Tyrrhenians
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Agyllaioi · Tuscans · Tyrrhenia (people)
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Peoples of Tyrrhenia (Etruria) who offer, and eventually send, ships in support of the Athenian expedition.
as did also three fifty-oared galleys from Tyrrhenia.
They sent at this time a trireme to Carthage with proposals of friendship, on the chance of their obtaining any help, and another to Tyrrhenia, as some of its cities had of their own accord offered to join them in the war.
and of those out of Sicily, some of the Tyrrhenians, on account of a quarrel with the Syracusans, and some lapygian mercenaries.
Stromata
Etruscan people credited with divinatory and artistic inventions.
Further, they say the Tuscans devised modelling, and Itanus (he was a Samnite) first made the oblong shield.
The Phrygians were the first to observe the flights of birds, and the Tuscans, neighbours of Italy, perfected the art of inspecting victims.
The Histories
An Italian people (including the Agyllaeans) who ally with Carthage against the Phocaean colonists and later seek to atone for stoning Phocaean captives.
for they pay great honors to the Phocaeans, with religious rites and games and horse-races.
The Phocaeans also manned their ships, sixty in number, and met the enemy in the sea called Sardonian.
But they harassed and plundered all their neighbors, as a result of which the Tyrrhenians and Carthaginians made common cause against them, and sailed to attack them with sixty ships each.