SALVTIS. -- This word occurs on the obverse
of a denarius of the Acilia family, having for
its type the laureated head of a woman. -- The
reverse is inscribed M. ACILIVS III. VIR.
VALETV., and represents the figure of a female
standing, who holds in her right hand a serpent,
and rests her left arm on a little pilar. -- Eckhel
observes, on this silver coin (vol. v. 119) the
obverse exhibits the head of Salus, to whom, as
Livy relates, a temple was vowed, raised, and
dedicated by C. Junius Bubuleus, and which
Victor states to have stood in the sixth region of
Rome. But the word VALETV has induced
learned men to hazard various opinions upon
it. Onuphrius lengthens out the whole epigraph
by conjoining III. VIRi VALEtudinis TVendę,
functionaries hitherto unknown in Roman institutions. The same objection applies to the
III VIR VALETVdinarius of Patin.