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Hunc unum plurimi confentiunt Roma , 
Bonorum optimum fuiffe virum , 
Lucium Scipione?n. Filius Barbati , 
Conful , Cenfor , JEdilis, hie fuit. 
Hie cepit Corjicam , Aieriamque Urbem. 
L)edit Fempe/iatibus adem merito. 
For -a farther account of which very curious inferip- 
tion, recourfe may be had to the authors here referred 
to, as well as others who have expatiated very largely 
upon it ( i o). 
V. 
From what has been here laid down it feems 
highly probable, that my quinarius firft appeared 
about the year of Rome 494, or rather that its firft 
appearance was a little anterior to that year. Which 
if we admit, it will follow, that the Romans bor- 
rowed the monogrammatic way of writing rather 
from the etruscans than the Greeks, as 1 afierted 
in (1 1) one of my former papers ; with the firft of 
which nations they were perfectly well acquainted, 
(10) Though the events mentioned by this infeription are a 
year later than thofe glorious exploits recorded by the Duilian, 
yet the rudenefs of the language announces the former to be 
much fuperior to the latter in point of antiquity. This, I doubt 
not, will be allowed by every fober critic, who examines the 
language of both with proper attention. Jacob. Sirmund. Hie- 
ronym. Aleand. apud Joh. Nic. Func. ubi fup. ut et ipfe Joh. 
Nic. Func. ibid. Vid. etiam Joh. Georg. Graev. Jacob. Fac- 
ciolat. Patavin. Joh. Georg. Walch. aliofque philolog. palT. 
(11) Philo fab. Tranfatl. VoU LXII. Tab. II a. 3. p. 61. 
64. not. * a 
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