--The three inscriptions of the clay vase from the Quirinal (p.

277, note) run thus: -iove sat deiuosqoi med mitat nei ted endo gosmis uirgo sied--asted noisi ope toilesiai pakariuois--duenos med faked (=bonus me fecit) enmanom einom dze noine (probably=die noni) med malo statod.-Only individual words admit of being understood with certainty; it is especially noteworthy that forms, which we have hitherto known only as Umbrian and Oscan, like the adjective -pacer- and the particle -einom with the value of -et, here probably meet us withal as old-Latin.
5.

I.II.

Art 6.

The name probably denotes nothing but "the chant-measure," inasmuch as the -satura- was originally the chant sung at the carnival (II.