1890.] 4.1 [Brinton. 



lius (see Miiller, Die Etrusker, Bd. ii, s. in, note), a title of 

 thoroughly Libyan physiognomy, meaning " great conqueror," from 

 the verbal ima, to conquer; tarna, supremacy, victory (Newman, 

 Libyan Vocabulary, p. 172). 



Mas-entius, Mezentius, an ancient Etruscan ruler of Caere, said 

 by Cato to have been a contemporary of ^Eneas (Miiller, Die Etrus- 

 ker, Bd. i, s. 109). Deecke believes that the name reappears in 

 family names mes-i, mes-ial, etc., of Perugia {Ibid., s. 495). 



Musonii ; Latinized form of an Etruscan family name near Orvi- 

 eto, borne by the writer C. Musonius Rufus. Deecke compares it 

 with the Etruscan names : 

 Mus'-ni, found near Cortona. 

 Mus-enial, found near Perugia. 

 Mus-u, found at Corneto. 

 All corresponding to mas. 



Mas-o ; Latinized form of Etr. mas-u, allied to mas-ve, mas-venial, 

 etc. (Miiller, Die Etrusker, Bd. i, s. 501). 



Mat-, Met. A frequent initial syllable in Etr. names, as mat-ves, 

 mat-ausnal, met-usnei, mat-ona, mat-ulna, etc. It is sufficiently 

 common in the Libyan epigraphy as mat-ti, mat-ar, met-ut, etc. 

 Halevy considers it from a root indigenous to Africa, where, in 

 some of the Hamitic dialects, the radical met, mid, mutu, signifies 

 "man" (Essai, p. 18). 



Tania, dannia, Banna. This, says Pauli, " is one of the few pure 

 Etruscan feminine pra^nomens. " * It is seen in the name of the 

 wife of Tarquin, "Tanaquil" (Etr. Oanyvil), and was one of the 

 most frequent of the surnames of the Etruscan women, f It is pre- 

 served in the same form in the Touareg branch of the Berber, in 

 which anna = mother, and / is the feminine prefix. \ 



Tite, Titeia, a proenomen rather common in these and allied 

 forms, and considered pure Etruscan. In Libyan epigraphy did and 

 dides recur in the sepulchral inscriptions. The precise form tites 

 appears on various Etr. inscriptions (see Deecke, in Miiller, Die 

 Etrusker, Bd. i, s. 4.71). The Libyan prince already mentioned 

 who invaded Egypt in the nineteenth dynasty was Mar-ajui, " a son 

 of Did." 



Vel-, Vul-, Vol-, Volt-. These were extremely common Etr. pre- 



*EtrusMsche Forschungen, 1882, s. 114. 



fSee note of Deecke in Miiller, Die Etrusker, Bd. i, ss. 457-9. 



X Newman, Libyan Vocabulary, p. 197. 



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