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what large 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 number. Different names of 

 magistracy such as questorand fratrecks are mantioned. The person 

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

 does not appear that the Attidian Confraternity was specially 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 people. Certain names coincide exactly 

 with Roman names. Such are Jupiter, Sancus and Mars. Other 

 names present a resemblance more or less remote as Fiscus, Grabovius, 

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

 Tefer, Trebiis, etc. We have here, 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 prepositions and personal pro- 

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

 guages. Pictet in his Be V affinite des Langues 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 etrangers aux auires branches de la famille ils offrent une 

 analogic tres curieuse avec les langues finnoises." In his Grammatica 

 Oeltica (p. 324.) Zeuss writes " Pronominum in utraque lingua, tam 

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

 aliis lingLiis Indeuropaeis per se posita plenam formam servent, sed 

 etiam. ... si sunt personalia ])Ost praepositiones suffigantur.'"' It 

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

 tion of personal pronouns with prepositions as a peculiar 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 

 l/y themselves, and apart from the particular meaning which they 



