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agreeing with that preferved by a ( i ) medal of the 
Veturian family, behind which {land the Etrufcan 
letters VR-3T/0 1 2 , FITEEIV; none of which, ex- 
cept the laft, and that but little, has fuffered at all 
from the injuries of time. The type on the reverfe 
perfectly refembles that prefented to our view by the 
posterior part of the aforefaid Roman coin, attributed 
to Tiberius Veturius ; excepting that three human 
figures only occur on the latter of thefe pieces, and 
five on the former. The infcription in the exergue is 
formed of the Etrufcan characters XUS! Finn* >> 
C. PAAPII. C. The workmanship of the Samnite 
denarius is fo Similar to that of the Roman, that had 
not the legends, or infcriptions, pointed out a dif- 
ferent origin, thefe two medals might have been con- 
sidered as Struck at the fame place, on the fame oc- 
cafion, and by the very fame hand. 
The Etrufcan elements VR3TK3, FITEEIV, 
behind the galeated head, occupy the Space in which 
the Latin letters TI. VET. appear on the Roman 
denarius. This, in conjunction with what has been 
already advanced in favour of the fame notion, 
amounts almoft to a demonstration, that the name of 
the pretor of the Marfi, as he is ( 2 ) called by Claudius 
Quadrigarius, 
(1) Vid. Vaill. Patin. Sc Sig. Haverc. in Num. Fam. Vetur. 
(2) That the account of this general’s death in the paflage 
here referred to, as well as the ftory of the two flaves imme- 
diately preceding it, was extracted out of Claudius Quadriga- 
rius’s Annals , there feems little reafon to doubt. For that both 
thefe events happened in Italy about the fame time, cannot well 
be denied. M. Lamponius having defeated a body of Roman 
troops, under the command of Licinius Craflus, and put 800 of 
them to the fword, fhut the reft up in Grumentum, a city of Lu- 
cania, either the firft or Second campaign of the Social war, ac- 
cording 
