and how instead of doing what everybody expected , and sending his men to fight , he gave them seed and ploughshares and oxen , and dispersed them among the fields and pastures , where they settled , and married local women , and brought up children and horses and their long-legged , long-horned white cattle ; and though cranu did n't live to see it , by his son 's day every single farm in the valley was in etruscan hands . ''