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and the aforefald accented I j as may be very fairly 
inferred from a fimilar infcription (9) on other de- 
narii, that have preferved the name of our Tiberius 
Veturius. The laft element V is likewife an accented 
letter, having had originally a point or fmall ftroke, 
equidiftant from each of its fides, in the vacant fpace 
between them ; which has been flattened, and reduced 
to a kind of minute ftrait line, almoft contiguous to 
one of them, by the injuries of time. This accent un- 
doubtedly pointed out the ( 1 o) diphthong OV, in like 
manner as did a fmall curve line, joined to a fide of V, 
though in another pofition, on fome confular (11) 
coins of the Furian and Pomponian families. That 
this mark or accent denoted the V to which it ad- 
hered to be equivalent to OV, on thofe coins, is 
univerfally allowed ; other confular denarii exhibiting 
the word FOVRIVS for FVRIVS, and the cogno- 
(9) Andr. Morel. Thefaur. Numifm. Fam. Incert. Tab. I. 
num. 8, 9. 
(10) Idem ibid. Had the name of the general of the MarfI 
been Vettius, the laft letter here would have been equivalent to the 
Greek Omicron , or the fimple Latin V. This is inconteftably clear 
from the Greek word Bi7?/or, or Ovi^/or, anfwering to the Roman 
Vettius ; which occurs both in Plutarch and Dio. But as the laft 
element of the infcription I am confidering was indubitably pro- 
nounced OV, or OT ; the name itfelf at length muft have been 
Veturius, or B;t » e/o<r, as we find it antiently written by fome go®d 
authors. This fingle obfervation, exclufive of others, that might 
be offered, to demonftration evinces the point formerly deduced 
from the appearance of the Etrufcan a on another Samnite-Etrufcan 
coin. The infcription therefore exhibited by that medal and the 
legend before me mutually ftrengthen and fupport each other. 
Plut. in Grach. Dio, Lib. xxxvii. p. 48. B. & Lib. xxxviii. 
p. 63. E. Edit. Wechel. Hanoviae, 1606. Plut. in Num. Dionyf, 
Halicarnaf. Antiquit. Roman. Lib. ix. 
(n) Vaill. Patin. & Andr. Morel, in Famil. Roman, Fur. (3 
Pompon, Num. 
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