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diflertatlon, printed at Oxford, in 1746. The piece 
at prefent engaging my attention is an additional, or 
rather an apodidtical, proof of the truth of what was 
there advanced. It demonftrates the Etrufean letters 
to have been ufed at Rome, in very early times j and 
confequently evinces, in the ftrongeft manner^ the 
principal point infilled upon in that dillertation. 
The time when the medal I have been confider- 
ing firft appeared, for want of proper chronological 
charadters, and fufiicient light from hiftory, cannot, 
with any precifion,be afeertained. But, from a per- 
ufalof the Imall performance (19) above-mentioned, 
and what has been offered here, we fhall, I believe, 
be induced to conclude, that it is at lead coeval with 
the regifuge, which happened in the year of Rome 
245 ; or rather, as I fhould apprehend, that it may be 
a confiderable number of years anterior to that event. 
The two brafs coins above deferibed being ex*^ 
tremely curious, efpecially the fecond of them, an 
Etrufean coin of Rome having never been heard of 
before; and many curious points being deducible 
more recent than the regifuge. Nay, in the dilTertation here 
referred to, they have been demonftrateJ inferior, in point of an- 
tiquity, to the Dailian infeription ; and confequently Father 
Gori muft be egregioudy mittaken, when he makes aj.l the in- 
feriptions on thofe cables fome generations older than the*Trojan 
war. See the Unlvcrfal Hi/iory^ Vol. XVI. p. 48. Lond. 1748. 
It may not be improper to remark here, that the Etrufeans 
had not the letter O in their alphabet, but conltantly made ufe 
of V for that element. Flence it came to pafs, that the Etrufean 
name of Rome was not Roma, but Ruma, as it appears on my 
very ancient coin. Philofoph, TranfaSi, Vol. LVIII. p. 256. 
De Pri/c. Romartor. Lit, Dijfertat. p. 6, 7, 8, g, lO. 
Oxdn. 1746. 
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