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Modern scholars attempt to explain the name more scientifically as being based on a word meaning `river,' or on an Etruscan name.
Resentment surfaced when former Etruscan or Greek cities such as Capua, Syracuse, and Taranto supported Hannibal’s invasion in 218 b.c.
Today, the paintings and sculptures found in its necropolis of over 5,700 tombs provide fascinating evidence of the brilliant Etruscan civilization for archeology buffs.
Perugia’s antiquity is symbolized on the north side of town by the lovingly preserved Arco Etrusco (Etruscan — and partly Roman — triumphal arch) that was incorporated into its medieval ramparts.
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.