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preferved, This piece, about the fize of a double 
denarius, prefents to our view a type on the reverfe 
fomewhat different from that of Lord Pembroke’s 
(31) fimilar medal. The Samnite-Etrufcan N and 
R, on my coin, are of a pretty unufual form. With 
regard to the word .MnnRn> PAAPII, or PA- 
PI VS, we find a Samnite proper name, with the fame 
termination in the nominative cafe, on one of the 
mod; valuable Samnite-Etrufcan remains of antiquity, 
dug out of the ruins of Herculaneum, and mod: 
learnedly explained by Sig. (32) Pafferi. That word 
and the prenomen prefixed to it occur in the follow- 
ing Samnite-Etrufcan characters, .11 3 EUI Z.J, L. 
SLABIVS, not L. SLABIIS (33), as that acute and 
ingenious author feems once to have imagined. 
That fome Etrufcan proper names, of cities at lead, 
in nature fingulars, and expreffed in the nominative 
cafe, always retained the termination II, from the 
words VEII, TARQVINII, VOLSINII, &c. mud 
be allowed abundantly clear. 
Many more curious particulars, relative to antient 
Etrufcan literature, are naturally deducible from the 
Samnite-Etrufcan inferiptions I have undertaken to 
confider, in this and a former paper ; all of which I 
mud at prefent fuperfede, as having time only to 
affure you that I am, 
Good Sir, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon. 
July 21, 1760. 
Your mod obliged, 
and mod obedient fervant, 
J. Swinton. 
(31) Nurnifm. Antiq. &c. a Tho. Pembr. & Mont. Gomer. 
Com. Collett. P. 2. T. 88. num. 3. 
(32) Symbol. Litterar. ubi fup. p. 20 7 — 216. 
(33) Jo. Bapt. Pafler. Pifaurenf. Junonal. Sacr. Mcttf. Hercu- 
lanenf. Illujlrat. Vid. Symbol. Litterar. ubi fup. p. 209. 
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