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The Daughters of Kekrops 259

and adds: 'Nach gewohnlicher Amiahme soli die Benennung der "Cigarre" (span. ptg.
cigarro, itoL sigarro, frz. cigare m.) auf span, cigarra zuriickgehen, wegen einer gewissen
Ahnlichkeit des Tabakrollchens mit der Cicade, sei es in Gestalt oder in Farbe.' Cp.
E. Weekley An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English London 1921 p. 303). But these
imitative formations are apt also to have an *«-sound, as in the modern Greek Tohr^iKa.%,
Wyrfuras, Tcrlvr^ipas (Prellwitz Etym. IVbrterb. d. Gr. Spr? p. 458), the Macedonian-
Roumanian chincala (Korting loc. cit.), and the Latin verb fritinnire (Suet. frag, p. 252, 2
Reifferscheid cicadarum fritinnire (frintinnire cod. V'. fretinnire alii codd.), F. Buecheler—
A Riese Anthologia Latina- Lipsiae 1906 i. 2. 248 no. 762. 35 et cuculi cuculant et rauca
Wcada fritinit), late Latin frintinnire (Ducange Gloss, med. et inf. Lat. s.w. 'baulare,'
frintinnire').

The same variation meets us in the case of the hero, whose name Titfwvos, Tithonus
aPpears in Etruscan as TinBun or Tindn (C. Pauli in Roscher Lex. Myth. v. 971 f.,
J- Schmidt ib. v. 1021, 1029). A mirror from Chiusi (?), published by E. Gerhard in the
drch. Zeit. 1852 x Anz. p. 160, ib. 1857 xv. Anz. p. 71*, id. Etr. Spiegel iv. 22 f. pi. 290
( = my fig. 171), E. Hiibner in the Bull. d. Inst. 1857 p. 165, H. Brunn ii. 1859 p. 109,
A* Fabretti Corpus inscriptionum Italicarum Aug. Taurinorum 1867 p. ccxviii no. 2513 bis,
shows TinBun and Qesau as a pair oflovers flanked by Memrun (Memnon) on the right
and La[s]a (W. Deecke in Roscher Lex. Myth, ii. 1903) on the left. Another, owned and
Published by Gerhard Etr. Spiegel iii. 217 f. pi. 232 ( = my fig. 172), Fabretti op. cit.
P- ccxvii no. 2506, has a similar scene in which Tindn (S. Bugge in W. Deecke Etruskische
p°rschungen und Sludien Stuttgart 1883 iv. 34 notes that Deecke read \tinSn\, and

■ Furtwangler UinOu (adding ' der erste Strich kann allerdings auch zu der Randeinfas-
SUng der Inschrift gehort haben')) is embraced by Evan (Gerhard read Efan ( — Evan),
^paring Efas ( = Evas) as the name of Memnon in Etr. Spiegel iii. 218 f. pi. 235, 1.

' Friederichs Kleinere Kunst und Industrie im Alterthum Diisseldorf 1871 p. 60 no. 70,

■ Helbig in the Bull. d. Inst. 1878 p. 84 f., and S. Bugge loc. cit. p. 35 fl". accept Evan,
which goddess see W. Deecke in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1440, E. Samter in Pauly—

issowa Real-Enc. vi. 838 f. W. P. Corssen Ueber die Sprache der Etrusker Leipzig 1874
rei6°' 820 and W" Deecke in K- °- Mu"er Die Etrusker Stuttgart 1877 i2. 481 propose
Qt "' but there is no trace of an initial 8) with Tvainii (Gerhard read Tfami (= Tvami)
A'v am*' Eabretti Tiami; Bugge loc. cit. p. 34 f. hazards tiasii for *$8iJjffios, i.e.

c ljUes) standing on the right and QeBis seated on the left,
p "ere is some reason to think that the Etruscan TinBun is still remembered by the
■r ants °f north Italy. C. G. Leland Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition
thu l8^2 P' 122 states that the Romagnoli regard Tituno or Tit'uno as 'the spirit of
■nfo Cr'. and P- 2I5 asserts that, when it hails, people invoke Tituno or Tignia. If his
'ed tmat'on be reliable (supra ii. 421 n. o), it is possible to suppose that the -in- of TinBun
gr0u° confiision with the Etruscan Tinia. Be that as it may, Tinia, like TinBun, is
/)>,!'3ed vv'tn ®esan and QeBis on a mirror now in the Vatican (E. Braun in the Bull. d.
pi ,nK ,3' PP- 73—80, Mus. Etr. Gregor. i pi. 31, 1, Gerhard Etr. Spiegel iv. 5. 44

J'' 396 ( = my fig." 173), Fabretti op. cit. p. ccxv no. 2477). which presumably represents
*Us supplicated by Heos and Thetis (supra ii. 734. 753 3 <3»- Leland op. at.
Z 75-78 claims that Qesan too has survived as Tesana, 'the Spirit of the Dawn, and

Prorn" * V°V^ P°em Whi°h " * * * SleePi"e

'ses to help him when he is weary.

v AIore ingenious, but also more speculative, are the suggestions of S. Bugge Das

^"lttltnis der Etrusker zu den Mogermanen und der vorgriechischen Bevolkerung

'"""Aw* und Grieclunlands ed. A. Torp Strassburg I9o9 p. ,,9 ff. :-Ti««f6i was

Pie-Greek Anatolian name, borne e.g. by a brother of Priam (//. 20. 237)- A cuneiform

in I f°und at Eyuk in Kappadokia mentions a town Tintunia, perhaps to be located

<fcfA nia rather than in Asia Minor (E- Chantre Recherches archiologiques dans I ASH

\Vith?a/e- M"sion en Cappadoce j893-iS94 Paris 1898 p. 45 ff. no. 1, ioTi-in-iu-u-m-ia).

the; Us aerees the form tinBun, which the Etruscans may have brought with them lrom

early home in Asia Minor. Tintunia (for 'Tinthonia) is to tinBun as A«\Xw«a

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