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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> Does anybody know the etymology and meaning of Metius Fufetius?
Fufetius seems to have existed as gentile, family name, in Oscan.
C.D. Buck
A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, p. 252
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Inscriptions from Other Campanian Towns
40. Cumae (?). Several fragments of a lead plate in the possession of
the Naples Museum and believed to have come from Cumae. It is
evidently of the same character as nos. 19-20 from Capua. The portion
of the text given here is made up of two of the larger fragments.
Conway no. 137 c, f, g, v. Pl. no. 119 V (where the fragments are united).
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[Upis?] Mut[ti]lli[s . .
[Gnai]vs Fuvfdis Ma . .
Dekis Buttis,
Dekis Rahiis Maraheis niir,
kulupu
Dkuva Rahiis Upfalleis,
Marahis Rahiis Papeis,
Dekis Hereiis Dekkieis Saipinaz,
Maras Rufriis, Maras Blaisiis
Marah[ei]s,
Dekkieis Rahiieis, Uppiieis
Muttillieis,
Dekkieis Heriieis akkatus inim
trstus
sullus inim eisunk uhftis
sullum [s]ullas.
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[Oppius] Mutilius ... ,
Gnaeus Fufidius ...,
Decius Bottius,
Decius Raius Marae f. princeps,
culpa (eius est),
------Raius Ofelli f.,
Marius Raius Papi f.,
Decius Herius Decii f. Saepinas
Maras Rubrius, Maras Blaesius
Marae f.,
Decii Raii, Oppii
Mutilii,
Decii Herii advocati et
testes
omnes et eorum voluntates
omnium omnes.
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Torsten