Note 33 — The Ancient Etruscan City of Luni.
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Even in the time of Lucan it was deserted, for he speaks of “desertæ mœnia Lunæ.” (See Lucan, Phars. i. 586.) Bulwer, in his “King Arthur” (Book iv. stanza 14), writes:—
“That old friendly soil Whose ports, perchance, yet glitter with the prows Of Punic ships, when resting from their toil In Luna’s gulf, the seabeat crews carouse.”