ETRURIA CAPTA. 209 



The first word, which is really a form of raho, towards, I have 

 already set forth as the original of many modern Basque terms 

 denoting sympathy. It is in an old dative or ablative case syn- 

 onymous with that in n, and answering to the modern locative. The 

 dignified title, lady mother, is now shortened to amandria. 



374. 0.4NA ■ APYNEI ■ LO marakara ai-tukokanio asma 



MA.LTNAL naresaugarasa 



marakara Artuko ganio asma andre sa uga eritsa 

 memorial Artuko concerns indication wife and mother's esteem 



Here sa is the shortened form of basci, and, both forms of which 

 have already been met with. 



423. AVLE • SEIANYI ■ MINV arpisune noneurakakuu noukapi 

 LAPOAL • FISCVSA zaratumarasa agiunochipinare 



CLAN chisaraka 



arpizuen non orogogoi naugabe ; zarratumai eritsa Agiunochipi andre. 

 ' zazu erruki 



behold ye where memory in it me has deprivation; written table 

 honors Agiuno little wife, have compassion 



Behold where my bereavement is held in memory. The engraved 

 tablet honours the wife of Agiuno the little. Have sy-npathy.^^^ 



Every word in this inscription has previously occurred, except the 

 last. This is the clan, filius, of the Etruscologists, which has sent 

 theui on a wild goose chase over the world. It always stands out 

 distinct from other words, while terms of r-elationship generally 

 adhere. It means have pity, compassion, sympathy, being the second 

 plural impei'ative of </ut united to erraki. The following j)rayer of 

 a votive inscription illustrates it.^'^'^'^ 



101 Fabretti reads 42:j, thus : 



AVLE • SEIA.VYI • MI arbezueri noneur.igogoi nou 

 LAPO.VL • YISCVSN zaratumarasa kuunoehipinoka 



aL • CLAN rasa chisaraka 



arbe zuen non orogogoi nau zarratuniai eritza Goino Cliipiuo sortze zazu rako 

 Beh lid ye where remembrance in he me has: the engraved space esteems Goino 

 Chipino natum, Have sympathy. 

 There is evidently something wanting at the end of the first line. 



loio ,\lr. VanderSmissen has sent me an inscription containing another form of this request 

 for sympathy. It was found at Volaterrae : 



abretti, 254. A ■ YIYE ■ A • CALB-- CLANYL ■ A-IVNAM ■ PIL • XXIIIX 

 ra kuukune ra chira^ane chisarakakusa rabapikarano tuusa 27 

 ara Koikune ara j irri zuen zazu erruki ikusa Arbapika rano du atso 27 

 Behold Koikune behold present she did ; have sympathy looking Arbapika 

 tiiwards. He has age 27. 



