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one not totally unacquainted with the medallic fciencc, 
and not an intire ftranger to the firft principles of 
oriental literature. For rUHO DjpO, ex popvlo 
MENENIO, A POPVLO MENEN10, POPVLO MENENIO, 
(fcil. cvsvs, vet percvssvs, nvmmvs) is certainly 
altogether as proper as P13no oyn, ipse popvlvs 
MENENIVS, (Icil. CVDIT, Vel PERCV.SSIT, NVMMVM) 
if not really much more fo. That s. c. i. e. sena- 
TVS CONSVLTO, D. D. i. e. DECRETO DECVRIONVM, 
EX D. D. i. e. EX DECRETO DECVRIONVM, &C. llOt 
feldom occur on antient coins, is a point too well 
known, (38) even to fmatterers in antiquity, to be 
difputed amongfl: the learned. 
III. 
As my Latin diflertation upon the fecond Citiean 
infcription, of which I have already given a Latin 
tranflation, inferted in the Marmora (39) Oxoni- 
£nsia, is almoft ready for the prefs; I might eafily 
excufe myfelf, at prefent, from taking any notice 
of M. l’Abbe’s pretended explication of that infer ip-, 
tion. But as this, in conjunction with his attempt 
to interpret the fourth, is undoubtedly by far the 
moft exceptionable (40) part of his whole per- 
formance, fince he feems totally to have miftaken 
the fenfe of both inferiptions j I (hall beg leave to 
(38) Lud. Debiel, e Soc. Jef. in Utilit. Rei Nutnar . Veter. 
p. 99, 100, 1 1 2, &c. Viennae Auftri®, 1733. 
(39) Marmor. Oxen. Par. Secund. Tab. III. p. 7. Oxonii, 
* 7 6 3 - 
(40) Memoir, dt Litter, ubi lup. p. 421, 422, 423. 
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