562 Rev. Mr Wittiams on one Source of the 
Idoneus, “ proper, suitable,” &c. originally applied to men of 
property, hence “ rich, wealthy.” Hear Carus, (for lawyers, as 
I have before observed, are more retentive of the original meanings 
of words,) “ Si ab idoneo debitore ad inopem transtulerit obliga- 
tionem,” i. e. “ab eo debitore, qui est solvendo.’” Here idoneus, 
rich, and inops, poor, are put in opposition to each other. So, al- 
so, in Urian, “ Tutores et Fidejussores idonei,” are twice opposed 
to those “qui lapsi sunt facultatibus” (rumed men). Thus, also, 
it changes places with Locuples, as Testis idoneus, Testis locuples, 
Auctor locuples, Auctor idoneus. The root of this is the Cum. 
eid-ion, vulg. eidon, an ox, the generic name of kine, for beef 
is always called “cig eidon.” In the Cum. Italy is always called 
“Y’r eidal,” close enough to identify it with Italia, derived from 
italus, an ox. 
Divitiz seem as clearly referable to the Cum. Dav-ad, plur. De- 
veid, or as the word is written in old documents, Deveit, “a sheep. 
and sheep.” Indeed I doubt not that Davad and Devaid are com- 
pound words, made up of Dav or Déy, “tame,” and Eid, the root 
of Eidon, still to be found in the literary language of Ireland as 
the generic name for “cattle,” (see Ed. and Eid. in H. Luoyp’s 
Irish Dict.) ; and that the animals, reclaimed from their wild state, 
and domesticated by man, bore this name, which was subsequent- 
ly transferred to express the wealth of man. He who therefore 
is inclinedto deny that pecunia and pecuniosus come from pecus, 
may also refuse his assent to the inference that Divitiz comes 
from Deveit. I could as easily shew that Duonus, the original 
form of bonus ; is also of Cum. origin, but I abstain, and reluc- 
tantly close the present paper. 
To follow it up, three more at least are absolutely necessary— 
1. An examination of the facts which made so many tribes in 
Italy, Gaul, and Britain, claim a Trojan origin, and a sa- 
‘ Lib. et tit. 4. Leg. 27. * Lib. xxvii. tit. 8. Leg. 1. 
