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by the medal I am conlidering, or at lead; by that of 
Tiberius Veturius above-mentioned, to have repre- 
fented Fortitude or Valour j which was edeemed as 
a deity, by the Romans. But Sig. Annibale degli 
Abati Olivieri believes a fimilar galeated head (23), 
on one of the medals of C. Papius Mutilus, to have 
pointed out to us Mars, the god of war. Which if 
we admit, that preferved by our coin will probably 
be allowed to have reprefented the fame deity. Nor 
can I think this at all remote from truth, as Mars 
was held in the highed veneration amongd the an- 
tient inhabitants of Italy, and particularly the (24) 
Samnites, to whom the piece before me ought indu- 
bitably to be referred. Be this as it will, the galeated 
heads dill vifible on my Samnite-Etrufcan denarius, 
in the fined: confervation, and the Roman one of the 
Veturian family, here defcribed, feem in all points 
to have agreed, notwithdanding the diverfity of cha- 
racters on thofe coins, as has been already obferved. 
The four armed foldiers touching with their fwords, 
or dicks, a fow-pig, held by an herald, with his left 
knee upon the ground, on the reverfe, undoubtedly 
point out to us an alliance, or confederacy, formed 
between four powerful Italian dates. The cere- 
mony reprefented by this type was more antrent, 
(2f) according to Livy, than the reign of Hodilius 
Tullus, the third king of Rome. We find it de- 
fcribed by (26) Virgil, who agrees with Livy in this 
particular, in the following lines : 
Armatiy Jovis ante araSy patera fque- tenentes, 
Stabant j et ccefd feriebant faedera pored. 
(23) Annib. degli Abat. Olivier, ubi fup. Tom. II. p. 64, 65.. 
(24) Annib. degli Abat. Olivier, ubi fup. Tom. II. p. 64, 65. 
(25) T. Liv. Lib. i. 
(26) Virg. JEn. Lib. viii. v. 640, 641. 
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