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fixes, both to personal and place names, as Vel~aQri, Vel-suna, the 

 Etr. goddess Vol-tumna, the family names Vel-usna, Vel-ce, Vel- 

 imna, the prsenomens Vel, Vel-Our, and many others. 



They occur with equal frequency in the Libyan epigraphy, as 

 W(Ins. 167, 200), Volt (Ins. 146, 148), in Volux, son of the 

 Numidian Bocchus (Sallust, Jugurtha, 105), etc. 



6. Proper Names from Corippus. 



A. Cresconius Corippus was an African bishop who lived at the 

 court of Justinian, and wrote a description, in good Latin verse, of 

 the successful campaign of Johannes, a proconsul, against the Mau- 

 ritanians, about 550. His epos, called the Johannis, is peculiarly val- 

 uable for my purpose on account of the numerous Libyan proper 

 names it contains, defaced no doubt by forcing them into smooth 

 Latin forms, but often recognizable in their radicals. 



In comparing them with the Etruscan onomasticon we must re- 

 member that nearly 1800 years had brought their changes on 

 Libyan speech since the Etruscan colonists quitted the African 

 shores. 



I shall not undertake to do more than present a list of names 

 from Corippus, side by side with others from Corssen's Sprache der 

 Efrusker, to illustrate their strong phonetic resemblance and occa- 

 sional identity. To discover their etymology and signification is a 

 task I must leave to future students. 



Comparison of Libyan personal names from Corippus with Etruscan 

 personal names from Corssen : 



LIBYAN. ETRUSCAN. 



afun, afuna. 



alantas, aleOna. 



ancus, ancan. 



anestus, anes. 



arcan, arcenzios. 



azan, ezunu. 



bezina, felzinal. 



burantOj fardana. 



caggun, caicun. 



