Etruscans, Tyrrhenians or Tuscans, 177 
The word Votum is to be found also in conjunction with a- 
nother word which we see in this inscription, the word DUIR, 
which is the same as the Latin word Dare,which is eminently 
a Verbum Solemne being one of the Tria verba (Do Dico 
Dedico) referred to in Ovids Fasta. 
Tile ne fastus erit per quem tria verbasilentur. 
Fastus erit per quem lege licebit agi Ovid. Fast. lib. 1, 
After the defeat of the Consul Flaminius, by Hannibal at 
Lake Thrasymine the Decemvirs according to Livy, made 
the public Vow of a Ver sacrum, st bellatum prospere essit, 
resque publica in eodem quo ante bellum fuisset statu per 
mansisset. Ia the rogation of the Law to carry this into ef- 
fect, the following words will be found donum duit—where 
this word evidently stands for dat, 
The same word is found in the vow made by Appius, inter 
prima Signa, with his hands lifted to Heaven, as was the 
form: Bellona hodie nobis si Victoriam Duis, ast ego templum 
tibi vovco. 
A compound of this root is to be found in the fourth table 
of the 12 tables, (Gothof. 4 fontes &c.) Si pater familias ter 
filium venum duit liber esto. 
The word farer is probably the same word as fart which 
isa verbum solenne. It is also probable that the terminations 
erand ier are terminations of the infinitive mood in the an- 
cient Etruscan tongue. Fasti sunt quibus licet furé prectori 
tria verba solemnia Do Dico Dedico. Macrob. Saturnal [. 
16. 
I am led to suppose that this may be an Etruscan termina- 
tion of the infinitive—for the following reasons. It is more 
ancient than the common Latin termination of re. We meet 
with it in some of the ancient forms as in the word Agier for 
Agere. Lucretius who was fond of old locutions uses it fre- 
quently as also does Persius ; and Horace more sparingly 
than either, following the rule which he expresses so well, 
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