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.
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.
as did also three fifty-oared galleys from Tyrrhenia.
The Tyrrhenians (for it was they who were keeping guard at this point) seeing them coming on in disorder, advanced towards them, and fell upon and routed their van, and drove them into what was called the marsh of Lysimelea.
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.
As for the crews of the disabled ships, the Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians drew lots for them, and of the Tyrrhenians the Agyllaioi were allotted by far the majority and these they led out and stoned to death.
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.
for they pay great honors to the Phocaeans, with religious rites and games and horse-races.