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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
fond §, No 6., Pun, 9,456, 
of the coin mentioned above, is pasted a woodcut 
of an elephant lifting a barrel on his tusks. The 
two following slips from booksellers’ catalogues 
are also inserted : 
_ Priezac (Salom.), Z’ Histoire des Eléphants, 
18mo., Paris, engraved frontispiece, 18s.” 
“Paullini (C. F.), Cynographia Curiosa seu 
canis descriptio juwta methodum et legis, 8s., 4to. 
Norimb. 1685. ] 
Prora Poxsis. 
[Douce’s notes in his copy of Picta Poesis, a Book of 
Emblems, 16mo., Lugd., 1564. ] 
The author of this little work, who has modestly | 
concealed his name*, was Bartholomew Aneau. 
He was inhumanly murdered at Lyons in 1465. 
See an account of him in Juvigny’s Bibliothéques 
de Du Croiz de la Maine, et de Du Verdier, tom. i. 
p- 78., and tom. iii. p. 208. See also Clement, 
Bibliothéque Curieuse, tom. i. p. 400., who says 
that this book is very scarce. 
V. Comm. Minoes in Embl. Alciat., 185. 
Two Cuts by J. Cousin (?). 
THE EUGUBIAN TABLES. 
Has the meaning of the inscriptions on the re- 
nowned Eugubian tables ever been satisfactorily 
made out? It is generally believed that they 
contain the ritual form of an Umbrian tribe, but 
has this been proved? I believe not, and I pro- 
pose a new solution of the difficulty, in the hope 
that it may be acceptable to all those who are 
interested in the recovery of the lost languages of 
ancient Italy. I subjoin the first seven or eight 
lines of the first table, with interlinear and free 
translations : 
“Pune carne speturie atiierie _ abiecate naraclum _ bortus 
* ““Poeni of Cyrnus, peace eternal between them and the Rasenie tribes, 
estuesuna fetu fratrusper atiierie eu asum | esu_naratu 
whom they have made brothers eternal. They on their side (the Rasena) 
bere carna speturie atiierie _abiecata aiu urtu  fefure 
keep to the Cyrni, peace eternal. Betweenthem ....... 
fetu pusseneiperetu pestisesase sacre iubebatrefum peracne 
ni CHER wale eiks Davie rcerer sel 9 Holy Jupiter, witness the Rasena’s 
peracne restatu 
peace! The Rasena againeall Jove, 
sanufetu arbiu ustentu 
what they have made, The water upper, 
arebearbes panapuneiue 
The other water, Pcenian port 
speture inbie 
e 
to see 
puni  fetu tasesg 
the Peni make settlements 
unu 
one 
one great and holy, 
surupesutrn 
pesnimu 2 
above Pisa may be 
not upon. 
cea &e. 
made,” &¢e. 4 
Free Translation. 
«“ There shall be an everlasting peace between the Car~ 
thaginians settled in Corsica, and the Etrurians, whom the | 
Carthaginians have made their brothers for ever. The 
Etrurians, on their part, are to preserve an everlasting 
peace toward the Carthaginians. Between them 
* See the end of the book, where he is called “ B. Anu- 
lus” (subsequently added), 
unuerietusacre pel- | 
.... Holy Jupiter, witness this peace ; the Etrurians 
again call on Jove, the great and holy one, to witness it. 
“ Art, 1, The Carthaginians are prohibited from making 
settlements on the upper sea (the Adriatic). On the 
uscan sea they are at liberty to make one settlement, 
provided it be north of Pisa,” &c. 
It will be seen from the above translations, that 
I suppose the Eugubian tables to contain the 
record of a treaty or treaties between Htruria and 
the Carthaginians, My idea is confirmed by the 
frequent appearance of the words pune and puni 
(Peni), cartu (table 1.1, 23. Carthage), aferum 
(table 2.1.10. in the phrase “ puni puplum afe- 
rum,” 72. ¢. the Poenian population of Africa), 
&c., in the inscriptions. 
It may be proper to notice, that Sir William 
| Betham (Celtica-Etruria, from which work the 
| 
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inscriptions whence my translations have been 
made are copied) has already suggested that pune, 
puni, is Pheenician, and purtius, port; but further 
than this we cannot follow him, for he actually 
believes the Eugubian tables and the Perugian 
inscription (that refractory Etruscan monument, 
on the elucidation of which I am now occupying 
myself) to be written in veritable Irish, and to 
record certain voyages to Ireland, &e, 
If my translations turn out to be correct, we 
have made a great gain for history. Aristotle 
tells us that treaties were made between Carthage 
and the Etrurian cities, and why may not this be 
one? Perhaps at some future period I may at- 
tempt to explain the causes which led to the 
making of these treaties, and particularly the first 
one with Rome, Epwarp Wrst. 
3. Pump Row, Old Street. 
P. 8. Now that I am on the subject of the lost 
languages of ancient Italy, permit me to add to 
my list (2°. i. 11.) of Italian towns with two 
names, Aurinia, alias Caletra, and Felsina, alias 
Bononia. I have constructed etymologies for my 
former batch, but their accuracy is too doubtful 
| to warrant publication. 
AGES OF MAN. 
In “N. & Q.” (Vol. viii., p. 240.), parallels to 
Shakspeare’s “Seven Ages,” in As You Like It, 
were given. In the dialogue Axiochus, attributed 
to Plato, the number of ages is four, as also in 
Horace (Ars Poetica), 158—170.); thus: 
Plato [?). Horace. 
Njrvos. Puer. 
‘Exraerios, Imberbis juvenis, 
*EdijBos. Virilis xtas. 
Thpas. Senex. 
But in the Mishna the ages are fourteen, given 
thus by Jehuda, son of Thema (Pirke Avoth, iv. 
482., Surenhusius) : Soa 
“At 5 years old, for the Scripture; at 10, for the 
