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From what has been faid it appears highly pro- 
bable, that m. or ni. lvponivs flood originally in 
the text of Appian, or rather in that of Cornelius. 
Sifenna (i i ), who gave a very minute and particular 
defcription of the Social war, or of fome other Latin 
author followed by the Greek hiftorian. That writer 
therefore feems to be emended, in the indance be- 
fore us, by my coin ; which will perhaps be allowed 
to have brought to light the true name of an Italian 
general, who commanded a body of the confederated 
rebels in the Social war, that had been loft for many 
ages. And this is rendered flill more probable by 
the Samnite-Etrufcan accent, which makes the firft 
>y in that name equivalent to the Greek diphthong 
OT, or ov. For that diphthong and l form the firft 
fyllable of lvpvs, or AOTJTIOS, from whence the 
word lvponivs feems apparently to have been de- 
rived, as we learn from the text of (12) Appian. 
Nor can it be denied, that (13) lvpivs and lvpo- 
nivs are, by analogy, as naturally deducible from the 
Roman or Italian cognomen lvpvs as aprivs and 
apron 1 vs (14) are from app:r : whereas lam* 
(11) Corn. Sifen. Hiji. Lib. IV. apud Non. Marcel, in voc- 
Convenjre, cap. iv.col. 633. I. 48, 49, 50. Geneva, 1622. 
(12) rfppian. Alexandria. De Bel. Civil. Lib. I. p. 374* 
Ainftelodami, 1670. 
(13) Lud. Ant. Murator. Nov. Thefaur, Infcript. 
p. 1264. Vid. etiam Ind. Univerf. Clnjf. 17 p. 2302. Me- 
diolani, 1742. 
(14) The family name aprinivs, which fometimes occurs,, 
feem . to be altogether the fame with apronivs ; the pofition 
of 1 in the place of o, and o in the place of 1, having not 
been uncommon among!! the antients. Of this qvicvm for 
qvocvM, die crastini for die crastino, agnotvs for 
agnitvs, olli for ILLI, lo omit many other inftanccs that 
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