7. 1829.
[4431,4] Digamma.
The history
of Rome by B. G.
Niebuhr, translated by Julius Charles Hare, M. A. and Connop Thirlwall, M. A. fellows of Trinity
college, Cambridge. the first
volume. Cambridge, 1828.
{+sezione intitolata: Ancient
Italy;} p. 17. not. 33. Q137659935Micali
4432 with great plausibility explains the Oscan
Viteliu on the Samnite denary of the same
age (the age of the Marsic war) to be the Sabellian form of Italia. Τ. I. p. 52. The analogy of Latium, Samnium, gives Italium, or
with the digamma Vitalium, Vitellium; and Vitellio is like Samnio. Vitalia is mentioned by Servius
among the various names of the country: on Aen. VIII.
328. - p. 18. In the Tyrrhenian or the ancient Greek
(not. 36. In the former, according to Apollodorus
Bibl. II. 5. 10.; in the
latter, according to Timaeus
quoted by Gellius XI. 1. Hellanicus of Lesbos cited by Dionysius, I. 35, does not
determine the language. Tyrrhenian however here does not mean Etruscan,
but Pelasgic, as in the Tyrrhenian glosses in Hesychius.) italos
or itulos meant an ox. The mythologers
connected this with the story of Hercules driving the Geryon's herd (not. 37. Hellanicus and Apollodorus in the passages just referred to) through the
country: Timaeus, in whose
days such things were no longer thought satisfactory, saw an allusion to
the abundance of cattle in Italy. (not. 38. Gellius XI. 1.
Piso, in Varro
de re r. II. 1, borrowed the
explanation from the Greeks.) .... In the Oscan name of the country
(dell'antica Italia), which, as
we have seen, was Vitellium,
there is an evident reference to Vitellius, the son of Faunus and of Vitellia, a goddess worshipt in many parts of Italy. (not. 39. Suetonius
Vitell. I.) - Altrove
l'autore nota che Vitulus, cognome di una famiglia
romana, non è che Italus; preso, come tanti altri, dal
paese originario della famiglia. (7. 1829.).
