Etruscan Votive head of a girl with earrings 3rd C. BCE

"While dwelling on the history of foreign countries, I now come to an event pertaining to our own, one in which there has been much error, and in which the views of the authorities show great discrepancy. For some maintain that about this time, eight hundred and thirty years ago, Capua and Nola were founded by the Etruscans. With these I myself am inclined to agree, but the opinion of Marcus Cato is vastly different. He admits that Capua, and afterwards Nola, were founded by the Etruscans, but maintains that Capua had been in existence for only about two hundred and sixty years before its capture by the Romans. If this is so, as it is but two hundred and forty years since Capua was taken, it is but five hundred years since it was founded. For my own part, with all due regard for Cato's accuracy, I can scarcely believe that the city could have had such growth, such prosperity, or could have fallen and risen again, in so short a space of time."

-Velleius Paterculus, Roman History: Book 1.7

Etruscan Votive head of a girl with earrings 3rd C. BCE. Height: 8.5 inches. Terracotta. Current location: Fordham University.

Source:

https://digital.library.fordham.edu/digital/collection/Hist/id/602

 

Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/1*.html#7.2.2