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It is a curious coincidence, that, to this day, Gwaith Mwyn, in 

 Wales, always means " a lead mine." From Moenus, or Munus, 

 a metal, came undoubtedly Moneta, "money." Cum. Mwnai, 

 " money coin," as in Ovid, Fast. v. 221, — 



" JEra dabant olim : melius nunc omen in auro est, 

 Victaque concedit prisca moneta novae, 11 



(The fable about Juno Moneta, root, moneo, with a Greek ter- 

 mination, is unworthy of serious notice), and Munus and Munera, 

 gifts. 



Secondly, Praeda, a prey, from the Cum. Praid, plur. Preidae. 



In Ow. Diet, we have the following explanation of Praid, " a 

 flock or herd ; also a booty or spoil of cattle taken in war." 



"Praid gyv-reithiol, pedair bu ar ugaint a Tharw," Welsh 

 Laws. " A legal herd, twenty-four cows, and a bull." In similar 

 Latin order, Praeda Corritualis, Quatuor boves super viginti et 

 Taurus. 



In the Latin transmitted to us, we find Praeda with the second- 

 ary meaning alone, acquired by the Romans at an early age, when 

 the robber wolf was their favourite emblem, and their neigh- 

 bours' flocks and herds were regarded as legitimate objects of 

 plunder. But there are, if I am not much mistaken, some Latin 

 words still extant, which were formed in a more Saturnian age, 

 when Praeda had not lost its proper signification of flocks and 

 herds. Among these are, 



Praedium, 

 Praes, 

 Praeditus. 

 Concerning the meaning of the word Praedium, there is no doubt. 

 All interpret it to be a farm or landed property. " Possessio," 

 says Forcellini, " omnia bona complectitur, mobilia et immo- 

 bilia ; Praedium immobilia tantum." The Roman philologists, if 

 we can honour them with the name, wished to derive Praedium 

 from Praes, a personal security, as if the first quality of landed 

 property, which would occur to a simple and early race, was 

 the power of mortgaging it. In later times, such a confu- 



