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can termination II fometimes anfwered to the Ro- 
man or Latin termination I VS, as we learn from 
(19) Sig. Pafleri. The conclufions to be drawn from 
hence are too obvious to be, at this time, either men- 
tioned or infided upon. 
Before I difmifs the prefent fubjeCt, I fhould beg 
leave farther to remark, that the fpace behind (ac- 
cording to the Etrufcan manner of writing) the lafl 
prenomen in the exergue, >, C, on a (20) coin pub- 
lished by Sig. Annibale degli Abati Olivieri, on one in 
the Rev. Dr. Barton’s cabinet, on another in my fmall 
collection, and on that I am considering, is capacious 
enough to contain an element, or at lead: a part of one, 
of the Samnite-Etrufcan alphabet} and yet that not the 
fainted: traces of any part of one are vifible in this fpace. 
Hence I am inclined to believe, that there never was 
a letter there. Which if we admit, it will feem to 
follow, that the Samnites and Etrufcans, at lead: in the 
feventh century of Rome, wrote only >.H I~!R RH . 
C. PAAPII.C, equivalent toC.PAPIVS.C, or CAIVS 
PAPI VS CAII, imitating the Greeks in this particular ; 
who ufed the father’s name in the genitive cafe only, 
fupprefling by a mod: common (21) ellipds the word 
TIOZ, on fuch occafions, as by an infinity of indances 
might be evinced, were it in any manner necefiary. 
Some authors (22) take the galeated head, exhibited 
(19) Jo. Bapt. Patter. Pifaur. Junonal. Sacr. Menf. Herculanenf. 
Illujirat. Vid. Symbol. Litterar. Vol. I. p. 207. Florentiae, 1748. 
(20) Antiib. degli Abati Olivieri, in Saggi di DiJJertaz. Acca- 
demic. &c. Tom. U. p. 49. & Tom. IV. p. 132. 
(21) Such ellipfes as this were antiently not uncommon amongft 
the Etrufcans, as we learn from I'everal infcriptions in the language 
and charadler of that nation ; for a farther account of which, recourfe 
may be had to the author here referred to. Jo. Bapt. PafTer. De 
Architetf. Etrufc. apud Ant. Franc. Gor. in Muf. Etrufc. Vol. III. 
p. 121, 122. & ahb. Florentiae, 1743. 
(22) Fulv. Urfin. Patin. Vaill. Sig. Haverc, &c. 
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