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tk name;” becaufe it cannot perhaps be fo eafily proved, 
that he was our Veturius himfelf. For we are told by 
Claudius (31) Quadrigarius, in a fragment of his pre- 
ferved to 11s by Seneca, that one of this general’s Haves 
killed him, in order to prevent his falling into the 
hands of the Romans ; which feems to intimate, that 
he was dead before the cone lull on of the Social war, 
or at lead: before the Italians were put upon an equal 
foot with the Romans. However, his name might 
have been impreflfed upon this denarius, after his 
death. Whether or no the Veturian family itfelf de- 
duced its origin from the Mark, notwithdanding 
the dlence of Fulvius Urdnus, Dr. Vaillant, and Mr. 
Havercamp, on that head, I jfhall not take upon me 
to determine. 
Be this, however, as it will, from the family name 
0 VI 33 TJ 3 , FITEEIVR, or VITEEIVR, on the 
diver Etrufcan, or Samnite, medal, which at prefent 
is the principal objeCt of my attention, we may infer, 
that the Etrufcan orthography was very rough and 
unpolifhed, at lead; in fome of the Italian provinces, 
fo late as the 662d, or 66 jd, year of Rome; when 
that of the Romans, now called the Latin, was ar- 
rived at almod the lad; degree of perfection. It mud: 
neverthelefs be owned, that the later Latin, or Ro- 
man, letters (fo denominated in contradidinClion to 
the antient Latin characters, undoubtedly the fame 
with the Etrufcan, and ufed by the Romans them- 
felves in the earlied times) as well as the Etrufcan, were 
in vogue amongd feveral of the Italian dates, when 
the medals of C. Papius Mutilus and Veturius were 
druck. This mod evidently appears, from the diver 
(31) Claud. Quadrigar, apud Senec. ubi fup. 
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pieces, 
