ETRURIA CAPTA. 215 
Fabretti 1496. P: VOLWMNIVS: A: F- VIOLENS 
Pl. xxxvi. CAFATIA - NATVS 
AV AFELIMNA AV CA8AYIAL 
In the last group the second A is indistinct. The name occurs 
in Lanzi 62, 63, 165 and elsewhere, so that A is well attested. 
bapiba aginsaumikara arpi zeralarakuu rasa 
Papiba Eginezaumak ra arpi Zerulurrekoi sortze 
Papiba Eginezaumak, to behold Zerulurrekoi natus 
The most important name in this group is Eginezaumak which 
translates Volumnius, the man of the book. Scriptor or Librarius 
would have done as well, but they did not represent Roman gentes. 
The first part of the word is egin, to do or make. The second, 
ezaumak, or in Etruscan zawmika, survives in Basque only as 
esemesak, opinion, saying ; for liburu, the Latin word, has displaced 
the native name. The Etruscan word must have been derived, how- 
ever, not from esan, to say, but from ezawn, ezagun, to know. The 
Japanese word for a book is shomotsu, and the Loochooan, shimutst. 
This word is exceedingly old, for it appears in the ancient Accadian 
of Chaldea, a thoroughly Turanian language, as samak, sumuk, a 
library : Sayce’s Assyrian Grammar, p. 16, Nos. 175, 176. The 
only other literary people of the Khitan, the Aztecs, preserved the 
word for book in an abbreviated form as amox. Thus Eginezaumika 
is the bookmaker, or author, or scribe. The preceding Bapiba is 
probably the original of the Latin Fabius, which denoted a gens 
eminent in literature and art, and persistently connected with 
Ktruria: Dennis’ Etruria, Vol. L, p. 425. Q. Fabius Pictor was 
the earliest Roman historian, as his grandfather had been the tirst 
artist. Two other Roman historians, Cincius and Sisenna, bore 
Etruscan names. Bapiba is the word translated Violens. The nearest 
equivalent in Basque is buhwmba, by which the Greek Ja/laps and 
Latin turbo are translated in the Testament of Rochelle, Mark iv. 37. 
The Japanese furnishes the corresponding words bofw and fubuke, 
and the Choctaw, fapah, fopah, the roaring of the wind. The Basque 
pompotla, a surging billow and paumpots, palpitation, are probably of 
the same origin. The remaining proper name is that of Cafatia, in 
Etruscan zeru-lurre-koi. The first part is zerw, heaven, but also 
meaning (Lecluse, vofite) a ceiling or vaulted roof. The second part 
lurre koi, has oceurred in the forms lurrenokoi, lurrezkoi, denoting an 
