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 326 STRABO. CASAUB. 219. extends in length as far as Campania and the Saninitic moun- tains. The country of the Sabini lies between the Latini and the Ombrici, it likewise extends to the Saninitic moun- tains, but approaches nearer to the Apennines inhabited by the Vestini, the Peligni, and the Marsi. The Ombrici lie between the country of the Sabini and Tyrrhenia, but extend beyond the mountains as far as Ariminum, 1 and Ravenna. The Tyrrheni, commencing from their own sea and the Tiber, extend to the circular chain of mountains which stretches from Liguria to the Adriatic. We will now enter into a detailed account, commencing with these. 2. The Tyrrheni have now received from the Romans the surname of Etrusci and Tusci. The Greeks thus named them from Tyrrhenus the son of Atys, as they say, who sent hither a-colonyTrom Lydia. Atys, who was one of the descendants of Hercules and Omphale, and had two sons, in a time of famine and scarcity determined by lot that Lydus should re- main in the country, but that Tyrrhenus, with the greater part of the people, should depart. Arriving here, he named the country after himself, Tyrrhenia, and founded twelve cities, having appointed as their governor Tarcon, from whom the city of Tarquinia [received its name], and who, on account of the sagacity which he had displayed from child- hood, was feigned to have been born with hoary hair. Placed originally under one authority, they became flourishing ; but it seems that in after-times, their confederation being broken up and each city separated, they yielded to the violence of the neighbouring tribes. Otherwise they would never have abandoned a fertile country for a life of piracy on the sea, roving from one ocean to another ; since, when united they were able not only to repel those who assailed them, but to act on the offensive, and undertake long campaigns. After fa~' the founjda^p^i^f^p^eiJDejnaratus arrived here, bringing with him people^ from^Corinth. 2 He was received at Tar- quinia, where he had_a_son, named Lucumo, by a woman of that country. 3 Lucumo becoming the friend ~of Ancus Mar- 1 Rimini. 2 Larcher calculates that it was about the year of Rome 91, or 663 years before the Christian era, that Demaratus, flying from the tyranny of Cypselus at Corinth, established himself in Tyrrhenia. 3 Strabo here mentions only one son of Demaratus, to whom he gives