Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Tarquinii

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(Etrusc Turchina). Now Corneto; a city of Etruria, situated on the river Marta. It was one of the twelve cities of the Etruscan League (see Etruria, p. 625), and was said to have been founded by one Tarchon, the brother of Tyrrhenus, who led the Lydian colony from Asia to Italy (Strabo, p. 219; Serv. ad Verg. Aen. x. 179Verg. Aen., 198). Near this place the seer Tages (q.v.) first appeared. After Tarquinius Superbus was driven from Rome the people of Tarquinii gave him aid against the Romans, but were defeated by them (Livy, ii. 6; Dionys. v. 14). Some very interesting Etruscan paintings exist in the numerous caves on the hill at Corneto, which was the cemetery of the ancient city.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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