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As neither the Samnites nor the Etrufcans had in 
their alphabet o, they ufed the fimple unaccented 
v for that element. This is evident from the cele- 
brated tables of Gubbio, from the coins of Papius 
Mutilus, and from other Etrufcan and Samnite 
remains of antiquity. This we alfo learn from 
(5) Fedus, (6) Quintilian, and other antient writers 
of good repute. I fhaii therefore not fcruple to 
conlider the lad letter of the infer iption I am now 
upon, fuppofing it v, as I verily believe it was, as 
equivalent to the Latin or Roman o, and confe- 
quently fhall read the four elements at fii ft impreffed 
upon the coin lvpo. This I would alfo look upon as 
part of the name lvponivs, though I quedion whe- 
ther or no that name has been ever yet obferved on 
any other monument. Be that, however, as it will, 
the truth of my notion, from what immediately fol- 
lows, will, I fatter myfelf, more clearly appear. 
The Lucanian forces added under the orders of 
M. Lamponius and Tiberius Cleptius, two generals 
of very confiderable note, in the Social war. The 
former of thefe, according to (7) Appian, didin- 
guifhed himfelf by the defeat of a body of Roman 
troops, under the command of Licinius Craflus, and 
the liege of Grumentum, in Lucania, either in the 
firft or fecond campaign of that war. As there- 
fore, by fuch a blow, he mud have rendered no 
fmall fervice to the common caufe ; ’tis natural to 
fuppofe, that the allies did him the honour of im- 
prefling his name on fome of their coins. And that 
(5) S. Pomp. Fefh p. 339. Lutetiae Parifiorum, 1 68 1 . 
(b) M. Fab. Quintilian. Lib. I. c. 4. Mar. Vcr. Flac. apud 
Felt, ubi flip. 
(7) Appian. Alexandria De Bel. Civil, p. 375. 
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