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lada, the dative plural wives, in the Greek 

 ywai^iv. The dative singular lade occurs fre- 

 quently. In No. 5, Plate 36, of Sir C. Fellows, 

 the nominative singular is lada ; in No. 13 the 

 dative singular is ladu ; and in No. 18 ladue is 

 the dative plural. These variations of termi- 

 nation make one suspect that the language has 

 an instrumental case as well as a dative. 



eptteue, the Greek raig eavrojv. This appears to 

 be a close translation ; the word is the genitive 

 plural of themselves. We have the genitive sin- 

 gular eptteue in the upper inscription at p. 225 of 

 Sir C. Fellows's " Asia Minor ;" and in plate 36, 

 No. 5, of his " Lycia," we have another form of 

 the word, eptte. That inscription is very imper- 

 fect, and Mr. Daniell's copy of it does not enable 

 us to read it with any certainty, but it probably 

 runs urppe atla eppte, for themselves ; the latter 

 word being used adjectively, the phrase will thus 

 be analogous to the common form iirppe atle 

 eiiwe, for himself The nominative singular is 

 probably eptte. 



se tedeeme, and children, words of constant re- 

 currence. 



se ey e. This was at first translated whoever 

 (Appendix, p. 482), by deriving the meaning 



