Exhibit (4)(G)
                                                                       

                          SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 2



                     OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

                                       to

                            WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY



       SUPPLEMENTAL  INDENTURE  NO. 2, dated as of December 31, 1997 between Old
Republic  International  Corporation,  a corporation duly organized and existing
under the laws of the State of Delaware  (herein called the  "Company"),  having
its principal executive office at 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago,  Illinois,
and Wilmington Trust Company, a banking  corporation duly organized and existing
under the laws of the State of Delaware, as Trustee
(herein called the "Trustee").

                             Recitals of the Company

       WHEREAS,  the Company and the Trustee  entered into an Indenture dated as
of August 15, 1992 and Supplemental Indenture No. 1 thereto dated as of June 16,
1997 (as  supplemented,  the "Indenture") in connection with the issuance by the
Company  from  time to time of its Debt  Securities  (herein  called  the  "Debt
Securities"); and

       WHEREAS, the Company issued a certain series of Debt Securities on August
26, 1992, and fully redeemed all such Debt  Securities  according to their terms
and conditions on March 18, 1996; and

       WHEREAS,   the  Company  issued  a  certain  series  of  Debt  Securities
designated  as the 7%  Debentures  due  June 15,  2007 on June  23,  1997 in the
aggregate principal amount of $115,000,000,  and such 7% Debentures due June 15,
2007 remain outstanding; and

       WHEREAS,  the Company may issue certain other Debt  Securities and, prior
to so doing,  desires to enter into a  supplemental  indenture to modify certain
provisions of the  Indenture,  as authorized by duly adopted  resolutions of the
Company's Board of Directors; and

       WHEREAS,  Article Nine of the Indenture permits the Company to modify the
Indenture  from  time  to  time  by  entering  into  one  or  more  supplemental
indentures,  and all  actions  required  to be taken  under the  Indenture  with
respect to this Supplemental Indenture have been taken.



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       NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the parties hereby agree
as follows:

1.     Covenants.

       (a)  Section  1006,  Limitations  on  Issue  or  Disposition  of Stock of
Principal Insurance Subsidiaries, of Article Ten (as previously amended pursuant
to  Supplemental  Indenture No. 1) is hereby  amended by adding to the beginning
thereof the following clause:

               "(a) With respect to the 7% Debentures due June 15, 2007"

       (b)  Section  1006,  Limitations  on  Issue  or  Disposition  of Stock of
Principal Insurance Subsidiaries, of Article Ten (as previously amended pursuant
to Supplemental  Indenture No. 1) is hereby further amended by adding to the end
thereof the following paragraph:

               "(b)  With  respect  to any  series  of  Debt  Securities  issued
       hereunder  other than the 7% Debentures due June 15, 2007, this Indenture
       shall not prohibit the Company or any Principal Insurance Subsidiary from
       issuing,  selling,  assigning,  transferring  or otherwise  disposing of,
       directly  or  indirectly,  any  of the  capital  stock  of any  Principal
       Insurance Subsidiary.

2.     Ratification of Indenture.

       This  Supplemental  Indenture  is executed  and shall be  construed as an
indenture  supplemental  to the  Indenture,  and as  supplemented  and  modified
hereby,  the  Indenture  is in all  respects  ratified  and  confirmed,  and the
Indenture and this Supplemental  Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as
one and the same instrument.

3.     Trust Indenture Act Controls.

       If any  provision of this  Supplemental  Indenture  limits,  qualifies or
conflicts  with  another  provision  which is  required  to be  included in this
Supplemental  Indenture by the Trust Indenture Act, the required provision shall
control.

4.     Indenture Definitions

       Capitalized terms used in this Supplemental Indenture and not otherwise
defined shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture.

5.     Governing Law.

       This  Supplemental  Indenture  shall  be  governed  by and  construed  in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, provided,  however,  that the
rights, duties and liabilities of the Trustee shall be governed by and construed
in accordance  with the laws of the State of Delaware so long as the  Wilmington
Trust Company is Trustee.

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6.     Duplicate Originals.

       This  instrument may be executed in any number of  counterparts,  each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original,  but all such  counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.


       IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the parties  hereto  have caused this  Supplemental
Indenture  to be duly  executed,  and  their  respective  corporate  seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.


(Seal)                                        OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL
                                              CORPORATION
Attest:


     /s/ John S. Adams                    By:          /s/ A. C.Zucaro
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                                              A. C. Zucaro, Chairman, President
                                              and Chief Executive Officer


(Seal)                                        WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
                                              as Trustee
Attest:


                                          By: 
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State of Illinois       )
                        )        ss:
County of Cook          )

       On the 7th day of January,  1998, before me personally came A. C. Zucaro,
to me  known,  who,  being  by me duly  sworn,  did  depose  and say  that he is
Chairman,  President and Chief Executive  Officer of Old Republic  International
Corporation,  one of  the  corporations  described  in and  which  executed  the
foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation;  that the seal
affixed to said  instrument is such  corporate  seal;  that it was so affixed by
authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation,  and that he signed his
name thereto by like authority.



                                              /s/ Catherine M. Giblin
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State of Delaware                         )
                                 )        ss:
County of New Castle             )

       On the before me personally came  ___________________,  to me known, who,
being  by me duly  sworn,  did  depose  and say  that  he is Vice  President  of
Wilmington  Trust  Company,  one  of the  corporations  described  in and  which
executed the foregoing  instrument;  that he knows the seal of said corporation;
that the seal affixed to said  instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so
affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation,  and that he
signed his name thereto by like authority.




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