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have been ftruck j the letter l by no means, as a 
radical, entering into the compolition of that name. 
Nor is the laft element of the word ( 11 ) mvtil, 
in any of the (12) mod accurate draughts of Sig, 
Olivieri’s Samnite-Etrufcan coins of Papius Mutilus, 
found to refemble v, as Sig. Pafferi has been pleafed 
to aflert. That element in all thofe draughts, as well 
as on the reverfes of two medals of the fame ge- 
neral in my fmall collection (fee Tab. XII. n. 2, 3.), 
perfectly well preferved, is moft apparenly l, in the 
true Etrufcan, or rather Samnite-Etrufcan, form. 
If this notion, which to me appears inconteflable, 
fhould be admitted by the learned, they wiil of 
courfe rejcCt the wild and arbitrary fuppofition of a 
modern Italian writer (13); who attributes the piece I 
am confdering to Pliftia, an obfcure inconfiderable 
town, mentioned (14) by Livy, and fcarce ever, as 
far as I can recolleCt, by any other antient author. 
For the expunCtion of the l, a letter here purely ima- 
( 1 1 ) Sig. Gori has remarked, that one of the Tides of the Etruf- 
can v is now and then fomewhat longer than the other. When this 
happens, part of the fhorter fide may be fuppofed to have been 
erafed by the injuries of time; which, indeed, from the in- 
dances he has adduced, feems highly probable. Be that, how- 
ever, as it will, even fuch an incomplete v as this is very di- 
flinguifhable from the Etrufcan 1 ; as the principal part, or 
longer line, of the latter either always is or ought to be a per- 
pendicular : whereas both the fides of the former are in an oblique 
pofition, though not always equally fo. Anton. Francifc. Gor. 
Muf. Etrufc. p. 414. Florentiae, 1737. 
(12) Saggi di DiJJeriaz. Accad . pub. Ictt. nella Nob. Accad. dell' 
anticbijf. Cit. di Carton. Tom. IV. p. 133. In Roma, 174.3. 
(13) Pafchal. Magnon. De Vcr. Pojidonus et Pczf-i Qrigini - 
bus , &c. 
(14) Liv. Lib. IX. c. xiii. xiv. 
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