Clue #5 - Fear Factor at Dinosaur Hill

At Dinosaur Hill, we were given a piece of paper with a series of roman numberals on it. Taking a hint from the "Fear Factor" title, we broke down each number into its factors... and, as it turned out, each number had only two prime factors.

CCXCIX = 299 = 13 * 23
CCCI = 301 = 7 * 43
DCXI = 611 = 13 * 47
LXIX = 69 = 3 * 23
DCCXIII = 713 = 23 * 31
CCXV = 215 = 5 * 43
Seeing that no factor was greater than 101, and knowing that there are 26 prime numbers less than or equal to 101, we set the value of A to be the first prime (2), the value of B to the second prime (3), etc. Converting the factors above to letters in that fashion, the factors read:

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