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(io)to the Latin, or Roman, letters TIE. The 

 whole infcription is therefore ^j ^ \**Q ^ \f Q t 

 FIR, or rather FVR, ANTIE, SORS, FORS, or 

 FORTUNA, ANTII, altogether equipollent to the 

 Latin infcription above it. That FVR ANTIE, in 

 the antient Etrufcan language, ought to be rendered, 

 in Latin, FORS, SORS, or FORTVNA, ANTII, is 

 apparent, from one of the Tables of Gubbio j which, 

 according to(n)Sig. Olivieri, exhibits the words 

 AGRE TLATIE, equivalent to AGRI LATH, and 

 is directly in point. Hence we may conclude, that 

 FIR, or rather FVR, anfwers to the FORS, or 

 FORTVNA, of the Latins, the Etrufcans ufing 

 conftantly V for O; and confequently that *N5, 

 PVR, PHVR, or FVR, in (12) Hebrew, or, as 

 Ibme will have it, in the (13) antient Perfic, FIR, or 

 FVR, in Etrufcan, and FORS, or FORTVNA, 

 in Latin, denoted the very fame thing. 



V. 



That SORS, or SORTES, and FORTVNA, 

 probably the fame deity, (14) were worfhiped both 



(10) Anton. Francifc. Gor. ubi fup. p. 407, 409, 414,417 



( 1 1 ) Una Lettera del Signor Annibale degli Abati Olivieri, 

 &c. Al Signor Abate Barthelemy, &c. p. 42. In Pefaro, 1757. 



(12) Efth. IN. 7. 



(13) Val. Sch'md. Lex Pentaglot. p. 1432. Hanovise, 161 2* 



(14) Hence we find the celebrated temple of the lots, or 

 Sortes, at Praenefte to have been alfo denominated the temple 

 of fortune ; nor do I doubt but the famous temple of the 

 lots or sortes, at Antium went likewife under that denomina- 

 tion. Sig. Havercamp, ubi fup. p. 324, 325, 



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