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Romans makes no mention at all of any tribe or people called Etruscans. It refers to the POPULATION of Etruria and this were mixture of tribes.
"[3] Ueientes contra taedio annuae ambitionis quae interdum discordiarum causa erat, regem creauere. offendit ea res populorum Etruriae animos, non maiore odio regni quam ipsius regis. [4] grauis iam is antea genti fuerat opibus superbiaque, quia sollemnia ludorum quos intermitti nefas est uiolenter diremisset, [5] cum ob iram repulsae, quod suffragio duodecim populorum alius sacerdos ei praelatus esset, artifices, quorum magna pars ipsius serui erant, ex medio ludicro repente abduxit. "
They refer to Tuscans and they make a distinction between Tuscans and Tyrrhenians and Pelasgians who are different unrelated tribes who spoke different languages.
Etruria and Tuscum are nothing to do with each other. The Tuscans were descended from Tuscus. There were no such people as Etruscans which is also why there is no Etruscan eponymous founder. The Latin text mentions a TUSCAN word and clearly distinguishes the Tuscans from other Etrurian populations, by referring to "Tuscan fashion" and "Tuscan word". This implies there are other Etrurian populations who are not Tuscans.
"[4] ceterum parua quoque, ut ferme principia omnia, et ea ipsa peregrinares fuit. sine carmine ullo, sine imitandorum carminum actu ludiones ex Etruria acciti, ad tibicinis modos saltantes, haud indecoros motus more Tusco dabant. [5] imitari deinde eos iuuentus, simul inconditis inter se iocularia fundentes uersibus, coepere; nec absoni a uoce motus erant. [6]
accepta itaque res saepiusque usurpando excitata. uernaculis artificibus, quia ister Tusco uerbo ludio uocabatur, nomen histrionibus inditum; "
It is describing a geographic region of many peoples. In 1183 BC according to Strabo et. al. Teucrian tribes are documented to have also colonised northern Italy including Rome.
There was also a high degree of Greek colonisation of Italy between 1246 and1183 BC and from 734 BC onwards as well as a an Arcadian Pelagic colonisation in 1460 BC. (Pausanius et. al). Also there was a Aeolic (Thesprotian?) colonisation somewhere between 1460 and 1300 BC attested to by Stabo and others. The first Roman emperor of Greek origin to have come out of Etruria was Tarquinus.
In around about 1093 BC or not long after Pelasgains colonised parts of northern Greece and went as far north as Creston above Tyrrhenia. They also founded Tyrrhenian Athens according to Thucidedes.
The word Etruria came from the corruption of the Lydian name Tyrrhenia via Greek since there is a Greek ending which agee with "H" or "The (fem.)".
"Etruria" = "H Tyrrhenia"
The Tyrrhenian Lydian's came to northern Italy in 1610 BC 18 years after the Thera Eruption as documented by Herodotus.
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