2"J2 PROCEEDINGS OK THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



what liirge extent of the adjacent country. They call themselves 

 the Attidian Brethren, and the name of the Confraternity is given 

 to the College. They are twelve in nunTber. Difterent names of 

 magistracy such as questor and fratrecks ai"e mentioned. The person 

 who plays the principal jiart has the title of adfertur. ... It 

 does not appear that the Attidian Confraternity was s])ecially devoted 

 to the service of a single divinity. We perceive that it offered sacri- 

 fices to an entire series of gods and goddesses. Thanks to that cir- 

 cumstance, the Eugubine Tables furnish us with precious indications 

 of the Pantheon of an Italian peo[)le. Certain names coincide exactly 

 with Roman names. Such are Jupiter, Sancus and Mai-s. Other 

 names ])resent a resemblance more or less remote as Fiscus, Grabovius, 

 Cerfius. Other names, again, were entirely unknown, as Vofonius, 

 Tefer, Trebas, etc. We have hex'e, then, the monuments of an 

 indigenous worship which the Roman religion had not yet effaced.'' 



I have taken from the Umbrian Inscriptions certain words which 

 any one who has even a moderate knowledge of Irish or Scottish 

 Gaelic, can have no difficulty in admitting to be Gaelic. The com- 

 binations which are formed between jjrepositions and personal pro- 

 nouns in Gaelic, present a striking peculiarity of the Gaelic lan- 

 guages. Pictet in his De V affiuite des Lanyues Celtiques avec le 

 Sanscrit (pp. 170. 171.) virtually maintains that the points of 

 difference between the Celtic languages and the other members of 

 the Indo-European family of languages are confined, " to the permu- 

 tation of initial consonants, and to the composition of personal pro- 

 nouns with prepositions." " Quant aux composes pronominaux. . . . 

 s'ils sont efcrangers aux autres branches de la famille ils offrent une 

 analoa;ie tres curieuse avec les lanfijues finnoises." In his Grammatica 

 Celtica (p. 32-1.) Zeuss writes " Pronominum in utraque lingua, tarn 

 Hibernica quam Britannica ea proprietas est, ut non semper ut in 

 aliis liiiguis Indeuropaeis per se posita plenam formam servent, sed 

 etiam. ... si sunt personalia ]>ost praepositiones suffigantur.' It 

 thus appears that Scholars like Pictet and Zeuss regard the composi- 

 tion of personal pronouns with prepositions as a peculiai' feature in 

 the Celtic languages. 



I have chosen to consider the prepositional pronouns which I am 

 about to cite and which occur repeatedly in the Inscriptions, in and 

 hy themselves, and apart from the particular meaning which they 



