Dum�zil attributes a peculiar semantic value to the syllabic group'TOITESIAI': a moral instrument that is nothing else than a form of the power the males of a family group ( father, tutors ) exercised on a girl, i . e . a variant or alteration of the word " tutelae ", similar to " tu ( i ) tela ".
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Thus changing the position of the index by rotating the movable disk, one will be able to express the phonetic and semantic value of each capital letter by means of twenty-four different alphabetic characters, whereas each small letter can correspond to any capital letter or to any of the four numbers in the alphabet of the stationary disk . " " Now I come to the convenient use of the numbers, which is admirable ."
