COMPARISON OF LANGUAGES. 



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LATIN. 



Invictum animi robur ostensit. 

 Invincible of mind strength he displayed. 

 Onuiia delicarum instrumetita e 

 All of delicacies the intruments from 



castris ejecit. 

 camp he cast. 



SIOUX. 



Tepe nea-tour toocta? 



Non amo nimiuni diligentes. 

 Not I love overmuch the careful. 



Lodge your own where is it ? 



Mea warchce ranzarka nea-tour. 



1 want gun your own. 

 Kokepa warneche wecharclia ha 



Afraid nothing the man is. 



Minewarka appello warktashne ha 

 Medicine-water [ say not good is, 



A mere glance at tiie foregoing will at once show the constructional 

 similarity between the two ; and, to illustrate the proposition still farther, I 

 nere subjoin yet other proofs of a more important relationship : 



SIOUX. 



LATIN. 



Appello, (pros, ind., 1st per. sing.; inf. 

 appellare,) I declare, I ■proclaim. 



Bestia, a wild beast. 



Caeca, uncerlain, ambiguous, confu- 

 sed, rash. 



Cogor, one who collects, brings togeth- 

 er, compels, forces, or heaps up. 



Mea, (meus, a, um,) nf or belonging 

 tome. 



Mena, a narrow sharp fish. 



Ne, (tills when affixed to a word or a 

 sentence gives it a negative signi- 

 fication,) no, not. 



Papae, rare, excellent, wonderful. 



Pater, father. 



Pes, the foot. 



Taurus, a bull. 



Tepor, warmth. 



Tuor, (tui, tutus sum,) to look, to see. 



Appello, I declare, I proclaim, I tell, 



I make known. 

 Beta, a buffalo. 



Ceicha, bad, disorderly, unsound. 

 Cogor, a maker of anything, a manur 



facturer, one who -produces a thing 



by an ingenious arrangement of 



materials. 

 Mea, /, myself, me. 

 Mena, a knife. 

 Ne, (this word is used precisely the 



same as in Latin, and has a similar 



meaning,) not. 

 Papa, meat, flesh used for food. 

 Pater, fire. 

 Pea, the foot. 

 Tau, (or tah,) a bull. 

 Tape, a lodge. 

 Tula, (astonishment,) look! see there! 



I might pursue this comparison to a yet greater extent, were my know- 

 ledge of Sioux sufiiciently full and critical for the task, (for I have a firm 

 confidence that many other similarities might be pointed out, quite as glar- 

 ing in their character as any of the above ;) but, enough, I trust, has al- 

 ready been said to fortify the position so lart^ely warranted by the pre- 

 mises, to wit: that in former ages the Romans maintained a foulhold upon 

 the American continent, aad had intercourse with this nation, either by arms 

 or by commerce. 



The argument drawn from the foregoing is still further strengthened, 

 when we take info consideration the fact, that language is couHtantly vary- 

 ing ui its form, and changing the meaning and pronunciation of its words, 

 as time progresses. To exempUfy this more clearly and forcibly, let the 

 reader compare tlie works of standard Englisii authors of the present day 

 with those of the like not move than five hundred years since, and he will 

 leadily acknowledge the palpable indications of progi'essive cliange. 



