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21. AVPABELVYESNEDAMNECEI i" 

 rapitura uinesapikunenokaneturaiiokanechiueu 

 arrapatura Alin azpi gune noku ne Turano kian eznai 



accept to Dominion under us to fails who Tyrrhenia he did despise 



22. YESNMYEIMDAMNEMlimOM/t iss 



kunenoka.nokuneunoturanokanenogoumimonoba 

 gune noku naga ne on Turano ganaino goye imi ema no ba- 

 ns to fails hates who good Tyrrhenia towards word place giving of 



23. ELOVYAMCVNAASVNAmENA i^^ 

 nesamabekuranochipikararalapikaraminekara 



-nais ambe gure aintzi pikor Ralapika ra min ekarri- 



I am very desirous to inform contributions Ralapika to grief bringing 



24. BEN • NA/lEP • CIONLBAPEVYVME "" 

 ulneka karabanetu chiuchikasaulartunepikupinone 



Alin ka ekarri banetu chehe zekesa ahal arten bu jabenen 

 Dominion by to bring uniting little niggard contempt receive does of 

 the lords 



137 Line 21. arrapatu ra : arrapatu, in Etruscan arpetu, erpetu, is often used as a synonym 

 of artti, to hold, receive. The ra marks the infinitive to narri. 



Alin azpi gune noku ne : Alin, the dominion, azpi under, gune, to us, noku, fails, ne, who. 



Turaan kian eznai: there is a change of tense which I have elsewhere observed in Etruscan 

 construction, but cannot account for. The preceding noku is in the present, while kian marks 

 the past of eznai. As for eznai, literally, to wish not, it is not Basque so far as I know. An 

 analngous form ez-ezerten artu means, to despise. The Japanese forms verbs of contempt and 

 dislike with iya, the equivalent of ez, such as iyagari, iyashime. The Choctaw does the same 

 with ik, ikahninchoh, ikahobuloh. 



138 Line 22. gune noku naga ne on Turaan ganaino: for this peculiar construction see line 4. 

 goye imi ema no : for goye imi see line 13 ; ema no, of giving. 



138 Line 23. hanaiz ambe gure aintzi: for ianaiz = naiz, see Left Side 1-4. The following 

 ambe, great is an adverb qualifying gure, very desirous. This gure governs the preceding 

 clause, goye imi ema no, and on the goye imi depends aintzi, to warn or make known. ■ 



pikor Ralapika ra min ekarri; for pikor, contribution, see line 10. The Basque min, Etrus- 

 can mine, means grief, pain, and desire. This must be read: "the contributions bringing 

 (testifying) grief to Ralapika." 



1*0 Line 24. Aliri ka : ka is the postposition, by. Thus it reads : " By the dominion, ekarri 

 banetu, uniting to bring, pikor, &c., contributions." 



chehe zekesa : for zekesa, see line 19. The preceding chehe means little, a synonym of ehipi. 

 In Etruscan cliipi is used in a good sense, chehe, in a bad. 



ahal is the same in form as al, ahal, power, but here, as in the Eugubine Tables sometimes 

 it signiKes shame, contempt, being the radical of the present aha'-ge. 



arten bu jabenen : the verb artu, artzen, is here arten, the Etruscan equivalent of the lattei'. 

 The accompanying auxiliary is Etruscan be, but I have represented it by bu as that 3 sing- 

 imperative form is the only one in Basque which preserves the old synonym of du,. The Etrus- 

 can has beno or pino for " he did," answering to the modified imperfect banu in Basque. The 

 form oibanu, or beno in the present tense in Etruscan was be. Jabenen, in Etruscan gubenone, 

 is the genitive plural. 



