of the Torrhebi. This- seems: to -belthedegionjas Miiller has
observed, from which we may-shp.gbsehwith thbgEöäffeehtfproba-
bility that the cotoayiSsued, which gfiveuiRew character; and
we may add - a fmw population^ t© th:e«rnorth of Italy, Müller
“supposes1 that an emigration actually took .place, but nofti#
the* genuine Lydiati or Maeonian race. He conjectures that*
bands' of P e la lg ih a d settled on the coast of Car $ Und Lydia
adjacebt ' to Tyrrha, and’ thattheyvhere obtained <th&epithet of
Tyrseni Pelasgi ;• that after acquiring the arts and many, of the
customs of their Lydian neighboursjthey.carried thetn/ as well
as a name originally derived from Tyrrha^over the-sgadenned
Tyrrhenian ;|an d after occupying- the ^ coast of the Rasena,
tauriht the inhabitants- of Lower Umbria Hin I BHH 7 I I M their arts, and communicated
to-them their name-of Tyrseni:
We.haye seen th a t historical traditions'|aj||^unta0impus:,in
making the settlement“ of the Lydian- or Tdseari colony^subse-
quent to that of the Pelasgi, and that theXyrsiKqT Tyrrhenians
are uniformly asserted-to have-conquered that people.,. ,If -,we
must form an hypothesis in accommodation with, the anqipnt
historical notices^ it would not be . precisely thatqadqpted by
Muller, who in this’h i s ^ e e . b r i a ^ ^ , ^ ] t h b u ^ ^ y v i ^ ^ ^
a supposition contradicting all the .ancient. .tes<3BPf%jS8g| It
is ju s t as probable, that the Tuscan people were.|emigran-%;of
the Lydian r # e 1 as th a t -they were .Pelasgi, 7 If; wp, suppose
that a colony from the coast of Lydia - arriveddn . Italy .after.
the conquests of the Pelasgi, and reduced, thmmas,we$bas,th>e
Umbrians, and founded the twelve-cities of Lower Etruria,- we
shall find all the statements of ancient historians on this supposition
reconciled.
S e c t io n X .— Concluding Remarks and general Review o f
..the Population o f Italy.-
At thevery. earliest dawn Of the light of history or rather
of tradition on" Italy, we discover recent traces«.of the passage
of different tribes of people from the northern parts of that
country to its southern extremity. The first of these, and the
f i r s t only, was an Allophylian race, or one of a lineage"foreign
to the great Indo-European family of nations. The Sicani of
tfredb'mUh%trock, expelled from their original country, of which
thefeituation is, unknowmj-r-qjerhaps' in thd South of . Gaul,^—t§
sought defogb:ultimately in,the islec'd^risjieily,.to which they
gave^the.'nam-ëiiof' Their way . was probably through
Ita ly ; butfct)fi fhah#©un^ry-vî^e^baü only infer that they were
êtiÈie time-inhabi tahts m‘ th&numben Of epithetS>descriptive
plaeesWwhiOfo hà^Æbè’èwpOinted 'out? by Baroii W; von
Hum-boldt,'1à#â*^teiédtt»s,ff)‘e',‘eBa'riy.fsîgnifi"caiit>'in the Euska-
riàndiaîï^àtageKlH
iîîThë- Siculi^f^whomniust b ^joined all- the-tribes nearly re-
Ihte'dP^ them] tis-'fbe ©ênotri^the MO^gWeS^iltalietMs^ Peucetii,
reported? by*tradition to diaVëfebeenUconnécted in
8rl|ih Wjthriffd primiti^inhhMtaMsfl^pî'iêcê^ their Mngdage
affo ff^ a ■imëqtim|MwIevM'rëhfe§î of their affinity w thl;
Latiiîsl4 Theyt£&^fodhd'a'ÿJMe^fdufI|‘ëî,h.^pàrts,‘ of Italy.;’ but of
t H e i r t h r o u g h the'4 nÔ'fth1 we ' hh'rie^f nice's in the tradition
"that they wefe^&x^lf^ffi’dm sevërâl ' diStriùts'fon- the
'o ^ a e fs5or(Ufhbria by rniPPlsIti* warlike qfeWpI*e; wHo^live’ nartie
iff that cwhtry^Tne^^ere* fe x p el red ffOm-Latium, as* it is said,
orip§Rmpssth e y '^ ^ ^ fo th e r confjîï^Wd^ÿThe^I-iarindfo'r Abro
îffg ïfil, and from' thecountry betwedtf Latirini and th^ SicuMti
' llraifo;iSb y the* Opici^a people Of- the; sàmëŸ'stb$k with the Au-
^sones^dnd th^Sabine^f Both o’fothèfèë'nations;* the Latins
arid1 the’’Sabines,' are dedubéd ' froth ■ countries riMr the Apen-
Ifines rind tn e sborders! of ‘Umbria, ! and5 it - is probable, that'
they werebrigmaily ôuŸM'Uhibrian race. Thè'old Latin, the
Opic of Oscan, àhd the'Umbrian are plainly dialects5 of one
original 'speech, with which1 the Stephan is likewise* connected
•By all the remains"which are yèt extant, arid-#hich though
.scanty appear to be sufficient!for a Satisfactory coriblusion.
These nations, the Umbri in-the north, and the Latins, Opici
or Ausones, including thè Sabine^é’f Sabellian branch, and the
Siculi and their kindred in the sôuth, appear to have occupied
at one period Ihe'whole“o'f Italy. They were'iri fact one nation,
divided into different trib,es, speaking dialèçts.of one language,
and they may be considered as a particular branch of the great
Indo-European race. This branch was more nearly allied to the
,f * They were expelled by- the Ligurians, whose' country was.the coast of Gaul.