text:  That the Etruscans spoke Irish he concludes just as Goropius concluded that the Phrygians spoke Dutch from the coincidence of a single word having as he alleges the same sound and meaning in each; and as a single passage from Herodotus was the sole foundation for the vast inverted pyramid of nonsense piled up by Goropius on that individual point (and kept from toppling over only by sheer force of impudence ) so the single well-known passage from Suetonius ascertaining the Etruscan _Aesar_ to be a designation of the Deity (_Aesar_ being also as it is said Irish for the same ) gives the only ground on which Betham rests his extravagant assertion that the Eugubian inscriptions contain an account of the discovery of Ireland by the Etruscan navigators and with a pretended version of which through the medium of Irish as he alleges he has filled the whole first volume of his book