Etruria

The most important subdivision of central Italy was Latium, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea.

North of it on the same coast was Etruria, and to the south was Campania.

On the Adriatic coast were the Umbria, Pacinum, and Samnium.

The cities of Latium were Rome on the Tiber and its seaport, Ostia, near the north of the same river.

The Pomptine Marses were near the coast, in the southern part of Latium.

Lake Regulus was near Rome.

In Etruria were Florentia, Fusile, Pace, Arentium, Volatere, Clusium, Tarquiniae, also Lake Trasimenus.

In Campania were Capua, Neapolis, Naples, Curmae, Baiae, a watering place, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Capitum, Salernum, Cosilinum, and Nola.

He did really have very inferior numbers.

So if he was going to do the lay siege to Rome thing early on, he would have done it after the Battle of Trasimeno in 217, when he was in Etruria, and he was much closer to Rome.

He wasn't really interested in taking Rome.

He just wanted the Romans to stop.

And all you're doing when you come up with these theories is siding with some historians because historians ever since this period, the end of Republican Rome, have been arguing about who Catiline was and what was this conspiracy.

And did he really plan to sweep into Rome and have his followers kill a bunch of senators and the two consuls and light parts of Rome on fire and bring in an army from Etruria? There was an army, a couple thousand guys.

small but i mean it was there was all that you know true because what happens is cicero supposedly gets word in the middle of the night from crassus and crassus the richest man in the world or whatever has received a warning note from somebody who says you know you got to get out of town something's about to go down and uh you know you're going to be one of the first targets get out now and so crassus with a bunch of other people who supposedly receive similar warnings you know knocks on cicero's door at midnight wakes him up shows him the notes he runs down to the forum everybody convenes and he says this terrible thing's about to happen They end up, and this is one of the reasons why the story becomes important to later history, they end up scotching the whole deal in advance.

A note trying to get a Gallic tribe on the side of this rebellion that's coming is intercepted, and a bunch of the people supposedly involved in the plot, although not Catiline, including some rather upper-class Romans, are captured.

Cuando vino el incendio de Roma, ¿eh? Se gestó una conspiración contra Nerón, una de las tantas que hubo.

Eh, esa primera revuelta falló, [carraspeo] pero otros funcionarios se empeñaron En que había una, un arma sagrada que debía acabar con la vida de Nerón y ese era el puñal del templo de la salud en Etruria.

Y consiguieron dicho puñal, pero la revuelta que organizaron ya poseyendo ese puñal también fracasó.

Los sospechosos fueron torturados y alguien, uno de ellos, uno de los sospechosos, acusó falsamente [efecto sonoro] a Séneca.

He did really have very inferior numbers.

So if he was going to do the lay siege to Rome thing early on, he would have done it after the Battle of Trasimeno in 217 when he was in Etruria, and he was much closer to Rome.

He wasn't really interested in taking Rome.

He just wanted the Romans to stop.

Whatever may be the fact as to the use of marriage rings in the Bible days, Monkish legends relate that Joseph and Mary used one, and moreover, that it was of onyx or amethyst.

It was said to have been discovered in the year 996, when it was given by a jeweler from Jerusalem to a lapidary of Clusium, who had been sent to Rome by the wife of the Marquis of Etruria to make purchases for her.

The jeweler told the lapidary of the preciousness of the relic, but he despised it and kept it for several years among other articles of inferior value.

However, a miracle revealed to him its genuineness, and it was placed in a church, where it worked many curative wonders.

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For further information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater Volume 1, Chapter 3 Change of Air Dilexi decorem domus tuae That almost morbid religious idealism and his healthful love of the country were both alike developed by the circumstances of a journey which happened about this time, when Marius was taken to a certain temple of Aesculapius among the hills of Etruria, as was then usual in such cases, for the cure of some boyish sickness.

The religion of Aesculapius, though borrowed from Greece, had been naturalized in Rome in the old Republican times, but had reached under the Antonines the height of its popularity throughout the Roman world.

That was an age of valetudinarians, in many instances of imaginary ones.

Marius followed with the rest to the harbour, where the mystic ship, lowered from the shoulders of the priest, was loaded with as much as it could carry of the rich spices and other costly gifts offered in great profusion by the worshippers, and thus, launched at last upon the water, left the shore, crossing the harbour bar in the wake of a much stouter vessel than itself, with a crew of white-robed mariners, whose function it was, at the appointed moment, finally to desert it upon the open sea.

The remainder of the day was spent by most in parties on the water.

Flavian and Marius sailed further than they had ever done before to a wild spot on the bay, the traditional site of a little Greek colony, which, having had its eager, stirring life at the time when Etruria was still a power in Italy, had perished in the age of the civil wars.

In the absolute transparency of the air on this gracious day, an infinitude of detail from sea and shore reached the eye with sparkling clearness as the two lads sped rapidly over the waves.

The Etruscans had a very lively afterlife if their grave paintings are to be believed.

And of course, Etruria, where the Etruscans were, is Florence.

Florence is a relatively new place city and that it was founded by the romans in like about 100 bc after they'd killed all the etruscans so maybe the etruscans their vampire ancestors hid out some of them may have you know been in florence florence may have been meant as a garrison town to hunt vampires from who can say or you just have the vampires be undead medici that savonarola was not able to burn out when he was running things and they're still there but either way the The other thing that Florence will immediately invite you to think about is art heists, because there are between 72 and 80 major museums in Florence and God knows how many other things.

And these are all mostly in the little downtown area there.

That's not at the Uffizi as it transpires.

So, yeah, that's Knights Black Agents, Trail of Cthulhu, Lovecraft mentions a 12th century Florentine monk named Bartolomeo Corsi, who was possessed by the Ithians.

And in the very old folk, the cryptic towns of Etruria, which is to say Tuscany, hold elder secrets.

So, again, you can be based in Florence and going out.