.Final Attempt to restore the Tarquins.-Quite inconsistent with this peaceful withdrawal from the City on the part of the ，Etruscan king is the custom which, with other formalities, has been handed down from antiquity to our own age of“selling the goods of King Porsena. ，’This custom must either have been 粼aced during the war and kept up after peace was made, ormust have a less bellicose origin than would be implied by the description of the goods sold as " taken froze the enemy."The most 'probable tradition is that Anr}ena, knnwincr the Citv ‘_L_、17.1,__一*一r-一，---一二--一二-一二一----.一一一:-一，下一一”厂一节--一气几_, Lo De without TOOnOwlnP* 1'.n T.r1P Inner 1nvPfitmPntMAMPtnP Romans a present of his richly-stored camp, in which provisions had been collected from the neighbouring fertile fields of Etruria. Then. to prevent the people seizing them indiscriminately as spoils of war, they were reguiariy solo., unaer me aescriptlon of ‘} +hP aonri;of Porsena.'’a descrivtion indicatinz rather the gratitude of the people than. an auction of the King- s personal property, which. had never been at the disposal of the Romans. To prevent his expedition from appearing; entirely fruitless, Porsena, after bringing the war witn .Dome to a close, sent nxs son Aruns with a part of his force to attack Aricia. At first the Aricians were dismayed by the unexpected movement, taut the succours which in response to their request were sent from the Latin towns and from Cumae so far encouraged them that ventured to offer battle At the commencement of the acti on the Etruscans attacked with such vigour that they routed the Aricians at the first ch The Cuman cohorts made a strategical. flank movement, and when the enemy had pressed forward in disordered pursuit, they wheeled round and attacked them in the rear. Thus the ;Etruscans, now all but victorious, were hemmed in and cut to pieces. A very small remnant, after losing their ge neral.made for Rome, as there was no nearer place of safety. w ithout arms。and in the guise of suppliants, they J were kindly received and distributed amongst different houses. After recovering from their wounds, some left for their homes, to tell of the kind hospitality they had received;many remained behind out of affection for their hosts and the City. A district was assigned to them to dwell in, which subsequently bore the designation of“the Tuscan quarter.'’