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rvm. But to analyfe this extraordinary complex 
character a little more particularly, the firft part of 
it perfectly anfwers to the word roma, as reprefented 
by * a monogram on leveral coins of the (8) calpur- 
nian family; and the latter part of it is evidently 
formed of the letters noro, the lad: of which is 
apparently included in the head or top of the r. 
As the mafculine plural termination of the genitive 
cafe was ro, inftead of rvm, in the year of Rome 
(9) 494, when the infcription mentioning l. scipio’s 
conqueft of Corsica, and redudtion of aleria, 
feems to have firft appeared ; it is highly probable, 
that the piece in queftion was either coeval with, or 
a little anterior to, that year. The infcription is as 
follows : 
HONC. OINO. PLOIRVME. CONSENTIONT. R. 
DVONORO. OPTVMO. F VISE. VIRO. 
LVCIOM. SCIPIONE. FILIOS. BARBATI. 
CONSOL. CENSOR. AIDILIS. HIC. F VET. 
HIC. CEPIT. CORSICA. ALERIAQVE. VRBE. 
DEDET. TEMPESTATEBVS. AIDE. MERETO. 
* M. havercamp calls this curious charafler the monogram 
of Rome, meaning the word roma, which it very plainly ex- 
hibits ; and we may, with as much reafon, denominate the 
extraordinary ligature on the reverfe of my quinarius the mono- 
gram of the Romans, or the complex character that contains all 
the letters forming the word romanoro in it. Sig. Havercamp. 
ubi fupra, p. 68. 
(8) Morel. Num. Fam. Calpurn. Tab. IV. num. x6. et 
Tab. V. Sig. Havercamp. Comment . p. 68. Amftelodami, 1734. 
(9) Joan. Nic. Func. De Puerit. Ling. Lat. cap. v. p. 133, 
134. Marburgi Cattorum, 1720. ■ 
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