Etruscan male votive head 3rd C. BCE
"The battle took place just after the summer solstice when the moon was near the full, on the very day of a former great disaster, when three hundred men of the Fabian gens had been cut to pieces by the Tuscans. But the second defeat was so much the worse that the day on which it fell is called down to the present time "dies Alliensis," from the river."
-Plutarch, The Parallel Lives: The Life of Camillus, Ch.19
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| Etruscan male votive head 3rd C. BCE, terracotta. 28 cm (11 in.). Current location: The J. Paul Getty Museum. |
Quote:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Camillus*.html#19
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