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principal nations concerned at that time in the reVok 
from the Romans, if they did not actually take 
the lead in that revolt. They were commanded by 
M. Lamponius and Tiberius Cleptius, two able ge- 
nerals ; the former of which defeated a body of 
Roman troops, under the command of Licinius 
CrafTus, formed the fiege of Grurnentum, in Lucania, 
and not a (19) little diftinguifhed himfelf, either in 
the firft or fecond campaign of the Social war. The 
Etrufcan, or rather Samnite-Etrufcan, characters on 
this Lucanian piece are therefore a very good proof 
of the truth of what is here advanced. For the prin- 
cipal confederated Italian Rates, during the courfe 
of that war, ufed the Etrufcan characters, the antient 
letters of Italy, and that on their coins, out of 
defpite to the (20) Romans. This has been already 
oblerved by the very ingenious Sig. Olivieri, in the 
piece here referred to 5 nor will it, I would perfwade 
myfelf, be contefted in any part of the learned 
world. 
The celebrated Sig. Pa fieri fuppofes l to have (21) 
entered into the compofition of the Etrufcan name 
of Padtum, by which he in a great meafure, if not 
intirely, overturns his own hypothefis, relative to 
the place where the coin before me firft appeared. 
In order to account for this Rrange fuppofition, he 
afierts the antients frequently to have placed the let- 
ter l after s; and (22) produces the words stlatvm, 
(19) Appian. Alexandria ubi fup* 
(20) Saggi di DiJJertazioni Accademiche pubblicamcnte lette nella 
Nobile Accademia Etrufca dell ’ anticbijfuna Cittd di Cortona. T om. 
ll. p. 53. In Roma, 1738. 
(21) jo. Bapt. Pajler, ubi Tup. p. 19, 20, 21 . 
(22) Id. ibid. p. 20, 21. 
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