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Davies translates this in his "Mythology of the British Druids": 

 "My lore has been declared in Hebrew, in Hebraic." The other poem, 

 entitled The Praise of Lhudd the Great, contains the following passage 

 in a foreign tongue, which Davies thought might be Phoenician : 



" O Brithi Brith oi, 

 Nu oes nu edi, 

 Brithi, Brith anhai 

 Sych edi edi eu roi.'' 



This the writer turns into more modern Basque form as follows: 



" O Brithi, Brith oi, 

 Nu o-etsi, nu adi : 

 Brithi, Brith auai 

 Zac adi, adi au arau." 



This is more Etruscan than modern Basque, and means : 



" O Brithi, associate of Brith, 

 Pay attention to me, hear me : 

 Brithi, brother of Brith, 

 Do thou hear, hear this measure." 



Either Brith or Brithi, besides being Proteus, the sea-deity, and the 

 Indian Bharata, is the Brutus of Geoffrey of Monmonth, and of the 

 Brut d'Angleterre. His original sanctuary or oracle was called Beeroth. 

 The Viscomte Chasteigner applied to the writer last winter (1899), ^^^ 

 the derivation of the name Biarritz, which he had traced back in various 

 forms of orthography as far as 11 86. After much study, its original 

 was found in Beeroth, derived from Be-ur-i, or "he of the great water 

 or the sea," as Be-iir-ots, " the sound of the great water," or as Be-ur-itz, 

 "the speech of the great water." It was at first, doubtless, an oracle of 

 the Ottadini, whose name Pliny disguises as Oscidates, and places in 

 the vicinity of Biarritz. Such is the long excursus to which the simple 

 mention of Ganibeta has, it is to be hoped, not unprofitably led. It 

 remains to observe that Amahetzio, the city of Otadi, son of Tane, has 

 a Hamathitc, or, Peruvianly speaking, Amauta look. In the Etruscan 

 inscriptions is found the equivalent of the Japanese shomotsu and 

 Mexican aviox, "a book," which is wanting in modern Basque, namely, 

 esaunieka, in the compound word egin-ezaumeka, which translates the 

 Latin Volumnius, "a book maker." This is virtually the Akkadian 

 sumuk, samak, " a library." 



