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by the Romans and the Etrufcans, will (15) not ad- 
mit of a doubt. The Romans feem to have ufed the 
v/ords SORS and FORTUNA for one deity, on fome 
occafions j and, on others, the term SORTES, as 
applicable to more divinities, and FORTVNAE, or 
FORTUNAE ANTIAT, as relative to two, to whom 
they affigned the ( 1 6) epithets F ORTIS, and FELIX. 
One or both of thofe epithets may poffibly be point- 
ed out to us by the letter F, which precedes the 
words SOR ANT, on the bafis below the buff of the 
goddefs SORS, on the reverfe of the coin in queftion. 
But that this is the true import of the word to which 
that letter belongs, I muff by no means take upon me 
pofitively to affirm. 
VI. 
The medals of the Plsetorian family fimilar to that 
I have been confidering Havercamp (17) takes to 
have been ffruck in the time of the civil war, that 
fucceeded Julius Caefar’s death in which, perhaps, 
he may not be very remote from truth, though this 
he has not irrefragably proved. If it fhould, how- 
ever, be allowed probable by the learned, the coin 
before me, which muft be nearly of the fame date 
with that war, will feem to have preceded about 
forty years the birth of Christ, 
(13) Vid. Anton. Francifc. Gor. ubi fup. p. 214. 215. Sam. 
Pitifc. in Lex. Antlquitat. Romanar. palT. alioique author, quam 
plurim. 
(16) Fabrett. Infcript. Antiqu. cap. ix. p. 632. Sig. Haverc. 
ubi fup. p. 324, 369. Amffdasdami, 1734. Vid. etiam Vulp. 
Vet. Lat. Prefan. tom. III. cap. v. p. 98, & feqq. 
(17) Sig. Haverc. ubi fup. p. 325. 
VII. 
