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(io) to -the Latin, or Roman, letters TIE. The 
whole infcription is therefore f |/ Q, 
FIR, or rather '‘FVR, ANTIL, 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 ; which, 
according to(n)Sig. Olivieri, exhibits the words 
AGRE TLAT 1 E, equivalent to AGRI LATH, and 
is diredtly 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 "V®, 
PVR, PHVR, or FVR, in (12) Hebrew, or, as 
fome 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 
(11) Una Lettera del Signor Annibale degli Abati Olivieri, 
iffc. Al Signor Abate Barthelemy, p. 42. In Pefaro, 1757. 
(12) Efth. III. 7. 
(13) Val. Schiad. Lex Pentaglot. p. 1432. Hanovise, 1612. 
(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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