218 PR -CEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
its derivation as well as of that of Vensius I am ignorant. Should 
Vensius derive from the Greek phoinisso, or from the Latin vena, 
the words may coincide as the two significations o/ “leech” in 
English. The native of Rusellae may have been a_ primitive 
physician or phlebotomist. 
Fabretti 792. C:ALFIVS:A-F 
CAINNIA NATVS 
FL: ALSm- NVFI 
CAINAL 
egi so rasalami kabe egiu 
zerua karasa 
egi so Rusellae imi Kofa egio Look Rusellae places Kabegio 
Zerua sortze Zerua natum 
This is another native of Rusellae. The final M or imi is very 
unusual. Kabegio is plainly meant for Alfius, and Zerna for 
Cainnia. Now Zerua is a form of zeru, the sky, so that Cainnia 
must stand for Cyanea. Also Alfius, if it mean anything, is Alveus, 
and to this kofa, hollow, corresponds. Van Eys derives kofa, koba, 
kavi, gabia, &c., from the Spanish and Provengal, but the Japanese 
kuboi, concave, hollowed, and kubomi, a concavity, a hollow place, 
restore them to their rank as native words. The Choctaw also has 
kafakbi a dent, hollow, and kafakbichih, to make hollow. Such a 
form as the latter must Kabegio be, the latter part of the word 
being the verb egin, to make. 
Fabretti 934. SPEDII - TVLLIO 
LAVYNAYA SEPYVPVS 
sarapi kukarakura —_— nonetukupitupino 
Zarrapo egoki irakurri non Idoki pitu banu 
Zarrabe belongs the reading ; where Doku lower I did 
Spedius is not a Latin word, and must represent the Greek 
spadén, a tear, or a rough sharp sound, which is not indeed the 
meaning of zarrapo, but of the related zarrasta, “ bruit que fait la 
toile quand on la déchire.” The other name, Tullius, translates 
Idoki, which means “to take away,” by follo rather than by tudv. 
The verb pitu or betw is unknown to modern Basque. The com- 
monest use of V, be is as the postposition ‘‘under” It may be that 
betu is an old form answering to behertitu, beheratu, to lower. It 
109a Tt is more likely that pitw, betu is the original of the Basque epatu, to fix, set a limit or 
mark. See Tomb of Sarapikuka, line 1. 
