Etruscan man from Vulci - Hellenistic Period (300-50 BCE)

"The Gauls, alarmed by the Roman advance and at variance among themselves, waited until nightfall and then set off for home, their retreat resembling a flight. After this panic, they kept quiet for thirteen years, and then, as they saw how rapidly the power of the Romans was growing, they made a formal peace with them, to the terms of which they adhered steadfastly for thirty years. But then, when a fresh movement began among the Transalpine Gauls, and they feared they would have a big war on their hands, they deflected from themselves the inroad of the migrating tribes by bribery and by pleading their kinship, but they incited them to attack the Romans, and even joined them in the expedition. They advanced through Etruria, the Etruscans too uniting with them, and, after collecting a quantity of booty, retired quite safely from the Roman territory..."

-Polybius, The Histories: Book 2.18

Etruscan man from Vulci - Hellenistic Period (300-50 BCE). From Vulci, votive deposit of an urban sanctuary at "Area I", on the northeast slopes of La Città (1996-2002 excavations). Current location: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia.

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Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/2*.html#18