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men MV’S A being only the Greek term MOTXA or 
M sacc in Latin characters. That the laft element of 
the Etrufcan infcription now in view had originally a 
point or fmall ftroke between its Tides, is abundantly 
evident from the correfpondent letter (12) on other 
medals of Tiberius Veturius, and particularly one in 
the poffeffion of the Reverend and Learned Dr. Bar- 
ton, Canon of Chrift-Church, Oxon. and a worthy 
member of this Society. Hence it fhould feem, that 
the cuftom of accenting the V was derived from the 
Samnites by the Romans j and that the accent annexed 
to the V, on the confular denarii, if not all the others 
that might have been in vogue amongft the Romans, 
was of Samnite, or rather Etrufcan, extraction. 
The Etrufcan legend in the exergue has one letter 
more than the fimilar infcription on the coin of C. 
Papius Mutilus, explained by Sig. (13) Annibale degli 
Abati Olivieri, in his fecond diftertation. That letter 
is the Samnite-Etrufcan accented I, being the laft ele- 
ment of the name .HnRFin, PAAPII. After what 
has been advanced on this head by the learned gentle- 
man juft mentioned, fcarce any thing is left for me to 
fay upon the fame fubjeCt. It may not be improper 
however to obferve, that this character is exhibited as 
reprefenting I by other (14) Samnite-Etrufcan re- 
mains of antiquity. Amongft the Dorians it feems 
to have anfwered to the (15) iEolic Di gamma , and 
(12) Andr. Morel, ubi fup. 
(13) Saggi di Difjertaz. Accadem. di Corton. Tom. IT. p. 49. 
in Roma, 1738. & Tom. IV. p. 132. In Roma, 1743. 
(14) Jo. Ba'pt. Pafler. Pifaurenf. funonal. Sacr. Menf. Illujlrat. 
Vid. ctiam Numifm. Antiqu. &c. Thom. Pembroch. et Mont. 
Gomeric. Com. P. 2. T. 88. num. 3. 
(15) Tayl. Comment, ad Marm. Sanduicenf. p. 43, 44, 45. 
Cantabrigiae, 1743. 
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