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•poNits, the name exhibited by the printed copies 
of the laft mentioned author, feerns to carry along 
with it the air of a depravation ; flnce no Greek or 
Latin fource, from v/hence we can, with fufllcient 
propriety, fuppofe it to flow, prefen ts itfelf to our 
view. 
From the preceding obfervations, which, I flatter 
myfelf, will be deemed by no means remote from 
truth, it will follow, that the medal before me is to 
be attributed to the Veturian and Luponian families. 
But inftances of this kind (i 5) pretty frequently occur. 
The names of Tiberius Veturius and C. Papius Mu- 
tilus are (16) exhibited by another Samnite-Etrufcan 
denarius, of the fame age with this, which I have 
formerly explained ; and feveral Roman confular 
coins ftruck about the time of the Social war, and 
the following age, adorned with the names of two 
illuflrious (17) perfons of different families, are to 
be met with in the cabinets of the great and the cu- 
rious at this very day. 
If what has been here advanced fhould meet with 
the approbation of the learned, they will not read 
might be adduced, are inconteftable proofs. In like manner 
lvpinivs and lvponivs might, by analogy, have been deemed 
antiently the fame name ; the fecond fyllable of the latter of 
which the Samnites and Etrufcans, for want of o, undoubtedly 
wrote Pv. Lud. Ant. Murat. Nov. Tbejaur. Vet. Infcript. 
Tom. III. p. mccc. n. 12. Mediolani, 1740. Joh. Nic. 
Func. De Adolefcent. Lat, Ling. Traft. p. 324. xVfarburgi Cat- 
torum, 1723. 
(15) Vid. Vaill. Patin. Morell. & Sig. Haverc. in Num « 
Fam. Rom. 
( 16) Philofoph. Fran/aft. Vol. LII. Par. I, p. 2i — 39. 
(17) Philofoph . FranJ'aft. ubi fup. p. 3 1 . 
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