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the Greeks in general are faid to have (16) ufed it 
fometimes as a note of afpiration. On the Marmor 
Sanduicenje (17), according to Dr. Taylor, it ferved 
to exprefs the value of the obolus. That the Samnite- 
Etrufcan I, in the word MVTIL, Q f*TV I M> 011 one 
of C. Papius Mutilus’s coins, is accented, appears 
like wife irom the correfpondent word ManAos in 
Appian (18), where the I has apparently an acute 
accent over it. The fame mark of the denarius 
here prefents itfelf to our view that occurs on the fimi- 
lar Roman coin. This feems plainly to imply, that 
the notation of the Samnites agreed with that of the 
Romans, at the time of the Social war ; which, 
indeed, fufficiently appears from other inftances 
that might be produced. The name •HHFlRrb 
PAAPI 1 , is undoubtedly exprelTed in the nominative 
cafe, as the Roman names on the confular denarii 
are ; at leaf!:, every thing conlidered, I cannot help 
thinking this extremely probable. Nor will the point, 
at the end of the word, as I apprehend, difcounte- 
nance fuch a notion ; fince a point is fometimes vi- 
lible after a complete name, or furname, as well as 
after a part of fuch name, or furname, on feveral 
pieces of the Poftumian, Pomponian, &c. families. 
Of this the infcriptions A. POSTVMIVS. COS, 
ALBINVS. BRVTI. F, SVLLA. COS, on coins 
now in my polfeilion, are clear and inconteftable 
proofs. I therefore hope the learned will indulge me 
the liberty of fuppofing, that the name -HniRRn> 
PAAPII, is here complete ; efpecially, as the Etruf- 
(16) Serg. Max. Vi&orin. Quintilian. Lib. i. c. 4. Donat. Prif- 
cian. Cledon. &c. Vid. Grammaticos Putfchii, Cul. 1829, 1943, 
1742, 1287, 1889, &c. 
(17) Tayl. Comment, ad Marm. Sanduicenf. p. 48, 49, 50. 
Cantabrigise, 1743. 
(18) Appian. Alexandrin. De Bel. Civil . Lib. i. p. 381. 
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