Robert Seymour Conway

“ The latter inscription contains also the forms magist [r] es (nom. pl.) and ueci (gen. sing.) , which show that the Latin first spoken by the Vestini was not that of Rome, but that of their neighbours the Marsi and Aequi (qq.v.) . The inscription of Scoppito shows that at the time at which it was written the upper Aternus valley must be counted Vestine, not Sabine, in point of dialect. ”