PART I.
ALBAN ROME.
CHAPTER I.
EARLIEST ITALY AND LATIUM.
Italy, from the earliest times, whether by its intrinsic beauty, or by its high serviceableness, attracted towards itself tribe after tribe from the north-west and north. Hence, at the highest period to which we can ascend, a great variety of population existed on the soil; and the pressure of migration seems generally to have been southward. What enthusiasm for Italy her "fatal beauty" is apt to excite in English visitors, we all know: more remarkable is it, that the ancient historian Dionysius[1], a Greek who had surveyed the
- ↑ Dion. i. 36. Compare Spalding's Italy, vol. i. p. 29, etc.
