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The Samnites,the Marfi,thePicentes, and the Lucanians 
(27) Teem to have been the four principal nations that 
firft entered into an alliance againft Rome, the memory 
of which has perhaps been perpetuated by this coin, a 
little before the commencement of the Social war. 
That the firft letter of the monogram, in the infcrip- 
tion behind the galeated head on my Samnite denarius, 
is E, to demonftration appears, from the laft Etrufcan 
element of the word ^COTVT? TVTERE, as it oc- 
curs on a valuable medal publifhed by (28) Mr. Haver- 
camp; efpecially, as this is fupported by a fimilar in- 
fcription, handed down to us by one of Lord ( 29) Pem- 
broke’s Etrufcan coins. The laft letter of the aforefaid 
monogram is evidently the Samnite- Etrufcan accented 
I, as has been already remarked. This character and the 
other connected with it formed the diphthong 13 , or 
El, which the moft antient (30) nations of Italy had in 
common with the Greeks. A coalition of the two ele- 
ments here is moft evident and confpicuous. The ac- 
cented I in power feems to have approached pretty near 
the Latin E, as we learn from the name VETVRIVS 5 
the fecond letter of which apparently anfwers to the firft 
Samnite-Etrufcan accented I of the word VR 3 TEL 
FITEEIV, on my coin. It may likewife be clearly 
evinced, from the local proper name /^VMInIKT, 
TEANVR, or TEANOR, exhibited by a ftlver me- 
dal of Teanum, in my pofteflion, extremely well 
(27) Aut. Liv. Epit. Lib. lxxii, Ixxiii. Appian makes the 
Marfi, the Peligni, the Veftini, and the Marrucini to have firft 
taken up arms againft the Romans, in the Italian war. Appian. 
Alexandrin. De Bell. Civil. Lib. i. p. 634. (374) Amft. 1670. 
(28) Andr. Morel, ubi flip. Tab. Num. Hifpan. n. 18. 
(29) Nurriifm. Antiq. &c. a Thom. Pembr, & Mont. Gomer. 
Com. ColleCl . P. 3. T. 116. num. 1. 
(30) Jo. Bapt. Pafler. Pifaurenf, ubi fup. Vid. Symbol. Lit - 
terar, ubi fup. p. 207* 
preferved. 
