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M. or i\iARCVs, was a prenomen ufed by certain 
members of this family, which may be confidered 
as an additional proof of the truth of what has been 
here advanced. It is true, we meet with no com- 
mander of this name in the hiftory of the Social war. 
But then it is as true, that we have very little relative 
to this war handed down to us by the Roman hifto- 
rians. As the war of the Allies was exceeding 
bloody, and continued near four years j we may rea- 
fonably prefume many of the Italian generals and 
principal officers to have been cut off in the courfe 
of it, and to have been fucceeded by others, feveral 
of whofe nam.es have not been mentioned by thofe 
writers who have only juff touched upon that war. 
Had the hiftories of the Social war written by Cor- 
nelius Sifenna, L. Lucceius, and others, whofe works, 
excepting a very few fmall fragments, are now en- 
tirely loff, efcaped the ravages of time, we might per- 
haps have met there at leaft with the name of this 
general, if not feme account of his exploits in that 
war. But as the matter now hands, we muff be folely 
obliged to the very valuable denarius 1 have been con- 
fidering, which has preferved the name of a family 
not hitherto obferved on antient coins, for the prefer- 
vation of his memory, through fuch a feries of ages 
as has elapfed between the commencement of the 
Social war and the prefent time. 
I muff not forget to remark, that the fmall (22) 
point between the two laft letters of the word 
sAFiNiM, on the coin, feems to divide the five pre- 
ceding elements from the laft letter m, and to an- 
(22) Sag. dl D\fJ'erta%. Accadmich. di Carton, Tom. IV 
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