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and consequently had, in all probability, like the Etrurians, a particular 
form of adjective for metronymics. The correctness of this remark of 
Heroportus is borne out by Heractiwes Pontius,* and Prutarcn,t from 
which M. Samt-Mantin erroneously considered Maiivioc to be the genitive of 
Ilaivs, the name of a father ; and it is further corroborated by the fact that 
the god of the Lycian archers was called in preference Ayroi‘dyc. 
Whether the name Pwan has any relation to the Lycian name Ilaivy, we 
must leave undecided. But the name Lero or Larona probably originated 
in the designation of a woman, Jade, as we are to read the eleventh word of 
the third inscription. By this word we are made acquainted with two 
different characters representing a; one of which resembles the spiritus 
asper in the Heraclean tables, and has only a slight stroke too much in the 
third inscription ; while the other, which is always confounded with the p 
in the Carian inscription, is distinguished from the a merely by the want of 
a stroke. The first of these signs may be ana ; but the other in all pro- 
bability signified the same with the Latin @; at least, a mark is added to 
the character which occupies the place of the a in the middle of the fourth 
word of the third inscription, which mark no where else occurs, and in all 
likelihood indicates it to be a diphthong. The termination of the first word 
of the bilingual inscription would therefore be jeje. We find the same 
termination in the name in the fifth division of the fourth inscription, whilst 
the name corresponding thereto in the Carian inscription (the last character 
of which is apparently by mistake drawn to the word following next) has: 
the same termination as the second word of the first inscription, if we may 
assume the central mark of the second character to have been omitted by 
error. Hence, the first two words of the bilingual inscription are nouns, 
the first being perhaps equivalent to the Greek 73:, which must be read 
instead of TOAF in the Greek translation. But if the first word be a 
demonstrative pronoun, the second must signify tomb ; the yet undeciphered 
character in this word is probably an », or long e ; for in the fourth word it 
stands between pr and n, and elsewhere between compound consonants ; 
and appears to be merely a compound of two e’s. That the e was written 
also in the reversed form, is satisfactorily shewn by the third inscription. 
We find the digamma in the fourth word exchanged for a 7; and if we 
further consider that the inscription of some medals of the Cilician city 
* 15, + De Mul. virt. 9. 
