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The Etruscans

Etruscans

also: Etrusker

The pre-Roman people of central Italy, whose sarcophagi bear a reclining figure on the lid; in the Eighth Elegy the bird half-knows inside and outside 'as if it were a soul of the Etruscans.'

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