Example sentences for: etruscan

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  • Ernout and Meillet, in their delightful Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine , urbanely review several rather far-fetched possibilities including LMN—well, it is a series—and elephas (elephant), but conclude with a shrug of their shoulders and a suggestion that the word might have come from Etruscan.

  • Only some wall fragments remain of the former Etruscan stronghold in Fiesole itself, but there are extensive Roman ruins, including a well-preserved amphitheater dating to 100 b.c.   — still in use for summertime festivals — which seats 2,500 spectators.

  • Head out of the piazza just north of the Ospedale in the direction of Via della Colonna and the Museo Archeologico, whose important collection of ancient Egyptian, Greek and Etruscan art make it an interesting alternative to Renaissance overload.

  • After defeats by Greeks in the south, Latins in the center, and Gallic invaders in the north, the Etruscan empire faded in the fourth century b.c.

  • The largest collection of Etruscan art in Italy can be found in the 16th-century Villa Giulia in the northwest area of the Villa Borghese park.


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