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indication of the children, and which, according to the Greek translation, 
can signify nothing else than, and. Now, if we take the eighth word as 
having the same meaning with the Greek covr#, or the Latin stbi, then the 
twelfth word, which seems to be a derivative from the eighth, must signify 
suus. But the tenth word not appearing to be distinguished from this, we 
must of necessity take the ninth as a substantive, which, as being of no 
essential importance, is not only left out in the second and third inscriptions, 
but is also unnoticed in the Greek translations. It may perhaps signify 
memory. In the first two words, the inscriptions severally differ ; the third 
and fourth, on the contrary, are, with the exception of the different forms 
of writing, the same in all the inscriptions. Hence it is probable that these 
two words combined express one idea, which has been rendered in the 
Greek translation by the reflective evexocu70, as the word must probably 
be read. The Latin curavit edificandum might be taken for those two words, 
inasmuch as the fourth appears to be derived from the second word of the 
second and third inscriptions, which would hence signify @difictum. For 
the first word, which is obliterated in the first inscription, must in the fourth 
signify by itself a tomb, in case no second word accompanies it. 
We may perhaps, through the second word of the fourth inscription, 
arrive at some conclusion with regard to the family of languages to which 
the Lycian belongs. As the last character in this word is found at the end 
of the fourth word, and in the middle of the first, interchanging with an Y, 
it is probable that the sound is the same, but prolonged; and this leads us 
to the observation, that the Lycian writing, like the Persian, distinguished 
long from short vowels by different marks, the former of which might have 
been changed like diphthongs into different sounds; and that as the old 
Greek alphabet only gave marks for short vowels, new ones were invented 
in the Lycian for the long vowels. ‘Thus we may in the simplest manner 
account for the various characters peculiar to the Lycian writings, as long 
vowels besides the short ones taken from the Greek alphabet. For it is 
manifest, from a comparison of the Lycian and Greek alphabets, that the 
Lycians received all the letters of the Greek alphabet for which they had 
corresponding sounds in their own language, and enriched them with vowels 
for such sounds as were not satisfactorily defined for them by those cha- 
racters. If, accordingly, we read the second word of the fourth inscription 
yopy, we can scarcely refrain from comparing it with the word ‘Iw, which, 
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