ETRURIA CAPTA. 193 
Another votive tablet seems to refer to Alemena.” 
328. LAPO : 8SEPINA zarratu ma * lanetu uga ra 
FELVM aginza pino 
Translation—Written tablet Hercules mother to presented I have 
There is no doubt about Lanetu denoting Hercules, for that hero, 
with club complete, appears on many Etruscan gems bearing this 
name. As I have already stated, it is the Basque landu, lanth, 
work, labour. The Eugubine Inscriptions show that there was an 
officer in the Etruscan confederacy so called, whose duties are not 
defined. The only other thing that calls for mention in this inscrip- 
tion is the first appearance of the auxiliary verb dut, to have. In 
modern Basque, “J did,” or the imperfect of dut, is nwen. The form 
banu, which is the pino or benu of the text, now means “if I did.” 
But the present conjunctive was the old indicative form, as appears 
in the Eugubine Tables in many phrases, like artubenion Arretigi nen, 
I received him into Arretium. The Etruscans also expressed “he 
has” by be, which, in the form bu, is now imperative, “let him 
have.” Banu occurs also in the following. 
334. OANLFILVM -: CAIAL.: EIN 
_marakagu egihatz pino Zerua eritsd ni uga 
maragogo egihatz banu Zerua eritsa ene uga 
memorial engraved I have Zerua honours my mother 
The memorial I have engraved, it honours my mother Zerua 
The form maragogo, to which I referred when dealing with No. 
41, here replaces marakara. The second word egihatz, an inversion 
of hatz egin, to scratch, has also been before us in No. 2. The 
auxiliary banw stands in the same relation to this verb as that in 
which it stands to aginza in the preceding inscription. The pronoun 
ene is the Basque possessive, my. 
The next inscription furnishes a different form of the auxiliary. 
287. 
OANIA . MYAPCIA maraka harri * miratuchiura maraka harri miratuchiu ra 
/LEPSYIESA banetunokuune anre banetu nuqueyen andre 
Translation—Indication stone Miratuchiu to ; joined would I had, the wife™ 
70 Alemena is a name that might easily be taken for Etruscan. Alcman, the poet, was 2 
native of Sardis, in Lydia, a Hittite region. The word Lucumo, which is 8INO, alhaukamo, is 
of the same apparent formation. 
71 T find the same proper name in Lanzi (No. 18). 
LADOI : MAPCI °- PIL TX 
zarratu mai Miratuchiu du atso LX 
It is on a woman’s monument. 
