ETRURIA CAPTA. 921 
the same as the Japanese shiba, brushwood, and the Choctaw shawwa, 
brush, bushes. Perhaps chibe or shibe was the Etruscan form, being 
a variant of chipi, little, to denote undergrowth. Were the meaning 
of the Latin Arria clear, some connection might be found for Kuagi, 
or better, Goegi. If it be an expedient for arrigo, then go egi will 
be an allowable form of goititw, élever, and a sufficient translation of 
the mother’s name. 
Fabretti 794. L- PHISIVS -L: LAVCI 
LEVCLE - ¢ISIS - LAFYNI 
From Fabretti’s various readings I have only adopted Y in the 
last group instead of a.doubtful T. 
su ne pi chi sune mai unouno sari egi kukau 
zuen Pisisu ne mai on oan Sari-egi egokio 
ye who Pisisu to tablet ? Sari-egi belongs. 
This inscription has been intentionally obscured in meaning, for 
the purpose of putting an apparent Phisis into the Etruscan text. 
If this be not the case, how is it that all the bilinguals do not yield 
to the same key? In the same way zwen is placed before the true 
Pisisu, to make it look like Levele, reproducing Lauci. This Lauci 
is a barbarous disguise of Jaws, for Sari-egi, from sari and egin, 
means praise, or praising. The unusual verbal form onoono, or 
onoan, 1s similar to that of joun, to go, jan, to eat. It is probably a 
compound of on, good, and an old verb, oan, to pay attention or 
regard, answering to the Japanese wyamai, which is now represented 
in Basque by o-artu. The inscription will thus read: ‘* Ye who 
kindly regard the tablet to Pisius, to Sari-egi it belongs.” 
Fabretti 460. C-°*CASSIVS :C:F-:SATVRNINVS 
ECHsE LC - CLALY 
age chiagnoitchu chi chisarauku 
age Chiagnoichio age Isats arauki 
behold Chiaganichio, behold Isats conformable 
This text is far from clear. The C which stands alone in the 
third place should, I think, be F agi, for che, even, is always an 
affix. The final LY in my copy are so close to one another as to 
suggest that they represent an original N. In this case raka, now 
rako, towards, would take the place of the uncommon arauki, con- 
formable. The most important word is CL, which I read isats, but 
which originally must have been chisa, inasmuch as it is the Etruscan 
Lad 
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