12.--Page 249, stanza xciii. _and all the honours of the race Lend their last bloom to smile in AEgle's face._ The Etrurians paid more respect to women than most of the classical nations, and admitted females to the throne. The Augur (a purely Etruscan name and office) was the highest power in the state. In the earlier Etruscan history, the Augur and the king were unquestionably united in one person. Latterly, this does not appear to have been necessarily (nor perhaps generally) the case. The king (whether we call him lars or lucumo), as well as the augur, was elected out of a certain tribe, or clan; but in the strange colony described in the poem, it is supposed that the rank has become hereditary in the family of the chief who headed it, as would probably have been the case even in more common-place settlements in another soil. Thus, the first Etrurian colonist, Tarchun, no doubt had his successors in his own lineage. I cannot assert that AEgle is a purely Etruscan name; it is one common both with the Greeks and Latins. In Apollodorus (ii. 5) it is given to one of the Hesperides, and in Virgil (Eclog. vi. l. 20) to the fairest of the Naiads, the daughter of the sun; but it is not contrary to the conformation of the Etruscan language, as, by the way, many of the most popular Latinized Etruscan words are, such as _Lucumo_, for Lauchme; and even Porsena, or, as Virgil (contrary to other authorities) spells and pronounces it, Pors[~e]nna (a name which has revived to fresh fame in Mr. Macaulay's noble "Lays") is a sad corruption; for, as both Niebuhr and Sir William G. remark, the Etruscans had no _o_ in their language. Pliny informs us that they supplied its place by the _v_. I apprehend that an Etrurian would have spelt Porsena _Pvrsna_.[B] 13.--Page 250, stanza xcvii. _The Gods had care of their Tagetian child!_ Tages--the tutelary genius of the Etrurians. They had a noble legend that Tages appeared to Tarchun, rising from a furrow beneath his plough, with a man's head and a child's body; sung the laws destined to regulate the Etrurian colonist, then sunk, and expired. In Ovid's Metamorphoses (xvi. 533) Tages is said to have first taught the Etrurians to foretell the future. 14.--Page 250, stanza c. _The fane of Mantu form'd the opposing bound._ MANTU, or MANDU, the Etrurian God of the Shades. 15.--Page 251, stanza ciii. _He leaves the bright hall where the AEsars dwell._ AEsars, the name given _collectively_ to the Etrurian deities.--SUET. AUG. 97. DIO. CASS. xxvi. p. 589. 16.--Page 251, stanza cv. _Of that bright Wanderer from the Olympian sky._ Apollo. 17.--Page 251, stanza cvii. _Those forms of dark yet lustrous loveliness._