“ This town either changed its name or perished some time after the middle of the 3rd century B.C., when it was issuing coins of its own with an Oscan legend. The town Larinum, which belonged to the same people (Pliny, Nat. Hist. iii. 103) , became latinized before 200 B.C., as its coins of that epoch bear a legend—LARINOR (VM) —which cannot reasonably be treated as anything but Latin. ”