88 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



thei'e are in the writings of Greek and Roman authors some forty or 

 fifty Etruscan words, transliterated into Latin characters. So far as 

 these words go, they are important, and yet they do not throw much 

 light on the construction of the language, and they form a vei'y meagre 

 vocabulary ; but this one thing they do, they confirm the bilingual 

 insci'iptions in establishing the character of the letters. As this is 

 the point which Prof. Campbell pooh-poohs, it will be necessary to 

 consider it foi- a little, and we shall take one or two examples of 

 bilin^;ual inscriptions : 



V • LECNE V ■ PAPIRINAL 

 VEL • LICINIUS VEL • PAPIRI NATUS. 



Now are we wrong in siipposing that V of the first line corresponds 

 with V of the second line, and the L of the first with the L of the 

 second, and the whole of the word Papiri of the first with the word 

 Papiri of the second? But before n in Etruscan the preceding 

 vowel is always syncopated— tl.e Latin Capeiia is the Etruscan Capua, 

 the Latin Marcanius the Etruscan Marcna, and so Menelaus = Menle, 

 Herakles = Herkle, and here the Latin Licinius is the Etruscan 

 Lecne ; the i and e being often interchanged. The suffix AL is a 

 masculine genitive termination, and is of constant occurrence in the 

 monumental inscriptions, as Ai-nthal of Arnth, Larthal of Larth, or 

 son of Larth ; just as in Latin we say Marcus Tullii, Marcus the son 

 of Tullius, and the Papirinal of the above inscription is rende ed in 

 Latin Papiri natus, and the whole inscription reads, Velleius Licinius, 

 the son of Velleius Papirus. While at is the masculine suffix, the 

 corresponding feminine suffix is -alisa, and we have this inscription, 

 where both the father's and mother's names are given : 



LARIS FRAUCXE VELUSA LATINIALISA. 



LARIS FKAUCNE the son of VELUSE and LATINIA. 



Similai' inscriptions are very common, and a number may be found 

 in Prof. Campbell's Etraria Capta. But the Eugubiue Tables, being 

 principally in the form of rituals, pi-esent several formulae which 

 occur in the Tables of the Etruscan, and also of the Latin or 

 Umbrian character. Compare the following formulae as they occur 

 in the Etruscan chai-acters of the first Table, and in the Latin char- 

 acters of the sixth Table : 



Etr. — Vukukum : inviu : pune : uvef : furfath : tref : vitluf : turuf : marte : 

 hurce : 



