It is true the Etruscan _Aesar_ is said to have a like meaning with an alleged Irish word, coined and spelled by Vallancy _aosfhear_; but it has also an identical meaning with the Indian _eswara_, and the Egyptian _osiris_, and the Islandic _aesae_, which makes _aesar_ in the plural; and it would be just as reasonable to infer, that therefore the Etruscans spoke the Hindostanee, or the Coptic, or the Islandic language, as that they spoke Irish. All the nations of Christendom give God the name Christ; but he would be justly deemed insane who would argue, that therefore English is the proper medium of interpretation for a Russian ukase. Common sense, without any further learning, might have told Sir William Betham, that till he stood on some surer ground than the coincidence of a single word, even supposing that word a genuine one, it would be the excess of folly to venture on such an application of a modern language; and further learning (if he had possessed it) would have confirmed the suggestion of common sense. With a moderate amount of learning, he would have known that, besides the names of known deities--_Kupra_, _Nyrtia_, _Mantus_, _Aukelos_, _Camillus_, corresponding to the heathen Juno, Fortuna, Pluto, Aurora, Mercury--there are also several other Etruscan words of which we know the meanings, such as _faland_, the heavens; _andras_, the north wind; _lucumo_, a king; _drouna_, a kingdom or principality; _damnos_, a horse; _capra_, a goat; _agalletor_, a youth; _verse_, fire; _ites_, the ides of a month; _hister_, a stage-player; _subulo_, a trumpeter; _italos_, a bull; _arimoi_, monkeys, _antar_, an eagle; _arakos_, a lark; _gnis_, a crane; _capys_, a falcon; _gapos_, a chariot; _burros_, a bowl; _atarin_, a wine-cruet; _nanos_, a wanderer; _mantissa_, an increase or addition; _turseis_, a space enclosed with walls; and several others, not one of which bears the remotest resemblance to any Irish or Celtic word of equivalent meaning. Further learning, also, would have taught him the hopelessness of reconciling the Etruscan with any of the languages of Europe known as spoken languages immediately before the Christian era--Dionysius of Halicarnassus having expressly declared, that neither in language nor in customs were the Etruscans of his time similar to any other known nation; and Dionysius was well acquainted with both Celts and Phoenicians.