The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-14

ro fem travelling bv wagons The Celts left their
everywhere in Italy but especially in the north ana middle
districts Pisa from the time furnishing seaport
and mart is from pSSea profit Voaterra, cattle land
Vetuonia from eh o collection of habitations Gust as
Canada from the Indian candd number of hus oaere,
from cae sheep; Ruseon noted for its artcers IN en-
balmng the wood fit for biers Even the Roman
Tiber is from the Celtic bre spring or fountain as the
CLAIMS the river settlement of tribe is con-
sux the of rivers and places water The
modern word is hence "igbag the strong water in
which the Irish of old days fond of nduging Gin
is frequent prefix of old Roman personal Thus
Cincinnatus from cna the head of hundred men,
explanation which brings the military office of cenuran
very far back From the Celtic cean authority collective
power the later senatus senate All who have read
Caesars Commentaries remember the story of Verungeorix
which thus used as personal while twas official
fear gath a, the at the head of every expedition
Among other nations he conquered the Adult agr
cultural raced dr. of the land and the brave Nero
tege potent warriors The Vergobretus, who SO
important from his exercising judicial authority over the
Gaus from fear go br the of judgment. Did space
allow we should like follow the Dictator pathological
explanatory tour through the Celtic lands of Aquan Gau
the Pyrenees-aca an the rocky country and the
prosperous MARION territory-nar bddh, happy people
But find have already strayed too Tar away from
Etruria.
Donaldson his work the ancient languages of Italy
quotes several Eruscan Inscriptions which, have sad
he attempts to resolve into any Language rather than the
Celtic He adopts the strange theory that if that people
not Got their language was Gothic and at the same tune
applies Iceandc Greek and what not in making out the
meaning. AS example, take the following inscription.
copied from an ancient Eruscan vase dug up oy General
Gubusa at Cervetr:
Etha erai sic epana. me net nasa helapha.'
The above by of some ar-eched verbal analogie
he translates thus gHbly
there burning under ground water for thirsty lips
Without using such latitude of Interpretation, explain
alton of those ns from Celtic analoges and roots is
follows
M am the dust Of s s BET spua
spirit Tor apparition; commemorate grave
In Donaldsons translation, it is both moruary and
drinking somewhat impossible combinations whereas
appears evident twas mortuary containing the ashes
of one who had successfully titled the SOIL In all the Eus
pictures found in tomb the soul OF the
dead is seen flying to heaven on horse Etha was the the
that their language now limited to few inscriptions
and thirty words which have been ced out of classic
authors and that many of even these are impure 1t
singular thing however, that almost all the of rivers
districts cities in the Ean territory those of the gods of
Rome and very many of its iustrious men, receivable
into Celtic and that if the Erurians not branch of
that great family of nations such should be the case for If
they totally different people, they would certainly have
left the stamp of their language in the above directions And
it is the with these Inscriptions mutated they
and abbreviated such compositions omb and
almost always fact in itself which renders their inter
probation difficult Even the Greek epigrans preserved in
the socalled Anthology remarkable tor conclnnly
which frequently renders them obscure Those however,
written in full they have been collected from
the pages of Greek authors; while glance at
Gratenberg will show the abbreviated method generally
adopted in engravngs stone whose phrases familiar as
| texts, are merely indicated.
My opinion of the origin of those mysterious Eruscans,
based upon the relics of their language their architecture
mystery. believe them to have been early wave of
the great Celtic family who arrived in Italy by land crossing
that of which the Basque residue and that their peculiar
character formed like that of other people, by locality
circumstance that they derived their arts from
with Egypt and the early Greek colonies along the coast of
the Mediterranean at time when their peculiar civilization
in the bud when like the Erurian soul ures they
but sketch of the finished picture they afterwards became
We need scarcely add that the Irish ach@oogist Sir W.
Betham has written work, entitled Eruria Celtica in
valuable relics of antiquity the Engubean Tables that the
Etrurians Phencan-Celtic people. This work
great families of languages It is familiar knowledge
that the most rreagabe of ngual faton
and the Phonican belongs to the Semitic not the Aran
stock of languages from which the Cello is descended
which it was first westward wave the Greek the
last Of the Phenician all that remains is few in
ntions and few lines introduced into of the pays