torical…

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