Non-Hellenic Portion of the Latin Language. 559 
It is a curious coincidence, that, to this day, Gwaith Mwyn, in 
Wales, always means “a lead mine.” From Moenus, or Munus, 
a metal, came undoubtedly Moneta, “ money.” Cum. Mwnai, 
“money coin,” as in Ovip, Fast. v. 221,— 
*« Aira dabant olim: melius nunc omen in auro est, 
Victaque concedit prisca moneta nove,” 
(The fable about Juno Moneta, root, moneo, with a Greek ter- 
mination, is unworthy of serious notice), and Munus and Munera, 
gifts. 
Secondly, Preeda, a prey, from the Cum. Praid, plur. Preide. 
In Ow. Dict. we have the following explanation of Praid, “a 
flock or herd ; also a booty or spoil of cattle taken in war.” 
“Praid gyv-reithiol, pedair bu ar igaint a Tharw,” Welsh 
Laws. “A legal herd, twenty-four cows, and a bull.” In similar 
Latin order, Praeda Corritualis, Quatuor boves super viginti et 
Taurus. 
In the Latin transmitted to us, we find Preeda with the second- 
ary meaning alone, acquired by the Romans at an early age, when 
the robber wolf was their favourite emblem, and their neigh- 
bours’ flocks and herds were regarded as legitimate objects of 
plunder. But there are, if I am not much mistaken, some Latin 
words still extant, which were formed in a more Saturnian age, 
when Prada had not lost its proper signification of flocks and 
herds. Among these are, 
Preedium, 
Pres, 
Preeditus. 
Concerning the meaning of the word Preedium, there is no doubt. 
All interpret it to be a farm or landed property. “ Possessio,” 
says ForcELurnt, “omnia bona complectitur, mobilia et immo- 
bilia ; Pradium immobilia tantum.” The Roman philologists, if 
we can honour them with the name, wished to derive Predium 
from Prees, a personal security, as if the first quality of landed 
property, which would occur to a simple and early race, was 
the power of mortgaging it. In later times, such a confu- 
