ETRURIA CAPTA. 217 



Fabretti 794. OTACILIVS • RVFVS • VARIA • NATVS 

 AO • VNAYA ■ AAPNAL AP 



erma bekari gori baratu karasa artu 



arama (darama) Beharri Gorri Baratu sortze artu 

 it bears Beharri Gorri 'Ba.vaXn.natmn hold! 



The verb eraman, to bear, makes darama in the 3 sing. pres. 

 indie. In Etruscan this initial d is consistently dispensed with. In 

 this inscription it is evident that the Etruscan characters do nob ■ 

 coincide with the Latin. This is no case of correspondence like 

 Caulias, Sentis, Licini and Voluranius. The artist has been honest 

 as well as ingenious. Wishing to translate the name Bekari, now 

 beharri, helarri, an ear, tlie original form of which probably survives 

 m. jnkero, the ass, (long ears), by a recognized Latin proper name, he 

 took that of the Otacilian gens in which, rightly or wrongly, he 

 recognized the Greek otikos. The following gorri, i-ed, he translated 

 Rufus. The name read Yaria is harder to explain as an equivalent 

 of Baratu. The present Basque word nabar, bigarr^, answering in a 

 measure to the Japanese inabure, woukl perfectly reproduce Varia. 

 In my paper on the Aztec and its Relations I have shown how, in 

 Aztec, paVi denotes both colour and contents, like the Japanese iro 

 and iru, which in composition become biro and biru ; and have 

 suggested a similar relation between the Basque bar, within, and a 

 primitive bal or bar, the root of beltz, baltz, black, meaning colour. 

 The Japanese for Varia is iro-dori. As the equivalent of this I suppose 

 an ancient Basque or Etruscan baratu, of which baitu, spotted, may 

 be the representative. 



Fabretti 793. C • VENSIVS • C • F ■ OAIV'S 



FEL ■ FENJILE • AL8NALISLE 

 aginza egin kaitch u sane rasalakarasaunosune 

 aginza egin Kaitch Usena Rusellae sortze onetzen 

 offering makes Kaitch, Usena RuseUis natum to esteem 



In this case Kaitch or Kaich is Caius, and Vensius is the Latin 

 translation of Usena. The latter word now means " a leech." Of 



Mr. VanderSmissen also points out the frequent recurrence of the gentile names Vibia 

 Vercinia as : 



1453, &c. FI/II • FEPCNAM 



These characters read : agubau aginduchikarano 



The first may be gai bahi, see 1480, or it may be a name. The second word contains agindu, 

 the verb, to command or promise. It is premature to pronounce on the meaning of chikara, 

 eskari. The final no is probably the genitive. 



