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medals are fo perfedlly (i 3) fimilar, that were not 
the charaders with which they are adorned different, 
and the caps or helmets worn by two Caftors viable 
only on one of them, they might abfolutely be con- 
fidered as duplicates of the fame coin (lee 1'ab. 
XVI. n. 2, 3.). Now the Roman denarius has 
preferved the legend serveilim on the reverfe, 
and the Samnite one 1 propofe to elucidate here the 
infcriptioii safiniai like wife on the reverfe, in 
Samnite, or Samnite-Etrufcan, letters. As there- 
fore SERVEILIM is apparently equivalent to ser- 
vEiLi M., sERVEiLivs MARCi, or, in the Ro- 
man llyle, SERVEILIVS MARCI FiLivs ; the legend 
SAFiNiM may be confidered as equivalent to safini 
M., or safinivs marci, which, in the Samnite 
mode of expreffion (14), anfwers to the Latin, or 
Roman, safini m. f. that is safinivs marci fi- 
Livs. Wherefore it undoubtedly pointed at one of 
the Italian heroes, famous for hjs condu6land bravery 
in the war carried on, towards the decline of the fe- 
v^enth century of Rome, by the confederated Italian 
Rates, againft the Romans. 
That my interpretation of the legend on the reverfe 
of the Roman denarius is agreeable to truth, we learn 
from the legend on the reverfe of a fimilar denarius of 
the Servilian family (fee Tab. XVIII, n. 4.), now in 
my fmall colledlion, which is formed of the letters 
P. SERVII.IM F., that is P. SERVILIVS marci FILIVS. 
Whence, in conjunction with the Samnite denarius 
(13) Sag. dl DlJJeriaz. Accademich, dl Carton, Tom. IV. 
Diflert. 4. p. 133, 134. In Roma, 1743. 
(14) Philofoph. Tranfaif, Vol* LII. P. i. p. 35. 
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