ETRURIA CAPTA. Ailee 
Fabretti 794. OTACILIVS :RVFVS : VARIA: NATVS 
AO: VNAYA : AAPNAL AVP. 
erma bekari gori_ baratu karasa artu 
arama (darama) Beharri Gorri Baratu sortze artu 
it bears Beharri Gorri Baratu natwm hold ! 
The verb eraman, to bear, makes darama in the 3 sing. pres. 
indic. In Etruscan this initial d is consistently dispensed with. In 
this inscription it is evident that the Etruscan characters do not 
coincide with the Latin. ‘This is no case of correspondence like 
Caulias, Sentis, Licini and Volumnius. The artist has been honest 
as well as ingenious. Wishing to translate the name Bekari, now 
beharri, belarri, an ear, the original form of which probably survives 
in prkero, the ass, (long ears), by a recognized Latin proper name, he 
took that of the Otacilian gens in which, rightly or wrongly, he 
recognized the Greek otikos. The following gorri, red, he translated 
Rufus. The name read Varia is harder to explain as an equivalent 
of Baratu. The present Basque word nabur, bigarré, answering in a 
measure to the Japanese mabure, would perfectly reproduce Varia. 
In my paper on the Aztec and its Relations I have shown how, in 
Aztec, palli denotes both colour and contents, like the Japanese zro 
and wu, which in composition become bizro and biru ; and bave 
suggested a similar relation between the Basque dar, within, and a 
primitive bal or bar, the root of beltz, baltz, black, meaning colour. 
The Japanese for Varia is vro-dort. As the equivalent of this I suppose 
an ancient Basque or Etruscan baratu, of which baitu, spotted, may 
be the representative. 
Fabretti 793. C °VENSIVS -C-F:CAIVS 
FEL : FENTILE - ALSNALISLE 
aginza egin kaitch u sane rasalakarasaunosune 
aginza egin Kaitch Usena Rusellae sortze onetzen 
offering makes Kaitch, Usena Rusellis natum to esteem 
In this case Kaitch or Kaich is Caius, and Vensius is the Latin 
translation of Usena. The latter word now means ‘a leech.” Of 
Mr. VanderSmissen also points out the frequent recurrence of the gentile names Vibia 
Vercinia as: 
14538, &e. FIAI * FEPCNAM 
These characters read: agubau aginduchikarano 
The first may be gai bahi, see 1480, or it may be aname. The second word contains agindu, 
the verb, to command or promise. It is premature to pronounce on the meaning of chikara, 
eskari. The final no is probably the genitive. 
