ETRURIA CAPTA. 229 
8. ESCIEALYVLAPV 
nenochiu neb asakupisaratube 
-an nochiu nabusi jabe sari tobe 
did request master lord rewarding instead of 
9. AVLEMI - FELOINAMAPtNALCL ™% 
rapisanenou aginsamai karano artu ichkarasachisa 
arrapatzen nau aginza mai ekarri no artu itchekiri so chitsu 
accuse me he does offering table bringing of to receive adherents 
regard precedence. 
10. ENMI-: OII - OILMCVNA - CENV - E16 
nekanou mata mausanochipikara chinekabe ne 
neke nau emat mai asantsipikor zein gabe na- 
fail he me does to give tablet to erect contribution which without 
11. ALC - 8ELICLAPOALMA8VNEM ?” 
basachi lanesauchisaratumarasanoralapikaneno 
-busitze lanesa hitzzarratu mara asan Ralapika nen 
command workman word to write monument erected Ralapika to 
124 Line 8. nabusi jabe sari tobe: nabusi, in Etruscan nebusa, is an old Khitan word for 
master. It occurs in the long Phrygian inscription in Texier’s ‘‘ Asie Mineure,” T. II., p. 157, 
the first group in which is not Kelokes, as it has been read, but wtzi nabusi utzi nion, “lost 
master, IT have lost him.” It appears also in the Hittite inscriptions, Hamath I., II., IV. in the 
group I[ incorrectly read ta basanesa sara, which should be nabusinesa zari. Another Basque 
form of nabust is nausi, answering to the Japanese nushi, master. The conjunction ‘‘and” is 
omitted between nabusi and jabe, which present the Japanese order. The word sari is 
employed as a participle, meaning ‘‘honouring” rather than “rewarding.” It now means 
reward, and saristatu is to reward. The adverbial postposition tobe, instead of, governs sari. 
” 
125 Line 9. arrapatzen naw, in Etruscan probably arpetzen : arrapatzen means literally to 
seize, but here signifies to accuse. A somewhat analogous case is iratcheki, meaning ‘‘ attacher, 
joindre,” but which in iratchekitzen new signifies ‘‘il m’en veut.” 
artu itchekiri so chitsu: the verb artu, to take, receive, is one of the commonest occurrence 
in the Eugubine Tables. With itchekiri compare the attributive itcherik in line 4. The Etrus- 
can equivalent for the Basque gle, ille, gi/le is sa, as in lanesa, workman, zekesa, niggard. This 
leads me to ask if the word in this group be not ittchekirisa, he who adheres, an adherent, that 
is, to the confederacy, rather than itehekiri so, the regard of the adherents? The fiual chitsu I 
read as precedence, from chitcea, preceder, a word of Lecluse. 
126 Line 10. neke nau, he fails me; neke is not the same word as nokw in line 4, although they 
agree in signification. It is the Basque neke, travail, peine, nekezi, disette, nekatu, se fatiguer, 
the original meaning of which seems to have been privation, failure. 
emat; the form OIT appears in the Eugubine Table I. a, lines 21, 25, and elsewhere, but 
with auxiliaries. Here it is an intinitive, governed by the preceding verb. 
mai asantsi pikor, in Etruscan pikara: asantsi I find in Lecluse as asantatcea, magonner, 
asantua, mur, muraille. The as must be aitz, a rock, used instead of harri, stone. This aitz 
is the Japanese ishi, a stone. In pikor or pikara we have a synonym of ichpi. 
zein gabe, without which, namely, the pikor or contribution. 
ne belongs to next line. 
127 Line 11. nabusitze: the pronoun ni is wanting, probably because nabusitze, really nebu- 
satze, begins with E, As Lecluse says (p. 103): ‘Tout mot basque, nom, pronom, substantif, 
