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any one who has read what has been advanced on 
this head by Sig. Avvocato (B) Pafleri. This magi- 
ftrate is called (*) Meddixtuticus by (9) Livy. NI. 
LVFIUS, or LVVIVS, therefore, feems not to 
have been one of the Italian generals in the Social 
War, as (10) I formerly fuppofed, but one of the 
chief magiftrates either of the Ofcans or the Samnites, 
coeval with that war j there having (11) been two 
fuch magiftrates, anfwering to the two Roman 
Confuls, and the two Carthaginian Suffetes, in 
both thofe nations. That D inverted, Q, amongft 
the antient Etrufcans, and the Samnites, had the 
power of R, whence it came to pafs that thefe 
two elements were looked upon as nearly related 
to each other, and R not infrequently ufed for D, 
we learn from the (12) famous Matthaeus ./Egyptius 
and Father (13) Gori. We are not therefore to be 
(8) Joan. Baptift. Pafler. Pifaurenf. Junonal. Sacr. Men f. 
Herculanenf. in Symbol. Litter ar. &c. Vol. I. p. 209, 2io. Flo- 
rentiae, 1748. 
(*) The Meddixtuticus, or Mediaftuticus, of Livy feems to 
be formed of the two Samnite-Etrufcan words 22 ICK 13 H 4 , 
or 2 >IK 1 Q 3 M 4 > 2 KKT 3 V.T, merriss,merricks, 
or MEDDIX, TVF TICKS, orTVTICKS, notTVCTICKS, 
as Sig. Pafferi has written and pronounced it ; both which words 
feem to denote the fupreme magiftrate, or rather one of the two 
lupreme magiftrates, amongft the Ofcans and tbe Samnites. Pafler, 
ubi fup. p. 210 — 213. 
(9) Liv. Lib. xxvi. c. 6. 
(10) Philofeph. Tranfaff. Vol. LVIII. p. 258. 
(11) Jo. Bapt. Pafler. Pifaurenf. ubi fup. 
(12) Matthaus iEgypt. in Explicat. S. C. Romanor. de Bac- 
chanal. p. 148, 149. Neapoli, 1729. 
(13) Anton. Francifc. Gor . ^Muf, Etrufc. Vol. II. p.412, 
413. Florentiae, 1737. 
furprized 
