ETRURIA CAPTA. 183 



mopi nor a mopira, literally 2, 4, 8 ; but no doubt meaning " twice 

 four is eight." With the six dice numbers, this new found 8, and 

 the 10 of inscription 28, we have but 7 and 9 to determine. The 

 second line reads none sara nonera. Here sara is an abbi-eviation 

 of saragi, -k The first word none is not a numeral, nor can it be the 

 adverb where. It must, therefore, be an old form of noiz, meaning 

 when, but the compounds of which give " times," as noiz edo noiz, 

 one time or another. Thus none sara will mean 3 multiplied into 

 itself, and nonera will be 9. Besides pimo in the third line, which 

 is an abbreviation of the commoner form of alpimo, the only other 

 word that I clearly recognize, is nonechi in the fourth. This 

 occurs on a child's monument, and must furnish the missing 1 }^ The 

 final no of molaneno gives ordinal power, as is proved by inscrip- 

 tions which furnish skino, mira(joiio, alpimono, &c. In composition 

 this long form for 10 is reduced in size and its I changed to r, just 

 as 8 reads mopila or mopira. 



Lanzi, Vol. II. AV • FELS • CVS • OV/ILOAM • AL/IAN . YVPCE^t 



' ' ' rapi aginza no chipino mopibasamorano arsa baraka kupidochine 

 arpi aginza n chipin 12 urte berek Cupid-zena 

 take (heed) of the offering of the little one, twelfth year his 

 Cupid dead 



Here 7Hopi==2 and niorano for molaneno^ 10. Indeed, as no 

 is the old ordinal form, 7nora will be 10 and agree with the present 

 aiThar. The intermediate hasa thus furnishes the Etruscan and, 

 which in Basque is eta, probably a borrowed word. It survives in 

 haita, also. In arjn appears a form of artu, take, which furnishes 

 arheza, let him take. The same root occurs in arrapatu, seize, 

 irabazi, gain, erpetu, to claw. Both aginza and chipi are in the 

 genitive. The possessive hereh properly appears, taking the place so 

 far occupied by the demonstrative. Cupido or Cupid was a com- 

 mon boy's name among the Etruscans, judging by the evidence 

 of the monuments. Chine must be zen, he was, or zena, defunct. 



Lanzi, Vol. III. FELIAM • 8ANACNAL • 0V8 • LOAM ■ AL/lAN ■ • • 58 



with liguie of' aginza urano larakarachi karasa mopila samorano arsa baraka 



half Ins"' nntion ^Si^za aurren Larrikarachi sortze 18 urte berek 



for comparison, offering of the child Larrikarachi born of 18th year his 



66 See note 37, page 165. 



Sif The second character V is wanting in Fabretti. If he is right, read ara, behold. 



68 The whole inscription is as follows : 



FELIAM • SANACNAL • 0V8 • LO.\M 



