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separation, dismemberment, which Newman compares to the simi- 

 larity of the English shear, shears, short {Libyan Vocabulary, p. 

 50). In the ancient Numidian epigraphy this deity is referred to 

 in the literation ghrsl (Halevy, Essai, p. 121), and the final /seems 

 to be retained in the Etruscan form culsl quoted by Corssen.* 



La/a, ^goddess of the moon, probably the new moon, and hence 

 of birth and fecundity. The name seems connected with the 

 Libyan lal, to be born, Qalalil, birth, etc. In Numido-Latin in- 

 scriptions, this precise form Lala appears (see Halevy, Essai, 

 P- 83). 



Leucothea, the white goddess. This is the Greek translation of 

 the name of a female divinity much honored by the Etruscans, and 

 especially at Pyrgos, the port of Caere, where a great and beautiful 

 temple was dedicated to her (Miiller, Die Etrusker, Bd. ii, s, 

 54-56). The Etruscan form of the name is not given, but in the 

 list of their beneficent goddesses occur the names malavisy, and 

 melacuy, where the initial radical seems to be the same as in the 

 Libyan amelal, white, melhtl, it is white, etc. (Newman, Lib. 

 Vocal)., pp. 61, 62). In these, I believe, we may recognize the 

 goddess of Pyrgos. Whether her attribute of whiteness was derived 

 from the sea foam or the morning light, or from some other cause, 

 we have no means of knowing. 



Manes, Alania, Mantns. The dii Manes of the ancient Latins 

 are generally recognized to have been derived in character and 

 name from Etruscan antecedents. The derivations of the word 

 Manes offered by the later grammarians are as usual merely fanciful 

 and worthless, nor has any acceptable one been suggested by modern 

 writers. I believe it is revealed in the name of an ancient Libyan 

 deity, Motmanius. This occurs in a votive inscription found near 

 Constantine — Motmanio et Mercurio sacrum (Halevy, Essai, p. 157). 

 The name seems to be clearly a compound of Libyan emct ; aorist, 

 inu'tt, to die, dead, and email, soul, — a lord of the souls of the dead. 

 In the first syllable we recognize the Etr. mut-na, a tomb, a place 

 of the dead (see my Elh. Aff. of Etruscans, p. 19), and in Ma- 

 nius is the Etr. Manes, the current meaning of which was " the 

 souls of the dead,"f allied to which was the Etr. name of the god 

 of the underworld, Mantus, the goddess Mania, and perhaps the 



* Sprache der Etrusker, s. 610. 



t "Die Seele der*Hingeschiedenen," Miiller, Die Etrusker, Bd. ii, p. 98. 



