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the ftiort infcription I have been confidering 1*101- 
divs l vp vs, which I was once inclined to do; as 
a perfon of that name is not, I believe, to be met 
with in the whole circle of antiquity. Such a 
ledion as this would not have the fandion of any 
antient writer, of any antient coin, or of any other 
antient monument ; whereas my ledion, or rather 
my interpretation of what I conceive to be the true 
ledion, of this name, is fupported by the authority of 
Appian, which in it’s turn likewife receives no fmall 
acceflion of ftrength from this interpretation. 
I fhall only beg leave to add, that this interpreta- 
tion, if admitted by the learned, will alfo enable us 
to add the Luponian family, as a new one, to thofe 
colleded by Dr. Vaillant and M. Morell, whofe 
names, together with fome of the adions of their 
moft illuftrious members, have been handed down 
to us, through a long feries of ages, by antient 
coins ; and that I am, with great truth, 
S I R, 
Your moft obedient humble fervant, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon, 
OStob. 31, 1768. 
John S win ton. 
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