The Etruscans or Tyrrhenians represented Hercules the Great Merchant in a kilt, and this seemingly was a _tar_tan or French _tiretaine_. Speaking of certain figures unearthed at Tarchon, Dennis remarks: "The drapery of the couches is particularly worthy of notice, being marked with stripes of different colours crossing each other as in the Highland plaid; and those who are learned in tartanology might possibly pronounce which of the Macs has the strongest claim to an Etruscan origin".[118] Fig. 13 reproduced from Mrs. Murray Aynsley's _Symbolism of the East and West_, is taken from a fragment of pottery found in what is believed to be a pre-Etruscan cemetery at Bologna in Italy. It might be a portrait of Hendry or Sander bonneted in his glengarry, armed with a target, and trekking off with two terriers. _Terre_, or _terra firma_, the earth, is the same as _true_, meaning firm or constant. According to Skeat the present form of the verb _tarry_ is due to _tarien_, _terien_, "to irritate, provoke, worry, vex; hence to hinder, delay". Having "tarried" an order there was, it may be, still further "tarrying" on presentation of the tariff, and it may be assumed that the author of _The Odyssey_ had been personally "tarried" for he refers feelingly to-- A shrewd Phoenician, in all fraud adept, Hungry, and who had num'rous harm'd before, By whom I also was cajoled, and lured T' attend him to Phoenicia, where his house And his possessions lay; there I abode A year complete his inmate; but (the days And months accomplish'd of the rolling year And the new seasons ent'ring on their course) To Lybia then, on board his bark, by wiles He won me with him, partner of the freight Profess'd, but destin'd secretly to sale, That he might profit largely by my price. Not unsuspicious, yet constrain'd to go, With this man I embark'd. The hero of _The Odyssey_ was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself "in artifice well framed and in imposture various". Admittedly he "utter'd prompt not truth, but figments to truth opposite, for guile in him stood never at a pause".[119] Obviously he was a sailor to the bone, and when he says, "I boast me sprung from ancestry renowned in spacious Crete," with the additional statement that at one time he was an Admiral of Crete, it is possible we are in face of a fragment of genuine autobiography.