To The Etruscan Poets
Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young
Took with your mothers’ milk the mother tongue,
In which pure matrix, joining world and mind,
You strove to leave some line of verse behind
Like a fresh track across a field of snow,
Not reckoning that all could melt and go.
Richard Wilbur
Some poets can say more in six lines than others manage in six hundred…
David Sutton 
According to Wikipedia the Etruscan language “was still flourishing in the 2nd century BC, still alive in the first century BC, and surviving in at least one location in the beginning of the first century AD”.