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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
A. The Vestine Inscription with brat.
T. Vetio | duno | didet | Herclo | Iovio | brat. | data.
1. This inscription, most easily consulted in Diehl's Alt-lat. Inschriften, No. 70, has been explained, beyond any reasonable doubt, by von Planta (Osk.-Umbr. Gram. 1. 304) as follows: ‘ The entire inscription is accordingly to be rendered thus: T. Vettius donum dat Herculi Iouio; merito data, sc. est or sunt, according as the votive offering was feminine singular or neuter plural.’ The very abbreviation of brat. favours a formulaic word such as merito. Von Planta accounts also for all other dialectic occurrences of the stem brato-, vindicating a sense of meritum (quasi gratia) for all of them.
page 37 note 1 In Irish mraich, ‘malt’, the stem mr-ac comes in fact from mr-ā: mer, ‘pulverize’(see § 11).
page 38 note 1 Here ā= IE.ē but the root smēi-k (so Hirt, Ablaut, No. 96) belongs with smāi (ib. No. 95; others in contempt of Doric σμᾱσαμενα write smēi), ‘friare’ (‘rub,’ ‘wipe,’ ‘anoint’): smēi in σμῴχει, ‘rubs’ (‘grinds’), σμ⋯μα, ‘scrubbing material’ (sand before soap); cf. Lat. rāpumvs., OH. rāba (ā from ē). Of course ᾱ in βorhoμᾱk- may be due to a paradigmatic levelling between a pre-Greek nominative smēk-s or smōk-s: gen. sm∂k-ós.