C 434 1 
Etrufcan antiquaries of the prefent age have not 
fcrupled toah'ert; but muft be taken, agreeably to the 
nature and genius of fuch coins, for the name of 
one of the Italian generals, who diftinguifhed himfelf 
ill the Social war. 
Jn fupport of tlie former opinion, it has been al- 
ledged, that the Etrufcan plural mafculine termina- 
tion, at the time of the Social war, was im, the very 
fame (6) with the Hebrew ; and that there is a mod: 
peculiar and neceffiry connedtion between the name 
SAFiNiM and the (7) fymbol on the reverfe, which 
accompanies it. But neither of thefe reafons, which 
have been offered, or at leafl fuppofed to be true, by 
two very great men (8), will be admitted by the learned. 
For that the Etrufcan plural mafculine termination 
was not the fame with the Hebrew, and confequently 
IM, in any of the cafes, but at leafh. fimilar to the 
Latin, if not the very fame with it, in the later 
ages, of which that of the Social war was one, is 
clearly evinced by the Etrufcan coins, with the 
words ( 9 ) icvFiNi, icvviNi, or evgvbini, ( 10 ) 
TiANVR, TEANVR, or TEANOR, upon them, to omit 
other inftances of the fame kind, that might, with 
equal facility, be produced. And that the fym- 
(6) Scip. MafF. ubi fup. M. Pcller. ubi fup. p. ir, 12 , 
(7) Peller. ubi (up. p. 5, 11, 12, 13, 14. 
(8) Scip. Maff. & Peller. ubi fup. 
(9) Anton. Francife. Gor. Muf. Etrufe. Vol. II. p. 422. 
Florentiae, 1737. 
( 10) Numtfm. Antiq. &c. Thom. Pcmbroch. et Mont. Go- 
meric. Com. P, 2. T. 88. n. 3. Pbilojoph. Tranfa£i. Vol. LII. 
Par. i. p. 37. 
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