ETRURIA, CAPTA. 193 



Another votive tablet seems to refer to Alcmeiia.™ 



328. LAPO • 8EPINA zarratu ma • lanetu uga ra 

 FELVM aginza piuo 



Translation — Written tablet Hercules mother to presented I have 



There is no doubt about Lanetu denoting Hercules, for that hero, 

 with club complete, appears on many Etruscan gems bearing this 

 name. As I have already stated, it is the Basque landu, lanth, 

 work, labour. The Eugubine Inscriptions show that there was an 

 oflScer in the Etruscan confederacy so called, whose duties are not 

 defined. The only other thing chat calls for mention in this inscrip- 

 tion is the first appearance of the auxiliary verb dut, to have. In 

 modern Basque, " I did," or the imperfect of dut, is nuen. The form 

 hanu, which is the ^mo or henu of the text, now means "if I did.'' 

 But the present conjunctive was the old indicative form, as appears 

 in the Eugubine Tables in many phrases, like artuhenion Arretigi nen, 

 I received him into Arretium. The Etruscans also expressed " he 

 has" by be, which, in the form hu, is now imperative, "let him 

 have." Banu occurs also in the following. 



334. OANIFILVM • CAIAL • EIN 



marakagu egihatz pino Zerua eritsa ni uga 



maragogo egihatz banu Zerua eritsa ene uga 



memorial engraved I have Zerua honours my mother 



The memorial I have engraved, it honours my mother Zerua 



The form maragogo, to which I referred when dealing with No. 

 41, here replaces marakara. The second word egihatz, an inversion 

 of hatz egin, to scratch, has also been before us in No. 2. The 

 auxiliary banu stands in the same relation to this verb as that in 

 which it stands to aginza in the preceding inscription. The pronoun 

 ene is the Basque possessive, my. 



The next inscription furnishes a different form of the auxiliary. 



287. 

 OANIA . mAPCIA maraka harri " miratuchiura maraka harri miratuchiu ra 

 /lEPSYIESA banetunokuune anre banetu nuqueyen andre 



Translation — Indication stone Miratuchiu to ; joined would I had, the wife'^ 



'"> Alcmena is a name that migbt easily be taken for Etruscan. Alcnian, the poet, was 3 

 native of Sardis, in Lydia, a Hittite region. The word Lucumo, which is SING, alhaukamo, is 

 of the same apparent formation. 

 '1 I find the same proper name in Lanzi (No. 18). 

 LADOI ■ mApCI • piL TX 

 zarratu mai Miratuchiu du atso LX 

 It is on a woman's monument. 



