[ 437 i 
(feeTAB. XVII. n.2,3.), v/e may infer, that the v/ord 
denoting son, amongft the Samnites, v/as abforbed in 
the genitive cafe of the father’s name, after the man- 
ner of the Greeks, as I (15) formerly fuppofed j and 
that, in this particular, they were even fometimes 
(16) imitated by the Romans (fee Tab. XVIII. n. 3.) 
With regard to the Safinian family, I fhall beg 
leave to obferve, that it was a family of pretty con- 
fiderable note. We are told by(i7)Sig. Olivieri, 
that C. Safinius had a hand in the feditions of L. Apu- 
leius, which fo much difturbed the repofe of the 
republic, about the middle of the feventh century of 
Rome. The names of feveral members of this 
family occur in fome of the Latin, or Roman, in- 
fcriptions, publifhed by (18) Gruter and (i9)Mura» 
tori, to omit what has been faid on the fame fubjedt 
by other writers. Sig. Olivieri (20) fuppofes the 
Safinian family might not improbably have been of 
a Samnite origin, and the interpretation of th6 
word SAFINIM given here feems to add no fmall 
weight to fuch a fuppofition. Nay, we learn from 
(21) fome of the above mentioned infcriptions, that 
(i^) Philofoph. TranfaSl. ubi fup. & not. (21). 
(16) Sag. di DlJJerta%, Accademlch. di Carton, ubi fup. 
(17) Sag. di Dijfertaz. Accad. di Carton. Tom. IV. p. 144. 
(18) Jan. Gruter. Carp. Infcript. ex Recenf. et cum Not. yo- 
‘annis Georgii Grcevii, cccLXXXVi. 4 - cmliii. mlxxv. 2. & 
MXCII. 7. 
(ig) Lud. Ant. Murator. ATijz;. Thefaur. Veter. Infcript. &cci 
CCCIX. 3. MDXCIX. 6. MDCCXLIX. 2 . & DCCCXLIX. 2 . Vid. 
etiam Ind. TJniverf. Clafl*. XVII. Mediolani, 1742* 
(20) Sag. di Dijfertaz. Accademich. di Carton. Tom. IV* 
p. 146. 
(21) Jan. Gruter. ubi fup. cmliii. 5. Ludi Ant# Murator. 
MDCCXLIX, 2. & Ind, Univerf. Claff. XVII. 
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