when luxury and effeminacy had sapped their strength. [Sidenote: ETRUSCAN NOBILITY AND CLIENTS] But at the period of the tombs in question the blood of the nobility is still healthy and is in no need of regeneration. This is the nobility whose long lances controlled Italy, and whose cavalry was so terrible in onset.[89] The pictures of the tombs show them at the death lament, at feasts, and on hunting expeditions, at symposia, where men and women freely indulge in wine and love, and finally in the Tomba delle Bighe as spectators seated on the stands. On the other hand, the horsemen, the dancers, the dancing-women, and the athletes are certainly of lower extraction, hired servants like the corresponding performers in Rome, perhaps, to some extent, clients. FOOTNOTES: [74] Strabo vi. p. 410 (= Ephorus, _fragm._ 2 in Müller, _Fragmenta historic. graec._ i. p. 246). The ingenious etymologist Philochorus even derived the word ‘tyrant’ from Tyrrhenians (Philoch. _fragm._ 5 in Müller, _op. cit._). [75] Dittenberger, _Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum_,^{3} 305, with note 1. [76] Polybius ii. 17. Livy v. 33. 7-8. [77] _Origines_ 62. [78] Dionys. Halic. i. 12. [79] Thucydides vi. 88, and vii. 54-5. [80] Dionys. Halic. v. 26, 35, 39. [81] Schulze, _Zur Geschichte latein. Eigennamen_, p. 95 f., 262 ff. [82] Dionys. Halic. iii. 45, 47 ff. [83] Varro, _De lingua Latina_ v. 5; Livy i. 13. 8. [84] Cp. E. Kornemann, _Klio_ xiv. 1914-15, p. 190. [85] Livy i. 8. 3. [86] Dionys. Halic. iii. 61-2. [87] Wilhelm Schulze, _Zur Geschichte lateinischer Eigennamen. Abh. der kgl. Gesellsch. der Wissensch. zu Göttingen, Phil.-hist. Kl._, Neue Folge, Bd. 5, No. 5, p. 62 ff. [88] Dionys. Halic. ii. 8, 10. [89] Livy iv. 18. 8. Cp. ix. 29. 2, where the Etruscans are described as the most dangerous enemies of the Romans. XV [Sidenote: DECLINE AND FALL OF ETRURIA]