ETRURIA CAPTA. 241 
4. MLA: ILALE - YINS - LVPSO : YEF "6 
misarago usaragone kuukano sapitunoma kuneag 
misa rako atso rakone goijaun kupida no ema gune ag- 
monument towards age acknowledging high lord compassion of gives 
us to 
5: - AVEIOVN 19! 
rapiagumapika 
-erri Begiaumabeka 
manifestation 
6. LV DSOSAL 18 
sapitunomanorasa 
kupida no ema no eritza 
compassion of giving me he honours 
=) 
E8DS - NAC 19 
nelatuno karachi 
ni lotu no ikheretsi 
me joining of to show gratitude 
goodness widely proclaimed,” in English idiom gives the possessive, ‘‘I widely proclaimed his 
goodness.” 
gune ona, goodness to us, a case of anadiplosis. 
ni age jabe Turano imbesa aintza ne. The verb age, root of agerri, in Etruscan means 
inform. I think jabe and imbesa are in apposition, the lord, the envoy of Tyrrhenia, that is 
the representative of the Confederacy or Dominion, appointed probably by the Lucumo. I 
read aintza ne as ‘*‘ who presents.” 
156 Line 4. misa rako, towards the memorial. 
atso rakone : the final ne seems to change the postposition rako intoa verb. Inthe Eugubine 
Tables rano-ne is similarly employed, meaning to approach, join, yield to. recognize, be of the 
same party. Here rakone seems to signify acknowledging or paying respect to. 
goi jaun : this inversion of jaungoi or jawngoiko, the name of divinity among the Basques, 
has already appeared in these pages in connection with votive inscriptions. It is in the genitive 
of position to the following : 
kupida no ema: for kupida, see line 2. It is in the genitive governed by no. The verb 
ema has ne at the end of line 3 for its subject. It governs the following agerri. ; 
gu ne agerri, to us declaration. 
157 Line 5. begiaumabeka : the first part is probably begi, eye. It may be the name of a god 
or an old form for Providence ; nescio. 
158 Line 6. kuwpida no ema: see lines 4 and 2. 
norasa, may be for naw eritsi, he honours me. 
158 Line 7. ni lotu no: the verb lot, lotw, lotzen, now means to bind. In Etruscan it had a 
more extended signification, being a synonym of banetwin the Eugubine Tables. The Choctaw 
hollotti means bound ; but many words of similar form, like hlitoha, mean unbound. 
ikheretsi or ikherreste in Basque means gratitude. In this place it seems a verbal form, 
namely eritisi, preceded by ka. As a noun the Basque ikherreste is a synonym of esker, The 
original signification of etsi, whence onetsi, eritsi, ikerhetsi, gaitzetsi, is given, I think, in the 
Choctaw, which has a verb eshih, ishih, isht, meaning to hold, receive, take. In Basque artu 
has superseded etsi in these original senses of the word, but in composition it may be detected 
