A specimen of the language appears written round the edge of a picture on a patera, the genuineness of which is established by the fact that the words were written before the glaze was put on: ""foied vino pipafo, cra carefo"", in Latin "hodie vinum bibam, cras carebo" 'today I will drink wine; tomorrow I will not have any.' That sample indicates that Faliscan was less conservative in some respects than Latin, with the wearing down of final case endings and the obscuring of the etymology of "foied" "today", which is more obvious in Latin "hodie" (from "hoc die").