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tlie later Roman, or Latin, figure of that element. 
Now the old name of the efty, to wliich both the 
medals here mentioned may, as 1 apprehend, be af- 
ligned, was Corlinium, and the new one, given it by 
the confederated Italian dates, Italica, as we learn 
from (33) Strabo. As tlie Samnites therefore and 
old Romans are known to have ufed e fometimes for 
I, the element E, on the reverfe of my medal, may 
very well be fuppofed to have been the initial letter 
of the word Etalica, for Italica, the-new name men- 
tioned by Strabo (34). That the Samnites fometimes 
ufed E for I, we may infer from the word embratvr, 
for I M PER A TOR (35), Oil foiiie of Papius Mq- 
tilus’s Samnite coins, to omit others that might, with 
equal facility, be produced ; and that the antient 
Romans likewife did, not infrequently, the fame 
thing, from the authors (36) here referred to, is in- 
difputably clear. From whence we may, as I ap- 
prehend, fairly colledf, that M. Pellerin’s denarius 
was ftruck about the lime the league was formed, or • 
concluded, in commemoration of it ; and mine after 
the commencement of the war, which was the imme- 
diate confequence of that league. From what has been 
remarked, it is abundantly clear, that the pieces 
here mentioned not only receive a confiderable fliare of 
light from Strabo, but likewife evidently fupport, 
in the point before us, the authority of that cele- 
brated antient writer. Farther, as neither of thefc 
(33) Strab. Geograph, lib, V. p. 241, Lutetiae Parifior. 1620, 
(34) Strab. ubi fup. 
(35) Annib. degl. Abat. Olivieri, ubi fup. p. 61. 
(36) Cic. de Orat. lib. III. c. 12. Varro de Ling. Latin, lib. V. 
Quintilian, lib. V. c. 6. Aul. Cell. Attic* lib. X. c. 24* 
pieces 
