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Fabretti 1496. P • VOLVMNIVS • A ■ F • VIOLENS 

 PL xxxvi. CAFATIA • NATVS 



/iV/lFELlmNA AV CA8AYIAL 



In the last group the second A is indistinct. The name occurs 

 in Lanzi 62, 63, 165 and elsewhere, so that A is well attested. 



bapiba aginsaumikara arpi zeralarakuii rasa 

 Papiba Egmezaumak ra arpi Zerulurrekoi sortze 

 Papiba Egmezaumak, to behold Zerulurrekoi natus 



The most important name in this group is Eginezaumak which 

 translates Volumnius, the man of the book. Scriptor or Librarius 

 would have done as well, but they did not represent Roman gentes. 

 The first part of the word is egi7i, to do or make. The second, 

 ezaumak, or in Etruscan zaumika, survives in Basque only as 

 esemesaJc, opinion, saying ; for liburu, the Latin word, has displaced 

 the native name. The Etruscan word must have been derived, how- 

 ever, not from esan, to say, but from ezaun, ezagicn, to know. The 

 Japanese word for a book is shomotsu, and the Loochooan, shimutsi. 

 This word is exceedingly old, for it appeal's iu the ancient Accadian 

 of Chaldea, a thoroughly Turanian language, as samak, sicvmk, a 

 library : Sayce's Assyrian Grammar, p. 16, Nos. 175, 176. The 

 only other litarary people of the Khitan, the Aztecs, preserved the 

 word for book in an abbreviated form as amox. Thus Eginezaumika 

 is the bookmaker, or author, or scribe. The preceding Bapiba is 

 probably the original of the Latin Fabius, which denoted a gens 

 eminent in literature and art, and persistently connected with 

 Etruria : Dennis' Ecruria, Vol. I., p. 425. Q. Fabius Pictor was 

 the earliest Roman historian, as his grandfather had been the tii'st 

 artist. Two other Roman historians, Cincius and Sisenna, bore 

 Etruscan names. Bapiba is the word ti'anslated Violeiis. The nearest 

 equivalent in Basque is buhumha, by which the Greek la Haps and 

 Latin turbo are translated in the Testament of Rochelle, Mark iv. 37. 

 Tiie Japanese furnishes the corresponding words bq/u and Jubuki, 

 and the Qhoci'AVf,fajoah,fo23ah, the roaring of the wind. The Basque 

 jjonipoila, a surging billow and pampots, palpitation, are probably of 

 the same origin. The remaining proper name is that of Cafatia, in 

 Etruscan zeru-lurre-koi. The first part is zeru, heaven, but also 

 meaning (Lecluse, voute) a ceiling or vaulted roof. The second part 

 htrre koi, has occurred in the forms larrenokoi, lurrezkoi, denoting an 



