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Doctrine of Ancient Coins, vol. 6 — 1797

Josef Hilarius Eckhel, 1797 · provisional Latin–English translation

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Ancient colors. tONSECRATlO Typiadmodumvariis^ rogi^ arae^ peacock^ lectisternH lunon, Paustinae ab aquilasursum iaata^ the moon among the seven planets. AR. A£. I.

Ft. Mr.

MATRL CASTROVUM Mnlier sit down d. phoenix s. spear, juxia two, in to others three military standards were fixed. AR. AE. I. (Mus. Caes.)

Act on the title of Mairis Casirorum the god of Faustina Tiva.

Be lit. A. SIDERIBVS; RECEIVED A woman standing with the moon set on his head, a torch in each hand carried In others: Faustina veil by ca^ well, winding in the fleet of citizens. AE* L (Mus. Caes.)

The number of foreign commas.

Free words.

A great reward for these signatories is a train Not a few of these Tarie it is written; for AN* is often preferred NIA, which name never in the Romans ndditur Sometimes it is only written; «I>ATCT1NA.N€A., as in the gods of Aeza- nis, and Temni. (Pellerin. Mel. il.) It is said adeomra, seujuniorf to be discerned by his mother's surname. Undoubtedly signed These are the gods before the title of Augusia it would have been ornamental. In other «l>ATCTeiNA. NeA.ceBACTH., as innumo Pergamum,

•) Supplcfn.,T.* Vi tab. (50. {Fol. II.)

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FAVSTINA IVNIOR

(Vaill.) Philippopelis Thrace, {Mn8« Caes.) and Anchiali Thrace- (Neumann For pop. p.iiS.) In the most complete pairs, and the refined ones whom I once Tulgavi (Num. Tet« p. i83.) and signed by Nicaea Bithy- nieces: AN. NGA cl) ATCTEINA CGB The previous two Toces are not connected you give, so that it should be read ANNGA, and this by the fall of the mint for ANNIA, It is distinguished by the fact that one N is separated from the other it is separated only by the intertallus, and not by anything Terisimil agreement, coinage in pairs Numis diTcrsi typed in the same way twice casse, presumably leaving between AN and NG A greater interTallum, than reli- which address the law required, then writing NGA. for NIA YoQabulum NGA is not necessarily ppstposed, for we also read in the gods of Zenodoius NEo^

I will not speak of the names inscribed: NO ©EOI. NEA, HPA. NO HAIOI The same in the god of Byzantium apnd Pellerinius (MeL' II.) to him in Alexandria It is often said: CeB.eTCEB.0Tr. Tel 6TI'A. , that is, as I use the Romans: AYG. II. Phil. The magistrate is acting as a functionary in the gods of Byzantium: em. ©eAC. «I>AT. CTINHC. Yide the gods of this city.

Of silver III. written forms: TneP. NIKHC. PflMAIXlN, Tide, which we have said to the gods of the uncertain city Mesopotamian Yol. III. p. Sso, which in rcione that they had been driven out of Teriaimile I think

Colonies of God to pass through. Ynicus re- Yaillantius perishes, a few of his posterity the rich

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Alexandria was quite frequent.

PHETtrM.

Commaiis Rom^nix

Golden «•••«•••€.

I observe that I have not yet come across the coin of Fauttina's comecraia {€M$and^ of which see^ which monebimua under the end of the numbers of Commodus of this number of gold, as we have already mentioned above in M. Aurelius, in which place about the price of the stars' ears We went this August. (Page 76.)

Silver '.C

Aeneas mar. forms • • • . • BBR^

Aeneas I and II form C*

Aenei IIL form ..«••*..««•. Oh Foreign commas: *

Silver BRB.

The rest of the Tide a little above

ANNIFS FEnrs.

Annius Vems was born to his father M. Aurelius Aug. and Faustina Aug. in the year Y. C. 916

two years after Commodus, and Antoninus the twins come to light, who a year from

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teiopore xnqrlia is made. Peiente L« Bring back Yero from the East, as the sons of Marcus Cae9ares would be called *) y to that summit He was released with his brother Commodus on the day XII. October Y. C. 91Q ^). But not for long He was fortunate enough to survive. Indeed, T-C. 9^3 at the same time as the departure IB Mareomanos father was preparing, exseto Praeneste is seven years old iBortuus The sorrowful father decreed that you should stand dead, and the golden image of Circens bns to be carried, and to sing songs no- his mind would be inserted <^).

This Year Vcrum Lampridius to- cat Severitn ^), But Casaubonus for The Wild Sex is considered a severe read.

Name:

Cmsnath Romanu

ANNIV8» VERVS. Slaughter AN- Toni. AVG. Phil. I caught An- not true. COMFORT CAE8. ANTONINI AVG* Phil. The head of Commodus is bare. AE« almost L The herald of the name is Vaillantius, and already before Bonc Peter Bellorius ^ who like from the museum of Cardinal Maximus of Rome gavit added

VERSE CAESAR like DVS CAESAR And the two cajfui look naked THE TIME HAPPINESS I am looking forward to it the young woman of the year de^ignanieu AE. max. mod, (Vaill. Mus. Florent. tab. XXVL Mtts. Tbeup.)

An elegant bik tjpus now primmnm in he compares the coin, which is in his hands Commodus and Caracalla will rise Diocletian, and others. He will drink toor Horas, or as many Tices, which they succeed each other at an annual interval, Tcr, summer, autumn, winter. Sin- their gluttons flaunt their gifts, which they themselves they educate; with the rest of the naked He is justified against his own in- seeking clemency for protection, Telnt in the octagonal tower of Andronicus, which is At Benis, it is imagined that Boreas was the pallinine of Tulti covering 0. Cala- ber, when he narrates, that he should stay with Lunon my servants

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T«j TTOT* a^ HiX/0» Xa^^i; ifiviSsiffct SsKviini 'Tntar ai i^am iv^p ar€i^iaf\ iStp

Ofjuoiag AShfiKaigj iJLO^yi ^i ^isn^iSa aXKyi

aXKfig. Uy irs^vi ;^f #yica>yi xai aicyoKi^i/ii fUfAVihi. What once was the form of the Sun

Peppers through the sky iJium infaHgakiieifj nothing in the matter of simiiea

I will give you more: the form is really different other from aiia^

At the end of the winter, you should take care of yourself

a) Capitoline in Aurelius chap. 12. b) Lamprid. in Commodus chap. 1. and chapter 11. c) Ca- pitolin chap. 21. d) in Commodus ch. t. e^ BeauTsis bist des Emp. T. I. p. 245

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Between this and the next yersa cer- this is the lacana, which, qaod adaliasHo* ras pertains, absorbed. The same tanqaam Callimachus records the counts of Ceres -de this strawberry goddess singing thus *) :

(f>s^t€fa H|£/y %ai ^dfjro^rw^oy , srog^ stg oKKo (pvKa^Si. Thus nobU tnagfM goddess will rule widely The white spring ^ and the summer ^ and almost winter It will come, and the autumn, and it will come" then in that year Morvadit

The Greeks have been elegant these four years Tices y if he were happy, in one word ivsrvi^iag to express, and public happiness they rolled the symbol of being What about Libanius said thrice, "the happiness of the land." DepTaedicans of Anliochensis >'): vi^s^ ^s TOtuvTifis rrig iffisrs^uf yfjg ii il^ui xo^svy^ Ci9 sfJLfJLsKcog ^ in such a Molo of our year the beauty of the tempest

Stranger commas.

Numi Annius Yerl is also of this class to pass through Ynum of the uncertain city was published by Yail- Lantius: (Numi Grec. p. 63.)

M. ATPHAIOT ANTXlNeiNOT.

TlOI« Capiia adverse Commodus^ and

The souls of the brothers AT. KAIC. ATP ANTilNeiNOC. The head of Aurelius is bare. AE. 2,

The head of both of them also rests on the nu- misinscriptisKABlPXlN.CTPlilN., in on the other side of which are the heads of M. Au-

relii, and L. Veri laureate bearded, quoi We once produced the currency of Tripoli Phoenicians But pay attention also to them, qaae of these gods soon ob^erTabimas*

Annius Yerus had his father thrones, whose benevolence is abundant in wealth He is believed to have increased the coinage. Lobet describe them here with additional observations bus, to which the Caesars had the gods In a little while, I hope, they will rejoice.

OTHPOC. KAICAP. head au-

while the beard AMACTPIANHN. tripping snake AE. almost 2 (Froelich Appendix II.)

BHPOC A youthful head bare. lONXlN. I was taken by a woman. AE. (Ham. T. II. page 288.) but to be corrected praya reverse inscription inPOAIIlN, as it teaches a similar edition in the museum of Christina tab. 50 no. i6.

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Froelichius in money from the proposals first comment to prove content He says, "It is true that Caesar is mentioned in it." it cannot be either L. Aelius from Hadria not adopted, or L. Yerum Augustus, or M. Aurelius, who all are of some sort at the time of taking the name of Feri. Triboen while therefore the fourth of this name, viz It is the year in which we are, says Yero. As for the former two, easily lest they agree with a learned man. But we will not be equally patient, M. Aore* lyum everywhere from jnre, which they felt it was money, I exclaimed. Froelicfaii the argument is, M. Aurelius, com ai* mul Caesar declared, and in Aurelius He adopted the family of Antoninus,

a) in Cercr. v. 122. b) in Antioch.

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U. Say that Aeius Aurelius did the truth so, and at least I leave the time without Aa I was left to appear innumerable. later but for this part we need a distinct one. A certain Saint Aurelius I always said, and this name was never absent from heaven Roman commas, but whether also in nu* my commas strangers? It is clear enough Greek cities on this side the laws of Bpma mo* Netarias either added names, or ex with tears, he chose what he pleased. Paul We fear Faustina the younger in the Greek coin it is called Annam the name of the currency of the city never recovered; let her also be called N € A N , junior^ also this without any example. So also by the Greeks Crispina is called BPOTTIA, and Saloni- na XPTCOrONH, these things are not threat to the Romans Mark's first name in nu- mis Aurelius still Caesar's factory Bo- not c^t to read manas, but not these rarely found in foreign lands^ Con- tra in the Boman gods, e. c. Trajan, and Antoninus Pius never met with the writing Uotum: TBAIANVS. CAESAB, tcI: MP ANTONINVS, however, in most cases The Greeks only read: TPAIANOC. KAICAP, and ATTox^aw^ ANTilNl- NIGHT Therefore from several names, which let each one have his own, write no* mis, which it pleased me to write, and as in to others, M. Aurelius, in the name of Caesar to write more fully : M. ATPHAIOC.OTH- POC.KAICAP., ilain aliisparcius: AT- PHAIOC.OTHPOC.KAICAP, or tom: ATPHAIOC. KAICAP, what- oiahabesapud Pellerinium •) alqueadeo in others also only OTHPOC. KAT- CAP., as in the present of the Amastrians

god And at this point it is not enough to be surprised I can, that head from Froelichius, which in the forest with clear cheeks, and men- then the beard is removed, even from him, nt it appears from the iconography, recognized as Annius To the true tribe, who died, when an whether he did not act until the seventh month of Titus. Ve- rum from another god sentenlia Froelichius clearly CTertiturum, which here from Pellerinius wait ^).

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OTHPOC. KAICAP. I took ju-

come naked CTPI K ABIPfl. Laureate head of Anto- ninus Pius, and Faustina the younger. A£. 11. If we listen to Froelichius, here we are M. Aurelius cannot be, since he is absent the name Aureiii» But much less L« Ae- He may be the one who still priTa to , with the right taroen the head of the other nuroi prepare eYhibet, he died, or L. Veri, who Tivo Antoninus neither Veri nor Cae He still had the name of Sari, or of the True Year. who was not even born to Tito Antoninus. Therefore the deity either belongs to none or to one It will be M* Aurelius, and he will prove it by one this god, which has hitherto been proved I had established, Aurelius noroen not always to have been pursued by this god. But for I would like to give you another loan, which I will add to verify adTOCo:

OTHPOC. KAICAP. Capulju*

come to nothing CTPI KABIPUN. Two heads of youth iiaserespieientia AB. II. (HaTm.T.lLp. 289. Pellerin. honey I. p. 79.)

It should be noted that the head of the front is in ectjpo Hajmian's second chin is luculen- to offer such a beard; the girl may be born in the true year.

•) Mel. II. p. 86. 87. b) Mcl. I. p. 77.

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Lure punishes Pcllerinias Hajmia, qaod this very thing was given to L. Verus j here, before M. Aurelius in colle- Caesar's command of the empire He had no wild names, and then at the same time Caesar, Augustus at the same time, Yerus at the same time say it is yours, that we may turn our attention to his gods. Therefore, according to the previous statements of this item the head of the front is M. Aurelius. And what- let there be two a?ers heads, less ex* on foot Commodus, and Annius Yeri they cannot be, as Pellerinius from intel- Haymius seems to think ill of the bed; for these were not yet born to Aurelius yet Cae- sare If the head on the left is that of a woman, that discrimination in that kind of god is often found there is no doubt, no doubt it will be Lucilla's the daughters of Aurelius, and opposite the head of Ce- of the Ionian Commodus, who from time to time L. Yerus it was said, and with this mother Lucilla nio juncttts

We must think differently about the god, whom with these yerbs the actor of the unused Theu- poles, (page 91 3.)

. OTHPOC. KAICAP. CapuiAn- the naked beast.

CTPIHN KABIP. The opposite head of M. Aurelius^ and L* Feri laureate^ AE. III.

Istttd announcement if true, head an- It is not necessary to be of another kind, than the hujas our Annius Yeri, with M. Aurelius already He invaded Ayersa. Anyway, through this dis- I didn't do that pruning, so that I could get rid of it. Annius Yero could not meet the epigra- phenOTHPOC. KAICAP, but Untum they also used Aurelius Caesar, which tfiegaTit yir excellent Froelichitts.

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I came up with what I just did, as follows

these rules flow by themselves. Numi in written

M.ATPHAIOC.BHPOC. (velOTH- FOC.) KAICAP, they are so much M. Aure- it is clear that

ATPHAIOC- OTHPOC. KAICAP. Aurelius was still Caesar's, and so were these I used names. I would not deny it altogether L. Yero Aug. 1 with the Greeks not infrequently C€BACTOT tilu- they suppressed the light, but then easily indi- from his face; if younger, and moderate Stius bearded, will be Aurelius, if he promises He weighs his beard, L. Veri.

ATP BHPOC yel: ATPHAIOC OTHPOC. Aurelius only, perhaps also L. YeriAug. according to the information yielding to the rule brought The author of the museum Theopoli them too confidently L« Vero Aug. is presented ").

OTHPOC. KAICAP. SitiTultusadul more, and especially if he promises a beard lit., there is no doubt that M. Aurelius Caesar; unless he is very young, he will not be disappointed True year. Other peristases, qua- The lessons I mentioned above are generally easy they will snpped it. Wrong Haj my money thus inscribed is given L* Vero, *>), and this too frequently the author of the Museum of Theupoli makes a mistake I observe, however, that the first name is suppressed A, or Lucius, and the title CGBACTOT it is possible to compe even the gods thus inscribed grind Vero Aug. , but that chance will be rare and then those features will be patronized beard of promise, laurel

BHPOC The head is youthfully bare, in numo, which above from Hajmius the second time instead I described He published it in the year of Vero

a) Pag. 915 €t 918« b) Tom. II. p. 289.

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He considers it to be a tribulation. I don't know what to do native Indeed, they are slower ments, than for the age of the girl seven snow but often the return of the children of Cae- anticipating the age with images nmt. In a similar manner to the museum of Christina, which I brought in the same place, the more yult He goes to the baby. He does it for Annius even just a joke of BHPOC, for It happened, as we have said, the time when Caesar it was not yet

OTHPOCANTilNINOC, in a god Amastriae musei Tbeupoli p« 91 3, qui It is correctly described to you, it could be L.

Veri Aug., whom one and the same tem-^ that the name of Antoninus was borne by the authors some testify. This rcTOCa- I will be below in Yero, in which place the suit about ya- I will discuss the names of Riisbujus Augustus. BHPICCIMOC KAICAP. Money thus inscribed on the Tjrans of Sarmatia on page 69. after Yaillantin M. Aurelius We give to Caesar. If faith in Herodian *), Bni^tiftrifiog was also touched by Annius Ve- country If this is the case, neither to this one nor to this one the money is lacking in law. fun from the face it will depend whether he is at least a bearded man or quite unbearded, and the form of a child.

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PRETIFM

ComPMfii Romanii

Of gold, and of silver ••••«••••• O. Copper max. mode , if only genuine • • • • RRRR« Aeneas I and II of the form « • • RRR.

CdmmattM the pilgrims of the Greek cities*

Aeneas II. form •••-••• RRR«*

Aenei IIL of the form, the only one cited by cL BeauTais. of Alexandria, and of the colonies not yet compertL

L. ^FRELIFS FERFS

L. Cephonius Commodus was born Ro* still in love with his father Aelius Caesar mother, as we said in this, we are not uncertain threats, in the year 5. C. 883. P^X. i3o., as from the time of adoption, when sep- Ca- pitolinus *>). His 15th birthday De- Cembri, where Nero was born, as he relates the same <^), and on which day he also conspires

Calendar Lambecil. Father from Ha- Driano V» C. 888. adopted into the family He was transferred to Aelia, and was called L. Cejoniu9 AeliuM Aureliw Commodue^ et that y C. 891 Kalendis lanuariis mor-* Yours remained in Hadrian's family ^). This Hadrian's nephew by adoption when, a little after the death of Aelius, Anto* he had adopted none for himself, on account of his father's merit

a) L. 1 c. 2. b) in Vero c. 2. c) Ibid ch. l. d) Capitol" in True c. 2.

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at the same time Antoninus together with M* Aarelio was to be adopted *). make tum islud V. C. 891 day 25 February Tiu Haec and M^Aurelii, and L. Veri per The adoption of the AQtoninus was the result of many of them places from Spartan ^) and Capitoline c) to closed, yet the same little con- standing elsewhere adopted by Antoninus Au* relium, from the goat cian, so that the True Aurelius by adoption nor should a son be considered, not a brother and yet through the very speech of the said forgetful brothers constantly apply them let Enimyero^ common to both through having adopted his father Antoninus, and by this law they were brothers, before that arguments with which to remove this Tillemontius uses dissent, manifesting 8to is proved from coaero marble, which edidil Gruterus «) : IMP. Slaughter DIVI ANTONINI, F. DIVI LVDII Oegcn- while L.VERI.) PARTH.MAXIML FRA- THREE etc. The brotherhood is called True in marble Masonry ^. In a significant other Graterian marble 6) True, likewise and in others Aurelius f is called />. j^nt. Pious son of D.Hadrian's nephew, etc. St. Lustinus

Martjr you join Vero these shores tar: A«n/m ^psKoffoptf K,ut

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Transferred therefore into the family of Anto-^ nini all the time that this government held, shot in a private manner, without any Caesaria either by title or honor open yita* intemperate symptoms, tan* and that the son of Augustus was joking V. G. 906 he died a questura, and raoz in the following year 907 the consulship of I^). Int6r- after 7 years in the same year as Varron 914, on which day Antoninus died, when His brother Aurelius proceeded as consul II. compare* mante that Gruterian marble I)j because the titles and names of Truth in the last period of his private life I attach the contents here:

M. A^LIO. AVRILUS- It is true. to kill IH COS.

L. Aelius AVRILUS COMFORTABLE II.

P. R. C* ANN. Namely, 732,400 from the Parilis of the previous year.

r. c ^/5. p. X. 16U

CAESAR AVGVSTVS. TR. P.

COS. II. Kalendis is still deprived of wool the consul goes again with his brother

sule III He died about the 7th day of May Antoninus Pius, by the grace of his brother ga comes to power, collatts one tem* by Caesar, and by the titles of Augustus, as well tribe power, and proconsulship, likewise

a) Spartan in Aelius c. 7- b) in Aelius c. 2. c) in Antoninus c. 4. d) Spartan.

in Aclio c.'6 Capitoline in Aurelia c. 5. and in Vcro c*2. c) Pag. 29. 13. f) Pag. 1121. 7-

g) Pag. 258. h) Apology I. in the beginning i) Capitoline in Vcro c. 3. k) Ibid. 50 c. 1> Pg. 300

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by the name of Ferty, whom Anrelias had previously entered, When Commodus came before him, Tocaretor •).

And the marble of Gruter a little before me Moratorum Aurelius still Caesaremy and Yemm private at the beginning of this year

if&tit, so ezimiura something else ineonte both were found in the ass at Puteoli already Augustus, and with the news of both of them minibus already since the 23rd of March and so soon after his accession to the kingdom bet, he has omitted the rest ^):

IMP. to cease (sic) M. AVRELIO ANTONINO AVG. III. ^ qq , AND IMP. to cease (sic) L. AVRELIO It is true. AVG. IL

Don't I :

To be ordered to the gods of truth, ho- rum tjpos from those j whom in rooneta Aure- We were afraid to differ little except a few cis none to the truth proper, for as honors so that the glory of the deeds is common Toloemnt Why should not any idle re- I ask, and most of the explanations aem from his brother's coin of the same year I will advise you.

A. IMP* CAES. L. Avrel. VERSE I took the laurel, eel «udum, in Av. AR. AE. L eiiam radiated in AB //.

B. IMP. L, AVREL. VERSE AVG. Laureate head, or bare, in Av. to him AH

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Vt. title A. COS. II. iypi9 varied. AR.

I left the name: CONCORDUE. AV- GVSTOR. or: LIR. A VGVSTOR or : Prov. GOD adding almost constantly: TR. P. COS. II. in Aurelio perish

r: c. 9f5. p. X. fez. m p. 150 cos. //.

In this year he goes to the Parthian war Verns* (See the annals of Aurelius.)

A* IMP. Slaughter L. Avrel. VERSE A bare head, in AV. AH. AE. L also radiated, in AE. IL

B. IMP. L. VERVS. AVG. Ci^t naked, in AH. (Mus. Caes.)

C. L. AVREL. VERSE AVG. Ca- put naked^ in Quin. golden (Mus. You kill.)

Mr. Imp. Slaughter L. A VREL. VERSE AVG. This P, II. COS. no. Head naked in AE. max. mode (Mass You kill.)

♦ * •

As lit. C.

TR. POT THE COS. IL Woman $tans d. fflobum^ M. comucopiae. Quin. AV. (Mos. You kill.)

The rest': CONCORD. AVGV- STOR. or : PROV. GOD by adding by TR P. 11. COS. II. , as in the gods Aurelius

a) Capitoline in Aurel. c. 7. and in Verus c. 4. {Fol. VIII)

b) Vignoli on the AntOQ Column. p. 5^. M

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TR. P. Hl. COS. 11. IMP. II. ARMEmACrS begins.

From Tindicata through the Dacians Armenia "there, the title of emperor is born to the brothers, as and the Armenians, but who is Aurelius elsewhere? how much the sister admits.

A* IMP. Slaughter L. Avrel. VERV8. AVa TR. P. Itt. COS. IL Ca- I put Jaureatum^ in AB. m. m. ^Mus. You kill.)

B. IMP. Slaughter L. Avrel. VEflVS. AVG. A head of laurel^ or while, in AE. /. also radiated in AB 11.

C. IMP. L. VERV8. AVG. Head naked^ in AR.

Mr. Imp. CAE8. L. VERVS. AVG. A bare head, in AV,

E. L. VERVS. AVG. ARMENIA CVS Chapter ttudum^ inAH.

n nt. B.

Departure. AVG. TR. P. lU. COS. II. 8. C. Emperor's horse d. haatam In Aiiia is also preceded by a military figure. tribu$ 9equeniibu$ A£. I. II. (Mus. Caes.) and in these gods the treacherous departure or it is understood that he went to Syria He instituted Farthos from the city, or when himself from Antioch, which city tit, he moved the enemy against him. For though himself more pleasures than enemies bus nets intended, and the whole war through completed the legations, yet for the whole quadrennial no, what was the expense of this war

twice to the Euphrates he went to Rome, as he reports to the Capitol* nut *)•

Ft UL B AMEN. TR. P. III. IMP. H. COS. IL Armenia on the ground of $eden$ between the arms of the country d. caputfulcU^ s,navi$ proraeimpo$ita* AR (Mus. Caes.)

*Aiiu$i $ed$ine ARMEN. AR. (Mas. You kill.)

From these gods, who already in Iribunatu IIL betray the Armenians, do* Let us take this title somewhat true Matarius adopted by his brother? for here mum Armeniacu$ is read in the tri- Bunatus 18 ^ who answers to the tribune your true fourth Even here in Armenia tjpus sitting on the ground is frequent in Au* I left the money, but here too for the first time in it dem tribune XVIII See also Au- Relium snb the title of Armenians. ship in say yidetur naTalem aliqnam Ticto* ria won from the Armenians on the Euphrates. These gods, as far as I know, are the only ones who with • tribunatn IIL conjoin the title IMP^ IL

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The rest of the gods: FELIC.- AVG. relative FORT. RED. or 8 ALVTI AVGV- STOR. always add TR P. UI. C08. II. and with the proper tjpi.

K C 911. P. X. 164. TR. P. IF. COS. II. ARM IMP. U.

He goes to Ephesus, as Lueilla the daughter of Aurelius, and the wife destined for him he would take over the matter. Bellnm Parthicum conr be prevented

]^ a) in Verus cf.

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A. L. VEBVS. AVG. ARMENIA CVS I took the laureate while, in AF. Others AE. II.

B. L. AVBEL. VEBVS. AVG. AB- Meniacs The head is washed veltuduoi^ in AR. AE. /. shave then^ in AE. IL

As lit. A. AMEN. TB P. Ull. IMF H. COS. II. Tffm*^ as intimilianmpraecedeniiM. AV* AR. (Mu8. Caes.)

rt As A. KING GET AWAY DATE TB P. no. IMP. II. COS. II. Emperor in 9ugge9iu Medenz adtantindu* two figures diademed it surrounds the king. AV« (Mjis«Cae8^)

lit. B. The same epigraph^ but more fully in others: KING INSANE DATVS IMP. IL TR. P. UU COS. II. S. C. The same tgpfis, 9ed adMtantibuM in mggeMtu iridus figures. AE. I. (Mus. Caes.) AE. II. (VailK)

Begis hu)us a Vero Armeniis secun- I will give the names of those who have been imposed, and n«s reticet the biographer CapitoUnus, di« be content, tell the truth to the maker I surrendered to the kings *). In accordance with this Photius compensates for the silence, who, when lambliGhi i^Tina reviews ^ these him narrates about himself He was born in the times of Soames rn Kxo^iiJ^ >#J« Ti*A^o'a3MS'», quirex fiiit by the fathers born of kings, and the same senator Bomanus, and the consul, and afterwards the queen the king of Armenia, and the fact that

at the time Antoninus commanded, who the emperor and the same brother He sent his own, and his sons, as Vologaesus Partho would bring war. It belongs to which Suidas reports, etez8tat in Dio- ne Beimari ^), from March Vcro, who pro Vero Aug. He waged war in Armenia sent to Thucydides, qut Soaemus fn He would bring back Armenia. Where we are taught, him He had already ruled Arraenia, but from there defeated by the Parthians, now restored by Verus then Ahem! how thin the clouds are which we are ordered to accomplish almost with such an illustrious government we begin to drink. Here~ aVerse type in The god of Aurelius has not yet been found

lit. A. and B. TB P. III. IMP. II. COS. II. various B printed in every metal and form. These three three times more illustrious: Hercules standing d. eleae ra^- mother cTavam^ and expvias of the fast. AV (Mus. Caes.y

Another similisy but with the addition of preieteai HEBCPAC AV. (VaiIT.)

Irleculem pacifemm roonelae while Verns took care of the author to be restored as soon as possible of peace

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The arguments of the god of this year's war they will encounter obstacles.

r. C. 91%. P. X. 16S. TB P. r. COS. THE ARM IMP. //.

The Parthians were The real emperor Aurelius /// to say there, he already had the title of Parthian Maximus

a) iD VCro ch. 7'.

b) God. 9^. in fme. c> under 'Miu^ios Bi/i^. d) Tom. IL

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this I like to adopt nor Aorelias.

L^ AVREL. VERSE AVG. AR- Meniacs I took the lamreaium in AE.h also laureaUm velnur while^ %n AE.IL

L. VERVS. AVG. ARMENIA CVS Capuilaureatum^ velnudu 4n AV. AB AE. I. let it shine* 1, in AE. H.

B.

Be Kt. A. or B. TR. P. V. IBiP. THE COS. IL fyptM variie the victory of the ParthiooM was bursting in every way metal

lit. A. LIBERAL AVG. TR. P. V. IMP. II. COS. IL S. C. Li5eralita9 9tana. AE. IL Numi thus inscribed snnt obiii, but ra« he is better, if only properly received graphci <{aem among bronze 11. forms describes the Vaillants: LIB.AVG. IL TR. POT V. laiP. U. COS. IL, but it was not true the second house of the bajas of the year it was

In the same year: PABTH. MAX. IMP. III.

L. VERVS. AVG. ARM PARTH.

MAX. Laureate head. TR. P. V. IMP. II COS. IL typiM va- riiM prostrate Parthia tOMtibuM in AV. AB AE. I.

V. C. 919. P. X. f66. TB P. VI. COS. IL DBS IIL ABM PABTH. MAX. IMP. IIL IV. From the Farthic war rednx ona cam fra-

He makes a triumph over the Parthians which had previously been brought to him by the Parthic Maximus, and Aurelius, the title holder of the Middle Ages,

A. L. VERVS. AVG. ARM part MAX* Ci^nit taureatum^ in AF. AB AE. /., also of rays in AE. IL

B. L. VERVS. AVG. ARM PAHTH. MAX. MEDICINE I took the laurel in Mingulari Aeneo 1. fortnae.

m

Vt liL A. UB AVG. IIL TR. P. VI. COS. IL JW-

beralitaM MtauM AR. (Mus. Caes.)

For this year the Aurelians were drunk numiAE.L, but inscribed : CONG.AVG. IIL, but for both gods the congiarium III. from both emperors, one and the same at the time they declare same day collated and corroborated, L. True to a certain extent to sooner than Aurelius the Parthian Maximus to have adopted the title, but below to this ti- let's talk about it.

Vt liL A. TR. P. VL IMP. III. COS. H. iypie va- riiM. tLSr* AR. AE. I. IL

In the same year: MEDICVS IMP. IV. '

Vttt. B. TH. POT VL IMP. IIIL COS. H S. C. Four times the emperor took the laurel branch a god in a triumphal chariot. AE. I. (You are beautiful Mouse Pellertn. B.L. T. 25. bis. p.S.) Numus stmilcm, only Aurelius no- in minibuses, and on the shores we went the coin of Aurelius, in which place and ^e borum By the rarity of the booms, and the price,

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qnod especially from the title of MEDICINE which pair exhibits the opposite, CQlli{;itun I will leave you with an explanation from apply in the same place* As lit. A. TR. P» VI. IMP^ IIIL COS. 11. typtM ponii tropaea Parthica predicatitibu9 in all metal, and form.

V. a 920. P. X f67.

TB P. II. COS. That arm. PARTH.

MAX. IMP. IV.

Bxepirai in mitmie MEDICFS.

A brother to the Marcomanic war

coroitatar Look at this year's anna-

les Aurelius

L. VERVS. AVG. ARM PARTH. MAX. Laureate head. CONG. AVG. III TR. P. VII. IMP. my COS. IIL LiheralitoM Mtane. Av. (Mua. Caes.)

There is also a lodge of the same number in the gods of Aurelius, but as far as I know, Aeneas so much, but in another place.

Pay attention. TR. P. VII. IMP. IIIL COS. IIL fypi» variously in every metal and form.

Badem epigraphe* Protome Feri

Umreata oheerao behind, when I drove*

from in the chest TR. P. VIL IMP. IIIL COS. III Fter- that the emperor triumphalibut in a team the soldiers advance, the troops um. AE. max. mode (Mus. M. Ducis.)

The guy talks about the triumph of the year before giving way

F. C. 9Zt. P. X. f68.

TB, P. FJIL COS. III. ARM PABTH.

MAX. IMP. IF. F.

None of the other emperors ask for achievements from M. Aurelius.

L. VERVS. AVG. ARM PARTH.

MAX. Laureate head. TR. POT VIII. IMP. IIIL in other IMP. V. COS. III. tgpis varied in every metal* ■ fo, etforma.

The same reverse. I add the same epigraph ARMENIA. Fe* the country is riding an Armenian projectile with a spear digs A£. max. mode (Mus. Albani)...

The same reverse. TR. P. VIII IMP. III. COS. IIL Fter- that the emperor in the triumphal team standing beside the girl, the soldiers advance Next to the dish with the trophy and the prisoners. AE. max. mode (Mus. de Camps.)

This god recalls the memory of the triad phi of the Parthians, whom both emperors need two years before, admitted also in the car of M. Aurelius for the children of both se- xus, as a witness to the Capitoline *). And yet the customer was young, and standing there the triumphant children of the same reason ru yehi. Narrates Zonaras from Dion ^), you die, as one who triumphs in the city I entered the children and relatives of both the sexes, indeed, were still pretextual on the horses of the Jugales, he would put the lanterns on them. But if there were more than one horse the neighbors will follow the cut. Appiant when he carried the cans of triumph, whom the elder Africanus played, the Roman triumphs

a) in Aurel. c 12. b) Aunal. Tom. 11.

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describes, in general •) : «V/^^'»**^' ^* axntA iiriTO i^/xu TrutSig rt nui na^^ivot^ 9ca/ int rm ^u^yio^m eHarf^a)dey v^i^sot itvfYyevsi^, The sons are carried in the same chariot fiUaeque^ to him with the lanterns of horses on both sides Mtantur adoiescentea conaanpuinei» Hunc Cicero also insinuates the custom ^) : ^n^ with to ride on the triumphant horses the best of the children from Suetonius Tiberius «) umpho currum Auguati comitavia goes aini^ in front of the lantern with a horse, ~ with Marcellus Octa- the tributary of the road should ride on the right* Domitia- did the trtumph of father and brother with a white horse tatum, we said to the Hujuans T, C. 824 "What a war it is," he said Antiquity, public monuments too to see confirmed

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F. a 922. P. X. f69.

TR. P. 9 COS. UL ARM. PARTH.

MAX. IMP. r.

This year, and indeed in the middle of winter by Galen Yerus the same litter with carried by his brother, and seized with apoplexy dies at Altinum Yenetorum died in the year 9» at the age of 39* yel 40 Dttbia about his true age at the expense of yide at Tillemontium in note 11. in Au "relium" in the midst of the dead in the spring of this year, not in December which most people have seen, I will prove in the doo- three tribes by the power of Yeri.

If listening to Qipitolinus, nor in- three good and no bad leaders tor, which it is evident that Titiisy did not tremble

nor that it abounded in yirtutus ^)^ without et ^mass in him the simplicity of Antoninus in of genius, and refers to purity ^). But little here, as I often repeat, with himself remembers this biographer, his license then the yita through adultery, gambling, etc. intemperance of messages, protracted nights in restaurants, led to laughter They persecuted men of the lowest filth so that the Caji of the Titians, Nero* nis, and the rival of Yitellius extirpated; At- that these things should not be grayer, and in reip. lost they would break the sky, only the brothers properly restrained. To the Parthian war from Aurelius sent ambassadors to discuss the matter He allowed himself to act on one Toluplata TacaTit In the winter of Laodicea, at Daphne's estate, the remaining part of Antioch, and returned to the city was much corrupted by the luxury of Syria tior* InTitus to the Marcomanic war He set out with his brother, and went to Breri's town he obtained a return respecting the license at the same time, but by an unexpected journey, I said the mouse, crushed by evil, died. The body dead in Hadrian's father's tomb tural was associated with the ashes of L. Aelius. These are from the Capitoline.

Yxor Lucilla 1 of whom below.

Name:

L. VERVS. AVG. ARM PARTH.

MAX. TR. P. VIII. head lam

guilty COS. IIL Rome galeia chest inaidcM He extends a branch of laurel to a true helmet, eipa» iudaio aaidttti ^ ipaa reiro a FicioHaco^ ronaiur AE. max. mode (Mus. M. Ducis.)

a) about Punic matters. c. 66 c. 1. e) Ibid. c. 3.

b) for Muracna c. 5- c) in Tib. chap. 6. d) in Vcro

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MAX. I took the laureate TR. P. VIII. IMP. V. COS. III. various i^fpiM in every metal, and form*

Wild Wild *

The deceased was called by his brother divutn^ He was honored and dedicated to many people to him with his breath, and to the members of the Antoninians, and with all the honors that are considered divine reports Capitolinus •), Consecration they also confirm the name.

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DIWS VERSE -Headless. Consecration. Eagle, ask, or not even in a team of elephants. AR. A£. I.

Let me tell you. M. Avrel. ANTONINVS. TR. P. 23 Chapter 4 of the Laureus. AE. I. (VaiU.)

Undoubted, or Vaillantius, or tj- might have been written TR P. 24 for 23 , for it is quite clear, True throughout the entire previous tribune of Aurelius that he still lived. Of course and when TR P. 23 Here the deity is proposed by Norisius

Numis the stranger.

Of the inscribed drachms : TflEP. NI- KHC. We did PnMAJilN in the woods M^sopotamiae nrbis uncertain.

Numi Bujus was exhausted, and the others did nothing at all offered, to whom the cause of pbilology immo- oar

THE NAMES OF FERL

To him the names of Z. Cejonii Com^ had been from time to time adopted by Hadrian

tato L. Cejonius Aelius Commodus we said pious Adopted by Anthony hil seems to have changed in appeals. for Aurelius took the name from his father was stic, not necessarily through adoption tion on him derived from Antoninus, Like his brother Marcus.

On the death of Antoninus Pius M. Aurelius in L. Vcru, in addition to the honor of Augustus also the name of Truth, which he had before it was earlier, that he had transferred, above in Aqre* We taught him by name. Or even the name of Jintonini can be disputed. Ad- Capitolinus affirms this: Ferum^ says <^), Aurelius called him, adding ANTO^ NlNl by name. Again in Vero ^) : L. Cejonius Aeliut Commodus Verun ANTO^ NINFSy who from Hadrian's will Ao* lius was called from Antoninus conjunC" tioneVerusy elANTO^INVS. Consonant reports Lampridius «): True, however, Com' he had the name of the way^ which was abolished ANTO NJNI is not a first name, but a first name it pits Marcus Antonius He called NVM. Then Spartianujs, qut reports that Severus gave this name to his son then, since already through four princes he would have run They were called the Antonines until now Pius, Marcus, and Commodus agreed; nothing if we add truth, there is no fourth we will be Indeed, eloquently also from the Capitoline He is numbered elsewhere among the eight Antonines 8). It may be added ez Capitolinus ^) , Aurelius the members of the Vero Antoninus He seems to have dedicated a rum from his name. I dare not conspire with these authors the truth of these testimonies is in doubt um Tocare, although it may seem strange, was a contemporary

a) in Aurel. c. 15 b) Epoch. Syromac. diss. IV. p. 304* c) in Aurel. c. 7 d) Chap. 1, from Diadumen. c. 6- 0 ^^ Ceta c. 2* g) in Macrinus c. 3. h) in Aurelius c. 15*

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Galen, whom we know above in M. Aurelius minibus laudayi, by no means Yero An- to give a name to Tony, in what place mntatis acts from both appeals. To HaeCy if this is truly honorable The name of Antoninus was brought to him, why that Yero in no one or god, or mar- more often, not infrequently, all his titles really boasting, is it associated? I might be robbed The god of An^astria Paphlagonia, in which if there is enough trust in the author sei Theupoli *), whose oracles are not infrequent they err, says OTHPOC. ANTriNl- NIGHT It could be added that the largest number of for- mae at Buonarroti ^) inscribed: AT. OTHPOC. ANTHNEINOC. Ve- It is not quite clear whether M. Au- relii, anL. Yeri The records are mixed public, at least certain, this name re- Let them be silent, Terimis rather, that Yero I have never been certain of any law extended, though by the adoption of Antoninus He had a right in this, and if it happened in that any roonumento established in the proTinces is read conjunctively, that reason then it can be Tideri, with which Aurelius also still Caesar in some gods, but of the pilgrim's comma, it is said but with no public authority, as above in the titles of M. Aurelius indicaTi* Capitoli- NuSy and Lampridius, who was given this they add the name confidently, perhaps that they wrote from the opinion of others; for the latter of these also mentions ^), whence also some and Severus, and Perti nacem, and lulianus of the ntonines They think they are honoring the miniduM. Yernm these no record yet known

He pronounces Antoninus. His Ela in the calculation of the Antonines that he had none, in this coin under We shall fear the name of ^ntonini.

Pope*

Although the pontificate was not conferred on Jerusalem The writers remember, however, to be doubted He cannot by any means be one of his kind After the adoption, many of them had been de- chalks» £t Tero Gruterus stone Tulga- Titus, in which is added to his other e^comies the title of Pontiff. d). Numihunchono- they always withhold the matter. But for that mirum, L. Yerum in binis Gruteri maiy morals, the most important «), with It is certain, however, that if at any time the two Augustus they held the government together, then one, and this elder of the bridge* the liver functioned as maxiroi, while Balbinus and Pnpienus would follow the custom to break Why did I take the marble Grams are either badly described, or dictated by rude geniuses, in which opinion I find that he was also Bimardus, who entered this Yeri pontificate the greatest abundantly and freely say he attacks ^.

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Father of the country*

In the gods of M. Aurelius to the same one the title was proved by Aurelius in the year Y. C* 980 y at the end of the sixth year 939 having adopted the name of his father's country. Why, during all that time when L. Yerunft he had a colleague, he loved him, he loved

*) P^S* 913. b) Osserr. that person p. 86. c) in Diadun. c. 6. d) Pag. 253. 2.

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which so much more congregates Yerus, qaod and his gods prove it excellently, qaorom no one ever y if only cerlae let it be of faith, this is the title of what I displayed to be felt about the marbles, whose not a few L. Yerum the father of the country creyeriinty in Aurelius in the same place said

JrmemacMj Partkicms max. 9 Medicine*

The genesis of these titles has already been expounded Aurelius under the same terms, who that is, through his brother Verum partoa he also accepted, but only the first two hil serious, ot already hinted then,

jirmemiacus^ This name was taken from Tero in the tribune IIL, and somewhat ma- Men we settled in Aorelip* Yeri's bic floated tribonatos com anno 917"

ParAicms max. Isiud qooqoe from Yero was anticipated, abundantly in Aurelio probayi born y^r ¥^ cocorrit com in the year Y. C qt&« Foisaa aotem Veraxa in capieado

with this previous title, except those which I said in Aurelius, the confirmer of the name bi* nis, one of which is Aureliicst, the other Yeri* Aurelius' numus on the obverse inscription of carries : CONG. AVG. III. TR POT 20 mP.III.COS.IlL, etnumusVeri: LIB. AVG. IIL TR. P. VL COS. IL By nome- the numus signs of both tribunes you are y C. 919, and by the number of gtarii, namely IIL, both of the same theme pore, but the name of Aurelius with the title of Paris He still abstains from the fire, however. already presents the deity of Yeri, without already ex- He was in the tribunate 5*

Doctor Of the name hoo, in onyx I met L. Yeri so much, but fre- quentiore in niarmoribos, yide, qoae I observed the same in Aurelio.

ImperatoK

Qooad vixic, the emperor y« is adcla- fathers, and always ona brother Aoro^ always because of the same chaos which you have already mentioned in Aovelius now to repeiere si^ervacaeoitt

PAtnrtL

Roman commas:

Of gold, and of silver •••••••••.• C.

Copper max. mod Blt.

Bronze L and 11. forms • • • • • C.

Bronze IIL forms ••••••••••• Ol

Comtmati peregrinus

Argentei orbiom Craecarum RR.

Bronze of various forms ..•••••.•..€«

Aenei coloniarum ••••*'.. C«

Alexandrini C.

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Annla Lacilla was born, 'nl her to- cat names Byzantium *), in the year Y. 900, or a little earlier, if only the same let's go, about what, but with a disguised noroine Capitolinus speaks *»), presumably Aure- The court held that the daughter had been adopted given by testament, which began in the year Y. C* qoo* Betrothed by the parents of M. Aure- ]io, and Faustina junior L* Yero, and ad Y* C. 917. sent her to her husband, to whom He was distinguished by a lemur in the Partfaic war, ])atre they will bring her down to Brundense, and Yero to receive her from Syria On the eve of Ephesus* Mortuo T. C. qaa to the husband, to whom he had given her the rumor spread that she had been divorced by her father Claudius Pompejanus, native of Antioch, those of the cavalry of the Lantus order, but of the meites and his honesty was conspicuous in a few ^). Cassia nae remains in Sjria accompanied by Ale* for the time being he left Xandria. After his father Brother Com- ways, to all the honor of Augusta to lock the bus; but when they are considered older to his wife Crispina, how ret, prepares the plots of his brother, which de- the goats were first driven out of the roof, for a little while after his death it was acquired about the year Y. C. ifib But the husband married in the country hall and he kept himself away from the suspicion of an ambush cion to even Se?eri iraperium duraTit* Yide Xiphilinus, Herodian, Capi- tolinmm

But M. Aarelius in his work, which thus

iavTOf struck out, and in what place from the exalted ad He discusses these things with famous funeral persons adds: /ikt%tKKaOvi/)^09, eira Atfx/XXtf.Eru- the rich ignored by the plaintiff's words as sup- plent: AwciXXa Ovvi^iti^ifjvsyxi^ itra Aii- xiXXa V^vifiy^vi^ Lucilla Ferum fled^ then and Luddla elaia €8i. Gatakerus in subject to this place known by the name of Lncilla this very daughter of Aurelius, L. Yeri Aug. He insists that his wife will understand This is so, since it is so about the father the daughter of the bitter one, the greatest of all faith is to be had, there were falsities everywhere which the later historians of Lacilla a Brother Commodus killed the memory they gave Which there is no way to prove let it be, that in this place Yerus is another, Lu- Cilla must be taken without a doubt. In the beginning He would have told M. Aurelius that he was his father Annius Ferum^ the mother of Domitia Cal- the town, which also had the name of Lucilla. Ho^ therefore there is no doubt about Mark in this matter warning of the common fate of men to have been understood But if anyone prefers It will be necessary to send out our Lucilla in the second member of this speech: iir^ AwiiKhu^ to be heard: i^s9sx^^^^^^9 dein^ Lucilla will be furious about him, which I certainly pray for the light could not deceive the man.

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Children, that she had children from Yero even though they do not openly sell this writers, is thrown from his mouth into written: FECVNDITAS, as you see, so out of the things which I have spoken immediately.

Fiiia inceriinominis ^ married to Claudius

a) Mouse Christina tab. 61 b) in Aurelio. c) Capitoline in Yero c. 10. d) Ca- petioles ia Aurelius c. 20. e) Capitoline. ia Aurelius c. l6\ f) L. YIII. }. 25*

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Pompejanus the same cnm mains on the other husband of the name, but who the diary, which Commodus had built, was cut down she is together with Lucilla, who urged the crime y. C. 936 •). There is no doubt that it is beautiful He conceived from L. Yero. For if the father Pompey's second husband was appointed, to this Lucilla before the year Y. C. 9s3y qni was Yeri's last, to marry He could not, for the said daughter had not been born he could before the year 924* - But it is const ex Xiphilinus ^) 936, we have said that the mother was nnptam had already been to another Pompeianus, therefore not quite suitable for marriage age, Aisi L. Yeri had a daughter mouse

Pompefanas was the son of Lucilla by her husband the other Pompeianus. Caracalla and He had consulted twice, and in all wars had presided over, which was the most serious at the time they want Killed by robbers there c).

Name:

A. Lycilla AYGYSTA in the woods all metals and forms.

B. Lycilla AYG. ANTONINL AYG. F. in numiM ommis metal^ and forms

100 LYCILLA AYG. M. ANTO- NINL AYG. F. in AE. h (Mus. Cae^O

lit. A.

FERTILITY lUulier sedene in eonsot'

It is inconvenient for one, or two, or three then AY AR. AE. I. II.

£x of these sums turned away for* he tried to bare Mediobarbus ^), numos with the epigraph LVCILLA AYGYSTA* Lucilla's father, whom L. Veri was to be given, of course, things like himself He thinks, "Fccunda never escapes" She was fertile, and there is no doubt from Yero, as I have shown a little above, and what it covers, his also from Pompeianus fecundity in money to be given, when even though she was married to a private person tea with all the honors of Augustus shall we sit empty? To the same Lucille par- tus are to be referred to the gods inscribed lYNO* NL LYCIN AE , in which he makes type the goddess seated, and the infant roan fas- holding them involutun Nothing stands in the way how much less all the gods named Lucille do not give inscriptions to this Yeri Lucilla let us pray, and be strong far away the antiquarian rum from the author 0&' with the sentence, who their aTiquo" they were admitted to the wife of L. Aeki Caesar, but to whom the name of Lucilla had been, no it is agreed by authority, that I am to the gods I warned Aelius Caesar.

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Ft lit. A, or B lYNONL LVCINAE Bea veiled standing d. extended flower, * swaddling baby clay, in others: a woman sitting d. I would become s. like a child AlR. AE. I. II. (Mus. Caes.)

These gods offer to the goddess of childbirth sidem, Greece Ilitkyiam^ Bomanis /0*

F ») Xiphilinus. h) from Dion. 572 § 4. c) Spartan. in Carac. d) Pag. i89

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the ninth Lttcina. Dionysias Halic. ^) so fjLif ro9 rvif EiX«/du/a^ ^¥ift>>) :

luno Lucina bring help, erva me^ ob^

sow^

From the point of view, he holds the child, and while d« displays the flower, because there is hope here tjmbolom, to hope well for the child's health or rather, he commands the earth and the earth she displays her own attribute from Ovid clearly indicated c) :

In the summer of the goddess Fioree, she rejoices in the flowers

herkis This goddess of tender eingiie flower co-

I put Oiciie: you will let us... Lucina^ sle'

disH mcijte:^ tU' voio parturientes ade^

A more learned explanation was avoided inaigais Ennius Yicecomes ^) , while ty- as he illustrates this yerbis Oridii, nar- rantis «) , an indignant moon, that Loyi Minerva would not be born without her mother, that he knew the manner in which he would go without his mother she would become Cupient Chloride porFe- he shot the flower, whose soil it touched grayida gave birth to Mars thrice of this ingenious sentence> SMbscri- I would drink, except for the address of IVNONI. DVCI NAE would command, this should be understood to be that woman who gives birth

He brings help, without any so much as said of Mars in this respect. Atqoi ri* even further down, this Lucina often occur in Augustan names rere, no other s^ne of chaos, quant that once upon a time he took help from his children, and that in the future I will grant him propitiation to desire to be The same thing is also in the gods of Mamaea and SaJoninaOf

As it went. B. Without epigraph. Figure mutieMs manstm He moves the water from the tree I was received by the sea in the vessel of the children right, the boy falls prone from the altar There are three Geniuses, one of the altars no, aiier suggested to him that he should go further into the forest a wall cut leaves from a tree pens AE. roax mode (Mus. de Camps.)

In these words Bal describes him dinus in his daughter-in-law's edition of Yaillantii ^ Yaillantius himself went with his men to the Campsians this coin to commentaries tjpo^infan- then he thinks that a survey will be presented, maU and he will mix, no doubt they never entered the mind. By the same name he mentions that cl. Ugly in Winckelmann sao Sl), excajus men- that woman will kill you tit, from which Capido yelut an apple from the ar- bore yi fell prone when pushed, adding that, to express a similar argument in pio- tura qaapiam yetere It comes as a surprise, raal* Cupid's head was shaken by a tree lead alone, than yolatu eyadere peri* tail I would not deny that he himself was Xy pnm siye per leperera, siyeparliam com- to recommend a position, yerom ido-

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a) L. IV. p. Z20 Clem. Tom. I. p. 5.

b) ia AadrU AcL III. himself l. o) Fast III. 253* d) Mus. Plo e) Fast V. 229 «eq. f) So III. p. 14j. g) Tom. II. page 58.

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so far I have been waiting for it that it was done, I doubt very much.

Ft. B.

Without epigraph. Enter the temple of Ve%tae idolutn, before foribun hinc virginen treM^ yonder as many others to the clean altar $ acres of land A£. max. mode

We gave a similar ayersa in nnmia Faastinae jonioris, but whose author We have said that the state of Ease Yalde was suspected also Tindicat's faith in the presence of God patrons with every exception major Yail- lantians, who feared him himself, and approached ba?it *)• Another like is praised in Cata* logo nmsei Theupolipag. 785. Yirginum The sacrificial sacrifice of the Testals, no doubt for the safety of the house of Augustus, this tjpo presented, all the reasons convince This is the first time that the round shape of the theme Ovid tells us that it was more

Par facie» iempU; no" runs in

that Corner; I was avenged by the rain

iAolus.

PaoIIbinirafnod curved ihobmyiKBt <^)« We have already seen his image in the temple He also conspires with the denarii of Cassius Longinus the number of Tirgioom sacrificers six; for oom were previously qoatoor, doas other He teaches that he added ^Tarqoinius Priscom Dionysius Halic ^). Idolum, which is inside the temple can be seen, the co>os of his name I would not say it easily. He errs without hesitation Yaillantios, whose name in the Campsians

He asserted that the statue of Vesta was ioTito of course OTidio ^) i

To be a long time aiult of the Feast of Simuiacraputavi I soon learned that there was no curved bottom.

And soon:

No effigy of Fesia^ nor ignisha^

bent

Palladius must be understood by this sign. qood was asserted to have been in the temple of Vesta tom, abundantly teach the Testimony niece Val tells Maximos ^), Metel- The burning temple of Vesta was raptured between them to serTasse the very fires of Palladium. Add Locanus s), Herodianus ^), et LiTius, who says: What about ancient Fe^ let it be with fire and a sign, that the pig of the empire Is the treasure of his temple held? Lucilla's warlike names they hold the coins of the Augustans from here learned, no note to the in- philology cremen addition* Why did you dismiss* let the mention of them be good to the antiquary* Rum Tenia will be allowed.

» Numis travel by commas.

Insignificant coins with eaplfe LtTcif* lae, and inscribed: TneP. NIKHC.Pfl- MAIIIN I produced Knter the names of MesopiT* Iamiae uncertaine urbii^ VoT. III. p. 52 cr.

The gods of the cities are very numerous of the free, but to carry the cotton wool.

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a) Mo9^ deCamps. p. 4 l. b) Fast 6. aBU c) t 296. d) Ant. Man L. lU. p. 199. •) Fajt. ¥L I9&. 0 L' I^ c. 4. §.4. g) IX« 993. b) ia Elagab. i) L. V. c 62-

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Roman commas:

Of gold and silver •••••« C.

Aenei max* mod* «••••••••«• RBB»

Aeneas I and II form •••••••••€•

Bronze 111. fonnae ••••••••••• 0«

The pilgrims

The weight of a coin drachma • « RRR^

Aeneas of the free cities • • « R.

Colonies • • • • RRR«

Alexandrini «••••• RR«

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Born in Lanuvius to the parents of M. Aure- lio Aug. , and Faustina the younger Aug. in the year y. C» 914« in which year the father was consul 3, was, and after the death of Antoninus Pius rium adiyit, the day before Kal Sept. , who and It was the birthday of Caligula, the mother at the same birth she gave birth to another son, whose name was Anio nini, and was entered by the events of Qemin, ted who died on the fourth day *)- However that Commodus was not born of Aure lio, but to a gladiator, like yeris Capitoline ^). Whatever it is, its Relius always recognized and loved, and He often offered thousands of cubits, and with his precepts exceedingly imbued and the fame of manners and letters visible, Terum useless, as it was clear, He gave the work to educate. Caesar alone with his brother Annius Yero was said on the 12th. October C.919 petitioner L. Yero, qup at the time both were Augustus of the Parthians he triumphed ^).

Before I describe the gods of Commodus, useless for the explanation of these ideas tur, to establish the chronological order, whereupon he assumed the positions of the Inter-Yalla PCR until he was adorned with the title of Augius*

A. Called CAESAR. on the 12th October 5.C. 919, P.X. 166, utcofiti- said to me

B. The so-called GERMANICVS. ibid. Her- Orphius cos. , that is: 15. October 5. C. 9a5 P. X. 172 ^).

C. Deep in all the coils sa» Cerdoial priest XIII. Kalenda Invic tasPisoneet lulianocos., ie: day XX. lanuarii V. C. 928. P. X. 175 •).

D. Frofecius in Germany XIX Cal. Aeias of the same cos. , that is: 19 Maji V. C^928 P*X^ 176 0-

E. He is wearing a toga of the nines

a) Lamprid in Gommodo. b) according to Aurd. c. 19. c) Lamprid. in Commodus c. 11. Ca- pitolin in Aurelia c» 12. d) Lamprid» c. 11. e) Lamprid. c. l. and 12.0 Lamprid. c I2t

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Iq]., at which time Avidiaa Cassius de- sciTit *), i.e.: VII. lullius V.C. 9«8. P. X. 175. , and indeed from his father from the city to the extreme limit ^). It is said both and PRINCE8. IWENTVTIS c), and before the time consul is designated ^).

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F. When the emperor approached the pair

UUutV^KaL ExMuperatories PolUone go* fum and Apro cos. «) yel, as LampridiuSy What does this matter, Altins said 0* ^^ even the Emperor was called K Kat. December day, Pollio gave him Apro cos. , id he will: 25 November V. C. 929. P. X* 176..

G« TriumphaTit with his father of Ger- manis and Sarmatis ez S. C. fi) and indeed X. Cal. the Amazons to the same consuls ^), that is: 23. December 5* C. .939. P.X. 176. Of these Capitolinus, but without ordering ne : Marcus in fifius Commodus ciio no^ men of Caesarea, and soon the priesthood Hmque aomen of the emperor^ n^c triumpM paricipation ^ and the consulship

H. Aurelius after the triumph of Com- odum in trib. It connects power, and He gives the people a home >)•

r. C. 9Z5. P. X. 112 COMMODUS CAESAR

COMMODV8. Slaughter GEBH.

ANTONINI AVG. Germ. Phil.

Bare head. M. ANTONINV8. AVG. TR. V. 26 Capture of M. Aurelius laureate. AE. maz* «od. (Mus. Albani.)

In this year the father's tribe fell. the power of 26* On the introduction of Germanic iiomine yide» which for the next year warning '

K C. 928. P. X. 115. CAESAR COMMODFS

A priest is recruited into all the churches. I see lit. C.

GOMMODVS 100 AES AVG. FIL"

Bare head. S. C Culier^ the head of a horse stripped of its fur apex^ capeduncula AE. II. (Mus. Caes.) ATorsa's type belongs to the priest* that, as observed in M. Aurelius to the year 5. C. 893, the Caesars decreed then it was always, now it's fresh Commo* it is clear

A year later CAESAR Germ.

Let us say a little above, (to letter B.) Fortunately, the title of the German was already there decreed in the year 5* C. 935, when of course and to his father Aurelius, but when neither Aureus lius that year before the present in no- He has recovered the former manner, as in his coins for this year there, nor the use of a son earlier than that. It does not prevent, Commodus in numo ad in the year 5* C. 925 he was praised by the Germani since yArie in front; for he is strong three times this very dfO/AccKiUf can be laughed at suspect, or a changed mother, give by which they are judged cLvroTrrau

a) Lamprid c. 2. b) Capitoline. in Aurel. c 22. c) Lamprid. c. 2. df Capitoline. in Anre]. c«22. e) Lamprid c.i2* f) Chap. 2. g) Lamprid c.2. h) in Aurelius.12 i) Gptitolin. in. Aurel c. 27.

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COMMODVS.CAES AVG. Phil.

Germ. Bare head M. ANTONINVS. AVG.GERM.TR. P. 29 Capui M. Aurelius laurealmm. AR» (Mu8. Caes.)

Aurelius trib. power 29* already a year it happened before.

Add to that. liberality AVG. Li6eralita9 skmt. AR. (Mus. Caes.)

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L. Avrel. COMFORT Slaughter

AVG. Phil. Germ. I got nu-

while" UBERALITY AVG. Cae^ar Medene fm 9uggestu sianie reiro^ aiia figure, addiai Liberalias^ figuraper gradut adncpndenie. Av. (Mu» Prince de Waldeck.) Addition S. C. AE. 50 n. (Mu8. Caes.)

Teste Lamprtdio *) CovMSkoA^ adhue in the pre-expat which he himself foretold in the dasiiica of TSrajani. Presently, therefore, very much about this time c^to 8unt signed ; not before, for, as We were afraid, only this year in his gods At least the German title is regulated by law. the matter of the writer ooepit not later, for JPaulo put the pretext to Tirilem he put on a gam, and then also a long one Capitotinus teaches that it was a congiarium. JFiito Commod acceraiio ad iimiiem to^ gave a manly gam; wherefore puld dii>itii In Aurelif the god of this year The era of two liberties VI. and VII. me they will die, as evidenced by the numbers j>\ from these things perhaps in favor of Commodus liberality is understood, and on both sides <|ue the historical Oracle is duly established;

and one another within a short time pus will be obtained, it will be done, ul, which in reality was twofold, henceforth for It will be considered simple, which is likely to happen from the ears of Aurelius in the year 5. C. 980 signs* tis, who again Liberaiiae Aug. VII. they preach, neglecting, of course, the seventh of the present year, but which were the same when the sixth was seen.

In the same year: CAESAR PRINCIPAL IVF COS. Germ. SARM

DES.

Aurelius Commodus from the city to K* he casts him down, and gives him a kirtle nonifl Inl. He says that the principal fuveuiuiis, and He designates him ahead of time. See all these above under lit. E. With his father to the East to fight the riots The remains of Cassian are advanced ^). Sar^ also the title of Maiici, which I will send this anno adsciYit pateri cam fiiio cQmmiftF>

A. I am comfortable. Slaughter AVG. FU* Germ. SARM Capuinudom, M AR. ei^AE. II.

B. L. AVREL. COMMOD. CAES AVG. Phil. Germ. SARM, Ca- puimwkm^ ift ABi ei AE. I. II.

n m. A.

And so on. OROa PRINaPI 4- the wind S. C. put on the crown. AE. IL (Miis. Caes.)

It refers to LamprSiiiDLS <^r Qmm^d^mn coopiaium inier ire990i^ primei^eBjmvmn ■

&^'i)i-€bmfn..e. 2. Comm. c. 2.

b) 10 Aitrelius c. th c) Lamprid^ io^ Comm. c & d^ in

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futis^ him sogum sumpHi^ even though it was a weed: they will no doubt lie alone in the desert they observed Casaubon long ago, and Salmasius we have already gone to Nero's Cae- taris* On this account the equestrian order with learn to connect with the prince of youth from those which are in volume yill. about the title Let us discuss the principle of youth

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Be of him A. piety AYG. Pontifical instruments. AR. A£. IL (Mus. Caes.)

Belongs to the priesthood of Com- of the manner of which we have spoken above.

The rest of the name: hilarity. relative 10 VI. CONSERVATORS, or: PRINC. IWENT" or HOPE PVBLICA" with you type*

I am also quoted in this paragraph they suffer the next year.

y. C. 929. P. X. 116. CAESAR First IVF COS. Germ. SARM

DBS

In the year inclining Rome to the East returned with his father the emperor on the 27th day of November. At the same time He triumphs over the Germans and the Sarmatians on the day 23 December, and a little after the tribu- He is given a powerful power. (Tide above lir. F. G* H.) What about the title of emperor here? indicated, and at the beginning of the tribulation of power to be felt, below in these titles will be lost

COMFORTABLE Slaughter AVG. FIU Germ. SARM Bare head

(roL II.)

DE. Germ. Gathering of Gertna's weapons nicorum* AV. AR. (Tail.)

COMFORT CAE8. AVG. F.

I took it naked. DE.GERMANI3. Tropojeumcumndaiden ii(n$sduobu» captives. AV. (VaiU.AE.IL Mouse You kill.)

The god is a witness of the triumph of this year. entente of the Germans. Similar too with the head of the father of Aurelius. to produce a hymn.

The rest of this year you are asking the gods the previous year.

F. C. 930. P. X. /77. Slaughter PRINCIPAL IFF. COS. SARM

Germ.

On the Kalends of Lanuarii the consul proceeded*

COMFORTABLE Slaughter AVG. son Germ. SARM COS. I got nu- while HAPPINESS Slaughter S. C. Ship with rowers AE. II. (Mus. Caes.)

See the coin explained in the coin Aurelia's synchronic happiness. AVG.

The same reverse. THE PRINCIPAL IV. S. C- Two the right hand joined the military sign of the proa na- they hold the embedded force, AE. II. (Mus. Caes.)

It begins in the gods of this year

IMP. Slaughter TR. P. COS. Germ.

SARM

About this time he married Crispina leads

Of the power of the tribune of Commodus, which, at the beginning, as well as

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raliontJ mere esl enigma, vicle, qoac

once in a treatise on the power of the tribunal

We will have plenty of food. Illud to explain

care until now, the reason that would make it salty

not be found, sent in the meantime to conlro-

Thirdly, we propose those tacitly, which

they enunciate to me, and to whom every year

each t^ntum trib. poieelaies dempto

present', and then

rent, tiluli« onnaliiim only sirapli-

cem, and which only in the an-

"orum numis is read, irib. Poieslalem

foreman About the name of the emperor

which name should be used this year

cooked see below at Jiun^; lily

IMP. Slaughter L. AVREL.COM

MODVS. Germ. SARM Ca-

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put laureate*

TR. POT COS. Vtergue itnperator in

ifuadrigi^ triumphalibm, the thousand precedes

with the flag of the Ficiorian flag

trophy AE. max. mode (Mus. Pisani,

M. Ducis, Buonarroli Osscr. that person.)

Indicalur threefold from each im-

in the preceding year, the pcarator of the Germans

act

m % *

The same reverse. TR- POT. COS^ Fictional degree. AR. (Mus. Caes.)

I did not recognize these gods tus alier (Mediobarbum and catalogs I pass over uncertain information), which carecon- a simple trib

Conjugates power

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same reverse* CRISPIN AVG. Crispina's head. Av. (Mus. once of France.)

Eodew year:

IMP. CARS TM P. //. Ca& CESM

SARM

IMP. Slaughter Avrel. like DVS Germ. SARM Caputiath liability

TR. P. II. COS. S. C. Commodus in ten

tis team d, scepter with eagle, AE. I.

(Mus. Caes. el reg. Christinae.)

Also here indicates the process of Commodity

8th of the present year.

* • •

The same reverse. DE. Germ. uialiis: DE SARM.TR.P, II. COS. Two S. C. Tropaeum for those present bus captives AE. I. (Mu«. Caes.)

the same tjpi are in the contemporaries of Aurelius god

the same reverse liberality AVG. TR. P. II. COS. S. C. rterque emperor in his suggestion a tooth standing by LiberUtate^ and another figure^ mercy by ascending degrees. A£. I. (Mus. Caes.)

In the numo Aurclius sjnchrono preach- there is the same liberality, but in the number 7* I have been given the opportunity of this lodging fa- cile I gather from Chapter One narrating *), ab Aurelius gave a congium to the people, to which at the time Conunodus with Crispina co- He said that this was the year of the fire. and about that time they will teach

There are also silver gods with et- demantic, and inscribed: TR POT IL COS. and I met the types.

a) in Aurel. c. 27-

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In the same year:

Jr. m. p. ii. cos. /^ /*. GEn».

SARM

lorelias Coinmo<1am AVGVSTVM, who calls the FATHER OF THE COUNTRY and the emperor from the yictorii ti^oium with t^ eoiBmunicats. Everything from the gods.

IMP L. AVREL COMFORT

AVG. Germ. SARM Caputlau

liability DE. Germ. f>el: DE. German so called cliis: DE. SARM TR. P. 11. COS. PP 8. C. Congeries annorumy or: trophy two captives, A £* I. IL (Mus. Cacs.)

The same reverse. TR. P. IL COS. P. P. Woman standing d. Pateramy s. flag AR. (Mus. Caes.)

IMP.COMMODVS AVG. Germ.

SARM CRISPIN AVG. Heads

two respect each other,

guilt, and Crispina. VOTE PVBLIC comfortable civilian and standing laureate joins the right hand with standing by Crispitfa, standing by in both with which Concord AE. max. mode (Mus. vegetable Gall. tab. 16 , Ae Camps.)

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Eloquitnr numus Yota publicly con» taken, with Commodus, and Crispina ma- trtmoni were joined by a link, qood done around that time"

In the same year: A.

IMP begins. no.

B. L. AVREL COMFORT AVG. GERM.SARM. Laureate head. C ITNONLSISPITAE TR. P. IL IMP, IL

COS. P. P« luno Sispita gradiens , proi pedtbus snake AR. AE I. (Mus. Cdes.) These are the famous goddesses of the age of Nunuvina worship, which is already a monetary honor to* Antofinus Pius did, as was said in hoe to the year 5. C 893 , and now Commo- dus, presumably since both are in mu^r I take LanoTio, his goddess's home of m^- you are*

The same reverse. TR. II. IMP. II. COS. P. P. S. C. in various tgps. AK 5 IL

F. c. 93 f. p. X. ns.

TR. P. III. COS. DES. II. P. P. QERM. S^RM. IMP. II.

On the 5th of August at war with Germany when he is thrown out with his father. (Lamprid. in Comm. c. la.)

L. Avrel. COMFORT A VG. Germ. SARM TR. P. IIL Ca- put laureate VOTE PVBLIC IMP. II. COS. P.V. Carrying out the sacrifice of many figures place the temple AE. max. mode (Mus. M. Leader.)

I was wrong in a museum like this Camps Vaillanlius for TR. P. IIL lc- git BRIT., which is contrary to history.

Germ is about to expire. S^RM.

L. COMMODVS AVt;. Head laureate, in j4R L. AVRfeL. COMFORT AVG. Laureate head^ in AR. AE. II. L. Avrel. COMFORT AVG. TR. P. III. Laureate head in Oh 3

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j4E. /. , eiiam radiaium tn AE.

ft. lU.A. wlB. GOS.P.P* various types. AB (Mus. Caes.) These gods are at least three in the present year to drink for in the previous year it was still used Germanic and Sarmatian titles COS was already hot. II. "

Ft. B. TR. P. 111. IMP. H. COS. P. P. tsn^is various AR. AC 11

Ft lit. C. VOTE PVBLIC IMP. II. COS. P. pi S. C^ Emperor veiled standing d. bowl If the victim sacrifices the scepter to the tripod" a river near a bull striking AE. I. (Mua. You kill.)

F. C. 932. P. X. il9.

TH. p. if cosr n. From p. mp. u.

He is interested in the German war with his father. See the annals of M. Aurelius.

A. L. A VREL. COMFORT AVG. TR. P. IIIL Head of a bull^ in AE. L, radiated in AE. II.

B. L. AVREL. COMFORT AVG. Laureate head^ in AF. and AB

" Ft lit. A. IMP. U. COS. U. P. P. S. C. types va- riis, yeU VOTA PVBLIC IMP. 11. COS. II. P. P. etc* tjpis ay^rsae jam known

In the same year: IMP. III

^ '£x rilctoria de Germams the emperor

He muUiplicates the title with his father. See an Nales H. Aurelius.

L. AVREL. COMMODV8. AVG.

Germ. SARM TR. P. III. Ca-

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pitt laureate IMP. in COS. II. PP I mean fiction dry AE. maz» mod. (Mus, Albani.)

Abandoned Germanic Sarpuic titles in this deity they are reborn, perhaps the last.

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Ft lit. A. tmp III. COS. 11. P. P. 8. C. ttfpis va- to you A^. 1. II.

Ft lit. B. TR. P. III. IMP. m. COS. II. P. P. t jpis of Victory^ of Salvation^ of Fortune, etc. AB

F. C. S33. P. X. 180 TB P. F. COS. HE DES III.^ P.M.

IMP. III.

L. Fulvius Bruitio Presente ILSex. Quin-

tiiio Condiano cos.

On the death of his father on the 16th of March He alone holds the charge. Left, not finished bel- 109 and made peace with the barbarians, and having received this, as it seems, from cansa^tm- executor IF title reyertitnr, and three-

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A. L. AVREL COMMODVS. AVG.

TR. P. V. Laureate head of AE.

L , also radiated in AE. IL S. L. AVREL. COMFORT A VG.

Laureate head^ in AF. AM.

AE. IL

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Ft lit. A. 18 VICTORY yelt VIRTVS AVG. «tc. adcKte always; IMP. III. COS. IL P. P. S. C. in AE. l. II.

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Tia p. V. iMP. in cos. il p- p- »a-

riiM typiM» AR. AE.. II.

In the same year:

iMP. go

lit. A. ADVENTS AVG. IMP. II. COS. II. P. P. S. C. Emperor Knight of the Peacemaker kahitu AE. L (Mus. Caes.)

Returning to Rome this year This dnmi is fully verified. He was once already in the city on the 22nd. October, it is certain from Lampridius, who tells •) : Commqdum given in perpetuity yours from the army and the senate right at home Por iatina Commodiana to be preserved XI. Cal. Romanas Present again cos. , who It is the 24th October of the present year. Like the golden gods, and the silver Vaillanlius says these, but inscribed only: ADVENTS AVG. , none that or trib. power, or consulship made mention of ^). In addition to this coin and in the Caesarean museum another bronze I. form with the same tribunate V." and in- written on the reverse: FORT. RED. , who so it belongs to the same argument.

• * * n lit. B.

TR. P. V. IMP. III. COS. IL P. P. var typed AR.

* * *

Paul after the abolition of L. AVRELII no- minibus open to M. ANTONINI he knows See below in these comments. They are therefore the deinceptt of the inscribed god:

M. COMMODVS ANT0N1NV8.

AVG. Laureate head. tlR. AVG. TR. P. V. IMP. II. COS. li. P. P. Liberaiitas standing. AR. (Mus. You kill.)

The same reverse. liberality AVG. TR. P. V. IMP. IIIL COS. IL P. P. S. C. Emperor se^ a tooth on the platform of exulting Liberality etc. AE. I. (Mus. Caes.)

These show the god's house popa* represented under the auspices of the government. Commodus was liberal, and often 100 drachmas for the people God of the madmen reports that he gave it to man his works he himself ^). But too much it seems to emphasize the prodigality of Lam- before, when he had given him his lodgings to the people, to the sioguls 725 denarii. tell(**) , except perhaps through carelessness let it be denarii for the more probable sestertii even though the same is attested elsewhere «) lom by the forces of the Boman empire

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The same reverse. TR. P. V. IMP. III. COS. IL P. P. »a- typed AR. AE. I.

r. C. 934. P. X. 181.

TB^ p. riJ cos. III. p. p. iMP. go

Conveniently Aug. III. L. Antistio Burro cos.

Nothing memorable for this year betrayed

A. M. COMMODVS. ANTONINVS. AVG. Caputtaureatum Ar. AB AE. I. also radiated in AE. 11.

a) in Corora. c. 12. b) Num. present T. H. p. 182. c) L. LXXIL % l6. d) if

Conun. c» l6. «) in Comm. c. 3.

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n iii.A. MB. AVG. III. TR. P. VI. IMP. III. COS. 111. P. P. LiberaiitaB Biafu. AR. In alirs: Emperor Bedens in Buggesius eic. AE. I. (Mus. Caes.)

I will go to Commodus's house they begin by numbers, and in fact con- giart of the present year vo is after the first year Y. C. 928, a1- terum of the year 9^0, terlium of the year 933, de which act in their places. The cause of this lies in liberality, even though they are affordable pro- I will tell you the titles with which he will wear his own.

Vi iii. B. TR. P. VI. IMP. III. cos. m. P. P. of various types. AR. AE, II.

He went. A. VOTE DECADES SVSC TR. P. VI. IMP. IIIl. COS. III. P. P. S. C. Impera- tor veiatuB standing d. a bowl on a tripod he sacrifices AE. II. (Mus. Caes.)

All are renewed in this god, which He took over the loan. Theirs again to the year 5. C. 9^7 become men tion, we will discuss below. Of the yaria hao We will discuss the law of all mulla in the trac- unique ankle

V. C. 935. P. X ^82. Those. P. FiL COS. IIL DBS IF. P. P.

IMP. IF. F. C. Petronius Mamertino^ Com. Rufus cos»

Emperor V* Commodus part of the year at the back, the witnesses of the gods which from Tictoria, undiscovered 5 nam

They mention many wars through ambassadors historians have neglected the concept of lemper.

A. M. COMMODVS. ANTONINVS. AVG. A gilded head over all

-meiaiio and form^ in AB. 11. also radiated.

B. M. ANTONINVS. COMFORT AVG. as in the former.

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BOOK AVG. V. TR. P. VII. IMP. III. COS. III. P. P. Liberaiitas standing. AR. (Mus. Caes.) In another quaiuorfigura. Av. (VaUI.)

Ft. A. TR. P. VII. IMP. III. (iVi later sign IMP. V.) COS. IIL P. P. typis vaHis, and met AR. AE. 5 IL

F. C. 936. P. X. i83.

TR. P. SON COS. IIIL P. P. IMP. F.

FL

Conveniently Aug. IF. C. Aufidius Fictorino 11.

Emperor VL said this passing year there Commodus, from which Tictoria, uncertain then Tiilemius thinks that it is British. GraTem's conspiracy wiped out the Commo- dus, the author of which was Lucilla's sister, but which death is the plan of death. (See (Snpra in Lucilla.)

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TB, P. TIII. IMP, V. {in wius aigna-

tis: IMP. VI.) GOS. III. P. P. type

various AR. AE. 52 n lii, B.

YOU P. YIII. IMP. V. COS. III. P. P.

The emperor's knight strikes the lion with a spear. AE.

maz. mode (Mqs. Caes. and M. Ducis.) Ft lit. 4.

MVNIFICENCE AVG. TR. P. VIII.

IMP. 6. COS. III. P. P. Elephaslori age AE. II. (Mus. Caes.)

Aversa nuroi II. studies, and the characteristics of Com- in a way that graphically affects him Ilerodianus, they themselves shot him with the art of shooting He had overcome Parlhos, and a hundred lions with one on the day the beech trees stopped. But of these im- other merits of the executor. Afterward indicates the male games published by him. Of the election fante lojricato, and the inscription MVNI- Performance at the games Nente Yides, which we said in Antoninus Pio to the year 5. C. 902

Ft lit. A. YEAR. AVG. or: PROV. AVG. or: SAFE AVG. always adding TR P. VHL IMP. 6. COS. III. P. p. S. C. with proper types. AE. I.

As lit. A. I went B. TR. P. VIII. IMP. 6. COS. III. P. p. typically of various kinds^ in every metal, and form

lit. c.

I. O. M. A head of ivy, and a corym twice crowned AE. max. mode (Mns. reg. Gaul.)

^ Unusual in the love of the worship of the head, which It could be considered an Indian bacchus, but yet- ret epigraph \ovis Optimi ^laximi.

F. C. 937. P. X. f84.

TH. P. 9 COS. IV. P. P. Pirs.

IMP. 6.

POIST begins. MAX.

L. Eggio Marullo^ Cu. Ptipirius Aelianus

cos.

PIVS begins. - Of course, as Lampridius tells us): Among these things Commodus himself rode with the senate that is, when the consul of adulterous mayors gnassetj was called PIVS.

A. M. COMMODVS. ANTONINVS. AVG. PIVS Head worship as usual no metal

B. M. COMMODVS. ANTON AVG. PIVS Laureate head^ in AR.

C. tt. Avrel. COMFORT AN- TONINVS. AVG. PIVS Head laureateum^ in AE. max* mod. (Reg. Gall.)

The war is raging with this storm After the Britons had crossed the wall, Duke Vulpius Marcellus, a man of military art, and to the most learned man of discipline ^). Exeius Commodus won the title for the first time 7% of the rater is soon born to the British.

A. m. commodvs. antoninvs

AVG.PFVS. CapuicutiusoUto.in coins of metal and form. B. M. COMMOD VS. ANTON AVG. PIVS as in the former.

C. m. Avrel. commodvs. an-

T0NINV&. AVG. PIVS Cdput gilded in AE. max. mode

m) Chap. 8. b) God L. 72 $. 8.

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P. IL TR. P. VIllI. IMP. 6. C08. III. P. P. typed vaHtMj and met. AR. AE. I.H.

The most important part of dating this year is yes more inscribed, yet to those who even if you know the subject, you type. The rest nurai: ANN. AVG. or: VOTA PV- RLICA etc. but it must still be remembered who-:

Fi iii. r. THE TIME HAPPINESS - - - COS. III. P. P, Muiier Bcdens dexiera porrecia tpicas^ before that four boys were naked fructose tree decirpunty and in adstitu- then they launch the vessel. AE.max.mod. (Mos. Com. of Vitzai.)

Extinguished from the rest of the time known I have sat here for a long time until now in it cannot be closed. There is a similar nume between god of the greatest form of the king of the Gauls, but in which the notes are all chronological there is no doubt that the injuries of the age are lacking. Ty- draining the pus on its own Four girls tanbuam four ca^tfi, as many years they show pores, as is evident from nnumo similarly inscribed, which we will give ad year 5. C. (}41 •

On the same day: tMP. VII.

As it went. A. Radiate head. P. M. TR. P. VIII. IMP. VILCOS. IIIL P.P.S. C. The man sat down. AE. 11. Other: Genius sacrifices standing naked. AR. (Mus. You kill.)

Ft. A. VOTE SVSCEP DECADES P. M. TR. P. VIIIL IMP. VII COS. IIIL P. P. S. C. Emperor Veiatus standing at the tripod he sacrifices AE. L (Mus. Caes.)

Ft. B.

VOTE 8VSC. Dec. reJiqua^ as

preceding AR. (Mus. Caes.)

En to thee, and to the next two All the ten years undertaken, of which the the mountain as early as the year 5. C. 934* we went We will discuss these further in a treatise on the gods of the gods.

In the same year: BHIT begins.

A. M. COMM. ANTON AVG. PIVS BRIT The head of the jury $n AR.

B. COMM. ANT AVG. P. Brit. Laureate head, in AH.

C. M. COMMODVS. ANTON AVG. PIVS BRIT Headache AE. I. radiated in AE. II.

D. M. COMMODVS. ANTONINVS. AVG.PIVS.BRIT Capuiiaurea' then in AE. max. mode

Ft. A. P. M. TR. P. VIII. IMP. VII. COS. III. P. P. in various types. AR.

Ft. C. VOTE SVSCEP TEN etc. how about just above the graph. AE. I. (Mus. You kill.)

Ft. Mr. VOTE PVBLIC The emperor before tenh he sacrifices the pious to the many figures standing by. AE. max. mode (Mus. Albani.)

F. C 938. e. X. t85.

TH. P. X. COS. IF. DES.F. P. M. P.P-

PIFS BRIT IMP. FU

MatemOy Bradua cos.

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there ^). tHlIemonltum, who ctaedem Per- in the next year it differs, below. sttb titttlo FeUx reftttatum Tide.

A. COMM. ANT AVG. P. BniT. C(^t taureatum in AK AH.

B. M. COMMODVS. ANTON AVG. PIV8. BRIT Laureate head in AK. max. mode AE* L also radiatwn in AB. II.

C. M. COWM. ANTON AVG. PIV8. BRIT Laureate head in AB. li.

D. M. COMMODVS. AV& PIVS. BRIT Ci^t laureateum in AB. max. mode (Vail.)

Ft lit. A BRITAIN. P. M. TH: P. X. IMP. Vn. COS VII. P. P. Mueller insidensru- pi^ d. aquiliii legionariam^ s. based on Efypeo, to whom S. P. Q. R. was inscribed, ha- so it holds. A£* max. mode (Vaill. Mus. M. Ducis.)

We also wear similar clothes in mo- granddaughter of Antoninus to the year 5* C. 893. £jus in the currency of Commodus bait the war in Bac Island this very time pore gesture, from which the Britons themselves He bought the name of the operator. • e

rt lit: B.

ITALY P. M. TR. P. X. IMP. VII. COS. III. P. P. S. C. Mttlier group^ in- fearing the d^ of the community a spear A£. I. (Mus. Caes.)

Flit. A. P. M. TR. P. X. IMP. VII. COS. III. P. P. in various types. Av. AR. A£. II.

Ft lit. B.

p. M. TR. p. X. iMP. vn. COS. III.

P. P. half-naked wolf standing d. circle

from which three (in others four^ in oHis five) virgins brought forth the holy staff; on the opposite side stands a boy $ outstretched branch or showing Hprem^ or comucopiae. A£. max. mode (Vaill. in num. max.mod* Mouse, right. Cbristinae ^ and Caesareus, M^ Dncis, Albani.)

The explanation of this tjpi would be uncertain unless he was aided by the acquaintance of Hadrian, in whose obverse: SA£C AVR. Fir seed dus standing d* the circle coincides^ quo to' surrounds you therefore and type of god you feel who is the ivy, except what you seal is richer, the century atfr^ia iiitel- it is bound, such as if faith in Commodus himself this commanding' Tere came into being. , for he tjeste Lampridius ^) SABCFLFM, AFt HEFM, COMMODIANFM name as- simulating a pill, he proposed, from which ma' He made a shortage. More just you styraonium of Dion he saw Commodus, as an old man, He would hold the capital and be called SABCFLf^lHf AFBBFM^ and write that in all the letters even though Dionysius was judged by the same

a) Dio^ Lamprid. Herodian b) Lamprid c. 8> c) Cap. i^. {Fol. Phil)

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quQd elsewhere apcril •) , a bag from a noble hoo melallo appeal Aui^lio flows, under his son Convenient to iron, and rust in- happy redaction This, then, is the name of God Flattery conceived the type, which she pa^rturiYit . I will add another to this, and pa^ a racial epigraph on the Nicaean gods of his, the Cians, and the Cap- padpciae: KOMOAOT BACIAeTON- TOC O. KOCMOa «TTTXei: Com- just rule the world and be happy. Copper even the statue of Alexander Severus in his the purpose of the yagia of the gods, and inscribed thereon; THE TIME HAPPINESS

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As lit. C. FIRST. DECADES P.M.TR. P.X. IMP. VII. COS. III. P. P. S. C. within the coro- for AE. II. (Mouse, Cat.)

Be of him B. VOTE SVSCEP TEN P. M. TR. P. X. IMP. VII. COS. III. P. P. S. C. Emperor Veiaius sacrificed to Iripodes* AE. I. (Mus. Caes.)

All these ten years will be dealt with in special dissertation

• ♦ » " Vi Ki. B. YlCr. BRIT P. M. TR. P. X. IMP.

VH* COS. im. P^ P. S. C. ricioria ar- misinsidensd.paimamj s.d^peum.AE.L (Mouse* Cat^)

_ In the same year: FELIX

A. M. COMM. ANT FEL. AVG. P. BRIT. Capuilaureaiumin..

B. M. COMM. ANT AVG. P. Brit. FEII. I took the laurel in AR.

C. M, COMM. ANT P, FEL. AVG. BRIT I received the award in AR*

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Fi iii. C. SAEC FEL. P. M. TR. P.X. IMP. VIL COS, III. P. P. yicioria «. with the foot of the helmet resting on the palm tree inscribed YOia ' DECENNAAJia AR. (Mus. You kill.)

The rest: CONC. A thousand yel: FEL. AVG. to him always adding: P. M. TR P. X. IMP. VIL COS. IIIL P. P.

F. C. 939. P. X. 486.

TR. P. 40 CO^. K P. M. P. P. PirS.

FEL. BRIT IMP. FIL FliL

Conveniently Aug. F. Glabrione IL cos.

Emperor VIII this year it is cried, uncertain, what a victory.

A.

B. C.

Mr.

M. COMMODVS ANT P. FELIX AVG. BRIT Laureate head inAE.

In some of these below the head of the leguniur of the third P. D., which I have explained

fra in numo: P. D. S. P. Q. R.

M. COMM. ANT FEL. AVG. P. Brit. I took the laurel in AR.

M. COMMODVS ANT HAPPY AVG. P. BRIT* Capui laureaium ia AE. L

In some places below the head I read P. D.

M. COMM. J»lNT. P. FEL. AVG. BRIT. I received the laurel in AF. eiAR.

a) L. LXXL f. 36.

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E. M. COMM. ANT R FELIX AVC BRIT A bladed head, velraiHattim in AE. 11.

F. M. COMMODVS. ANTQNINVS PIVS FIRE AVG» BRIT. C^^t lau- . liability in AE. max^ mo4* (Mus. Medic.)

G. M. COMM. ANT AVG. P. BRIT» FEL. veli P. FEL BRIT head wash reatum in Quinarie* (Mm^ Caes.)

AfUiea uncertain. Fortunae. DVCI C. V. P. P. /i»»- the bearer to the sacrificial altar (uua. AE. max* mod. (Mus. reg. GalL)

We have already seen the fortune leader in motion father's granddaughter to the year 5* C. 929*

Ft lit. D. or A F0R1TNAE.MANENTL COS. V.P.P. Uutier zedent d, equum capistraretinei^ «. community AR. AE. L (Mus. Caes.)

Forlana Manentis with the nickname 'cul' so the Gods of Commodus will teach us he has many other surviving Roman the writers mention Ho- reason to praise Fortune early sc. month biU opposite *)• But Tcro why Fortune in this name he should keep the horse, the reason of Ti- it is given to obscurity, perhaps because Fortune Qoae Dwelling in this god is called be the same as Fortune Equestrt^ with the help of FulTius Flaccus The cavalry banished the Celtibers, the house TOTit ^), and whose temple stood at Tacitus reports Amius ^). to be observed tjpom to be almost similar to An- tiocbiae to Hippus the Decapioleos, but in Fortunate is the woman with whom he is in common and the horse galloped to the mountain, on whom the orbs sit, and whose name is Ittto^ It was yours.

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rt tit. A. THURSDAY P. M. TH. P. XI. IMP. wine COS. V.P. PS C. sitting wolfishly d. branch, «. a spear AE. L (Mass. Caes.) EXSVPER truncate Tocem. fill in I will give EXVEVER to the most ancient, he teaches inslgne marble, which "said Sponius ^), in which reads: I. O. M. SVMMO EXSV- Very knowledgeable. More about this lot Predicates the marble of Vienna of the jar made by Scipio Maffeius ^) :

SVMMO

- - VERY MUCH

DIVINARVM., HV

MANARVMQVE

RERVM to the director

FATORVMQVE. AR

BITRO - -

Callimachus here lupiter dicitnr K^ouivig nctvvTre^arog ^). The Commons Exupe" ratorii^ uTre^ut^ovTQg ^ added the title he says, as if all mortals he would sleep in matters, nt explains Dio S), And a month of this name has arrived. as we will tell below. Excavator EVERYTHING Gentivm should also be said in named Constantinos M.

a) I^. III. ode 29 e) Mouse. Veron p. 248"

b) LiTius L. XL. 40. c) Annal. III. 71. d) Miscellaneous. p. 71, 72 £) Hyinn. ia Jot. t. ^L g) L. LXXIL § 15.

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Ancient varia^ BOOK Tcl: LIBERAL AVG. 6. PM TR. P. XI. IMP. VII. COS. V. P. P. ijidemlitas stan9^ 9el: iTnperaidr sedem

in the subject, etc. AR. AE. I. II.

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lit. A. Nobility AVG. P. M. TR. P. XI. IMP.yin COS. V- P. P. S. C. MuUer stan9 d, spear^ s. the kitchen which d^ he holds a bowl and a spear. AR. AE. I.

* (Mus. Caes.)

Sn lioc nurao flaunts its mobility Convenient. And as a true witness of Herodias

He was dear to the Romans in the beginning, because three successively it would happen to the poorer workers, and patrician family for the race was opened to him by the chiefs themselves and the mother of Famti was of the order of swimmers na, Augusta herself^ the daughter of Anthony Pius^ Hadriani's mother's niece ^ ge- his son to Trajan himself, his great-grandfather was reporting Why also in marble? at Gruterum '») with the rest of his titles in at the end is added: To the most noble prince. Aver- we shall also see the same the following year.

Ojselius published a coin with the same epigraph, but in the type of Anubis standing, d. sistrum, s. holding a spear c^. single Vaillan does not remember the heart of this god ^us, and is missing in the Caesarean museum at- que ii, qni ^us meminere, Medlobar- bum, I think, and Gessner, another ab Objection not to bring the witness forward in the middle "More precisely. I, who Ojselian omnispect I'm always asper-

tiatus 1 my god is a liar If I had not done so, I would have cried out for this By the type of cloud I pressed fashioned by the gods of Egypt, to regain his ability so much <>). Both Tir pmeclarus in the Roman museums like Oyseliano's mum, indeed he saw somewhere, I don't know*

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* Ft lit. D. or E. EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT. C. V. P. P. Juppi- thrice standing d.bolmeu^ s. spear^ in no^- with no feet for an eagle. AR. AE. II. (Mus. Caes.)

Remembering the insolent epigraphs and conceived in the rite of claination. It exists Spanhemius «) , Commodus in this nu- to be proposed in the rite of molor, and to him line also the names of the Most Excellent Scd does not appear to be sufficient for this purpose. Both of them, indeed, were given to Commodus marble Masonry ^, but before this also to several other Augustus, whom ex Marinius g) thinks of the stones.

6 nt. B.

P. D. S. P. Q. R. Joy. C.V.

within laureate, outside guage S. C. AE. 11.

(Mus. Caes.)

M. COMMODVS Ant. P. FE- 50 AVG. BRIT head laurel below that P. D.

S. P. Q. R. Joy. C. V. enter

lauream^ outside which S. C. AF.. I. (Mus.

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I have already received a copy of the previous editions

it exists from Mediobarbus, Patino, and in

the museum of Theupoli, but the falsity of all these

a). in Gommoda from the Torah 11. p. 501

b) P«|[. »62. 0 Page; 340

4. c) Tab. 71 no. 7- g) Bro. Arv. p. 5^.

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lUIecUo, when the first in a T^m epigra^ they would publish the letters es&e P. P«, and to them they would consider the Pa$r$m of Pairia to be indi^ dear The catalog of the museum with this terror I had written to Caesar, in a similar spirit, who then find, easily who ti, the second element is certain to be D^ I sinned so impiously, that I would think that the letter D is in the name of a god in that place somewhat withdrawn, so that for credit to other P. P. read D« D. cen- to be A more serious and healthy museum came, who, as I have described above, the undoubted letters P. D. stood, from which come to the commandment and yeteran of them and my rookie mistake was successful* not long after that, which al- The third time I reviewed this place, in the treasure He reached Caesarea, which was opposite to the former it is very similar to every peak, except qaod in this the letters P. D. are omitted. But when the part of his god also I would have looked more closely, I saw, in that these same letters were crossed, and just at a distance from the rest of the inscription inside the isolated ayulsas in It is convenient to get a head station. She the thing was seen because of the insolence of course, for the lonely Hteras in the front part Caesar's coins in the previous three centuries they hardly have a place for the horses, he instigated, as You care for all the gods according to Commodus I would call the exam. £x where to inquire I took the fruit from his study, and he passed by enm, whom I have just quoted, three others re- I would perish in the same letter below put instead onnstos, all of the first form, at- that all of the present year, of which one inscribed : FID. EXERCISE another 18 EXPERIENCE third: JIOPILITAS. AVG. Baldinus added a fourth to V^Ulan-

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wine: PROVID AVG. Ai.apjr^ Mrum

the meaning of letters is expediated, qju^^ Indeed, Buonarptus was doing something else more than he did. (OsserT. istor. page 394.)

I'm sure you'll take them to the party itself the address does not belong* let us see that the sarioi cym was illustrious in others. Certain it is, that it is isolated among others have they been placed, by themselves, nullp pum re? liquid epigraph link, to make sense.. At this point, I call for a numus i^nno to be elicited immediately described above, in cu- The right side is read: FIRST. DECENN^ P. M. TR. P. eic. 'and these.c quoqit^ the epigraph within the laurel is inscribed with nuU lo another place, as in the gods present there There are therefore the letters P, D. plenipris hnjus epigrams a^;faia

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Fi iii. D. him A Pity SENATE C. V. P. P.. /m- peraior yogaius sians poiumen when ad" sianie senaiore yogaio s, hasiam yetienie I had left the union. AR. AE. I.

See what is here related to marriage the following year's address: PAJER.SE- JNATVS. they will be told

Vi Ui A. Providence AVG..P. M. TR. P. XI. IMP. Vm. COS. V. P. P. Navis ejppansis re- Us.AV^.L (Vaill.)

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To conTebeiiclo the African fleet to be referred to the destination of corn mns 9 of which it will be dealt with for the year Y. €• 944* We learn so much, I am comfortable with it that year it was established * ♦ •

rt lii. Mr. VOTE THE SUN Dec. P. M. TR. P. XI. IMP. I want COS. V P. P. the emperor i^iwt sian d. I had sacrificed at the altar. AR. (Mus. Caes.)

What YOta ten years in the nth year

pHdris MM^^/a are called, thisBumiannl of the present, and of the immediate following they do Numus is remarkable, and perhaps to others unknown to museums.

F. C. 940. P. X! /57.

TR. P. XII. COS. F. P. M. P. P. PirS.

FEL. BHIT. IMP. III.

Critpino^ Aeliano cob.

Uncertain, what happened to the year they should be referred to the present.

A. M. COMM, ANT. P. FEL. AVG. BRIT I took the jaureaimfi in AF. eiAR.

B. M. COMMODV8. ANT P. FELIX AVG. BRIT I took the bait inAE. h

C. M. COMM. ANT P. FELIX AVG. BRIT I took the radio in AE. 11.

D. M. COMMODV8. ANTOMNVS. PIV8. HAPPY AVG. BRIT I got a better reaium in AE. max. mode \

Fi iii. A. him B AVCT He walks I went to AE. 1. THE AVENGER Pity P. M. TR. P. XII. IMP. VIII. COS. V. P. P» Muieraiann anie aram d. paieram^ 9. acerram AR. AE. I. (Mus. You kill.)

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He earned the title of most pious Yideri could, while taking special care spends sacred But this also, as everything else, in a maddening manner, and more unworthy of the government. For in the sacred Isia- cis and his head shaved, and Anubis porlaYit and in that bearing the heads of the Isiacs in their mouths graYiter afflicted to the image •). Have a good time even Yictimarius himself sacrifices the sacrifices Yit ^). What is it that both the god himself and Her" to whom calling noYam popnlo exer* He provided material for a centenary of piety, de where more to the year V« C. 945. Aeneas OYidio is said to be more suitable for pieiaiis

To be sure, he cried out to his gods and father with affection, and duly proved it ^), whence the difference between that YCter, and Take our pious leader here.

Be of him A. He is noble. AVG. P. M. TR. P. XH. IMP. VIII. COS. V. P. P. Maiier sians d. hasiam, s. Iccunciaum, guae d. pay ram^ s. I went to Hasia. Av. remarkable elegance of AR. AE. II. all in Mus. You kill

See, what to the like coin of the year of the preceding animation.

Fi iii. A. him B FATHER SENATE, yoI SENATES. PM etc. Emperor Yogaius sian d. branch s. I will gasp. AR. AE. I. (Mus. Caes.) How angry I was in the senate's mind

a) Lampvid. chap. 9. b) Ibid. chap, 5. c)'Fa8t. 11. 543

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rit Commodus, the first to be thrown out Local sisters conspired against themselves tion, and what papaque ilLa in illusXrem this he killed the order of his most distinguished men throughout the whole subsequent period of the empire, Lampridius and others recount it abundantly. Qare if the senate in the previous year tis Pius made himself emperor, and him In the presence of the Senate, the Senate and at other times he ap- pellayit ^) , it was twisted by me it was, of course, as a form of thrown piety The infamous monster pla« lacks For when did the true fathers perish? Eosensus, after his violent death It was made public, as we will teach below. It was yet the time in which the senate names to his own, namely Commodianus Felicis washes, as Dio relates ^). Moreover, of the Father The name of Sennaius is by no means the command of the Com- It is to be thought that Modiani was invcnt. For Already in the age of Claudius he tried to ' rante Tacitus ^) : Ott ea Fipsanius the consul The father of the senate was appealed to to be Ciaudius, evidently of a promiscuous father the disgrace of the country; new in rempubii Cam Meria did not comply with the terms of honor randa But the historian also adds, no This man was rebuked by the prince. Serins Balbinnus also, and Pupienus, were said to be fuer Fathers of the Senate

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Ft. A. and D. PM TR. P. XIL IMP. wine COS. V. P» P. double door sian in the temple division^ d. I will gasp. AY AE. max. mode (Mus. Cacs.)

Ft lit. Mr. The same epigraph. A head of twin wool. AE. roax mode (Mus. Medic.)

All this is because of the twin gods. to commend elegance and rarity their children cusorum caasa l^teat^ Yide- there is here the worship of wool in the part of Commodus. /^ie/a^>constituted, whose AuctQrem, We have seen the same thing. how much rit in the wool^ with affection, it will appear from the sky of the same Medici museum, which soon in- I will describe it in the first place The head of the twin is comfortably in the wool A new example of astonishment is proposed.

Ft lit. Mr. PROVIDENCE AVG. P. M. eU. The ship turgentfi came AE. max. mode (Mus. Medic.)

I have already recited a similar coin in the year preceding

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Ft iit* D. A gilded head^ veic The head of Commodus's twin then in the fashion of wool. TELLVS STABLE P. M. TR. P. XH. IMP. VIII COS. V. Muiier sitting on the ground d. giobumpraegrandem stiiatumcontingit^ on which four virgins are shaking branches s. common stock and simu basket in- nixa^ behind the tree AE. max. mode (Mus. Medic. tab. 48. and 44* 9 of Camps.)

Numos with a similar inscription, and We have seen the type on the coins of Hadrian, to whom ex rero tributa laus teiiuris siabiiitae^ at In order to settle the student, as is clear. Commodus' head in wool you have just done it with a custom design.

Be lit. A. VOTE THE SUN Dec. P. M. TR. P, XII. IMP. VIII COS. V. P. P. Emperor

a) Laraprid. chap. 8. b) L. 76 %. 15. f c) Ann. 40 25-

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They were excited to the point of disgust All decades, dequlbttsdistine- tis agemtts pecnliari dissertaiione.

F. C. 9Af. P. X. fSS. Th. P. Xnt. COS. K P. M. P.P.PIFS.

FEL. DHT MP SEVEN. C. /iUio Fuiciano II. , Duillius Silano IL

Presuming to proceed to Africa Tim demands a large amount of money in that name. The vows are therefore conceived for him No- nis Aprilis* Yerum was retained by the senate and to his people, money in the streets and turned the stake •).

A. M. COMM, ANT» P. FEL. AVG.

BRIT I took the laureate in ^F.

and Att 3. M. COMMODVS. ANT, P. FE-

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rt Ui. A. or B. P.M.^TR. P. XIII. IMP. Vlil. COS. V. P. P. various tt/pis. AR. AE. I.

In this way almost every year It is written as a denial. Tjpi nothing already co- they provide a smoky look.

V. C. 942. P. X. /89.

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TR. P. XIF. COS. F. DES. FI P. P.

PIFS FEL. BRIT IMP. III.

luni SilanOi Q. Servilio .Silano cos.

Tillemontius refers to the year huBO

Cleandmm will be the prefect of the prefect permission of the people from Comraod, and when the family of Caesus, of which Dio abundantly Herodianus, Lampridins*

A. M. COMM. ANT P. PEL. AVG. BRIT Laureate head in AR.

B. M. COMMODVS. ANT P.FE- 50 AVG. BRIT C^laurea- then in AE. I.

C. M. COMM. ANT P. FELIX AVG. BRIT Laureate head in AE. 11.

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Ft lit. A. or B. 18 IVVEN Bed in AE. l. 18 4- I came P. M. TR. P. XII. COS. V.P. P. luppiter barbatua atans d. lightning hasiamj for the feet of an eagle. AR. AE. I. even max. mode (Mus. Caes.)

He invented love at a different age ancient mythology, wandering and in co- Corjbantus is represented by the Greek gods not a few, the occupant of the goat was shown naked the maiden of the god Antoninus Pius, and with the addition of on IpVI The growing god of Gal- of the spleen, and of his family, more advanced in age, but still a boy, he invented luve- nose ^) :

Mnltapudicitiaeteris traces perhaps Some birds had existed ^ etsublove^ but

love not yet Bearded

In the end, I love you and they stand to fear J. am beard. Was there a wolf somewhere with the name of Louvain? called, and observed, I do not know, and

a) Laropride chap. 9 and J2. b) S^U VI. ▼. 14.

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perhaps they are the only gods of Coxnmodus who know him so they call Domitian, who was overthrown by the god, but whose, if by the way only a Mediobarbo is cited (to the anndm Y. C. 837.) there is no reason to drink. So it will be given bic lovis luvenin cultns and began with Conveniently, and that he expired with her, or more truly, Commodus himself brought ation by this name and tjpo understand-? tar, of course, which is like the sum of love he would have the power, but the youth by right still be said in this age, and this year, qoo XXyill. age bat

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The rest of the names: MAR, PAC. in AR. Tcl: MART. PEACE in AE. I. - MIN. VICT in AR. Yeli MINERV» VICT in AE. I. and II. - FORT. FEL. in AR. or: FORT FELI in AE I. - Sec. Orb. in AR: or : SEVRIT Orb. in AE. 50 was added to all these; P. M. TR. P. 14 COS. V. P. P.

In the same year : COS. DES. VL

M. COMMOD. ANT P. FELIX

AVG. BRIT P. P. Head laureate

then in j4E. I.

M. COMM. ANT P. FEL. AVG.

BRIT P.P, Cajmt laureatum in

AR.

M. COMM. ANT P. FELIX

AVG. BRIT P. P. Radiant head

then itt AE 11.

The name of the inscription : COS. DES. 6. they are They are straight, but they look the same to those whom I have just described, add to always : P. M. TR P. 14 IMP. VHL

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COS. V. DES. VL having omitted P. P. quo^ niam this title on their front meroo* it is raked

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TR. P. XF. COS. FL P. 3/. P FEL. BBIT IMP. son

PIF&.

Conveniently Aug. FL, 3f, Petronio Septi- miano cos.

Rome's own Colony Conveniences-- for with the addition of Lucia Antoniniana names and ceremonies between ceremonies instituted to appeal Let's see the following you

A. M. COMM. ANT P. FEL. AVG. BRIT P. P. Laureate head in An.

B. M. COMM. ANT P. FELIX AVG. BRIT P. P. Caput law liability in AE. IL

C. M. COMMOD. ANT P. FELIX AVG. BRIT P. P. Head laureate then in AE. I.

D. M. COMMODVS. ANTONIN VS. PIVS HAPPY AVG. BRIT. Ca- put laureate in AE. max. mode

E. IMP. COMFORT VS. AVG. PIVS HAPPY Laureate head in AE, max. mode (Mus. Caes. Albani.)

Let us conclude here with the epigraphs because of the prefix IMP. , when, however, in in part the opposite Commodus is called IMP. VIII. , and because of the omission of BRIT. tain It was unusual for me, and the year before* feel the adversary, so that therefore the money

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iasignera of the greatest fofma of the museum of Caesa i\ei, which I will give below, in my catalog charged with the common suspicion of fraud. But after examining him on the other hand did they really kill the innocent, and sub- then I would see another written PIO* IMP. etc. which I will soon produce, when "with the same chronological marks, and the same the epigraph of the capital is in the museum of Pi- healthy, absoiyendtts of course numus, Many of us have an example of TCTERI you die by the command of Commodus confused

n lit. A. and B. APOLLO warns but in the Aeneas: APOL. Coins. PM TR. P. XV COS. Vl.

Apollo standing naked d. moved his head £olumnae leaning* AR. AE. II.

Moneta from the moon tis Carisiae, as well as yeter tcstimonies and the cause of his appeal let's hope, not also Apollo's Monetac by which name ApoUinus alone, that of the Scians God's favors, cx-causa mibi incom* they discriminate But not Tcla lubct to spread conjectures; for we came here even the names given to the gods, which are one He generated a convenient brain, known as ni- a strange genius, who, as Lam- earlier'), in sacres out of lust rather which religion he added. The same Apollo line Moneta of the following year also gods in the air l. forms are present.

Ft lit. C. and B. Col. L. AN. COM. P. M. TR. P. XV. IMP. VIII. COS. 6. 8. C. Commodus

the oxen lead the yoke of the plough. AE. I. II. (Mouse Cacs.)

I have already duly explained the opposite of this name. Cue Patinus, elsewhere. Lauipri tells day ^), he advanced in dementia the way that the city of Rome Colonia Com' to be called Violent, who It is mentioned among his drawings by Marciao injected He adds, at the time of the senate and then he reported on what was to be done in Commodus Rome, not only the senate that he had accepted three times, but he himself modianzun called There was also astonishment the senate deliberated munituhi, which testified Then the senate ordered everyone present signed How perlina- pivcrit, further declares to God ^). For He commanded, he says, that Rome was a people Commodiana itself, and the army of Com*

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to appeal to the Modians and to Rome

himself the Eternal^ Happy^ Colony of the world for he wanted Jicta in the world at all, his city was seen as a colony. But for it was not long before this news the colony would be overthrown by him. who her he led For he had set fire to the city, he said in another place Lampridius <<), as a colony his own, unless he had been profaned by Laetus.

But the veiled priest plowing your oxen encouragement strengthens; for it is accessible in the number of cities, which colonies were conducted they are And this to the chagrin of Commodus belongs to the institute, which holds the same God ^) , to him a golden statue of a thousand Hbri*' rum was placed with a bull and a cow presumably as the founder of the colony. Vi- de, which acre of this colony dedu-

a) in Commodity chap. t6. b) in Commodity. chap. 8. c) L. 72 § JL5.

Convenient chap. 15- e) 1. c.

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Eenclae rite more docuimas Yoh IT* page 489. Excellent with this type of con- in the epigraph, which in addition called the light of Cologne slipped away.

The whole epigraph is thus without doubt fill in: COLOMA hucia k^toniniana COMMODIAN^ qoomodo and Diospolia Samaritides, and Elentheropolis of Lydia come down to the gods to tell Lucias SeptimiaM Severiana Taroen that wonder, indi- and that it was the first name of Lucia in the world, which at the time Commodus himself predicted It is constantly used by me, except perhaps already now TCtus, and long since abolished by Lucius The pi*aenomen looked at him for a moment, which in fact We will see you again in the next two years. They also belong to this argument inscribed name: HERC. Rom. COND., qaoa we will look at the year 5. C. q45*

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Vi liU D. COS. VI. Jemperator atans marshals d. parazonium^ ». spear bent woman captures the elephant proboscisdoor born d^ the lion happens^ s. he holds the spikes back setting the trophy of Fictoria. AE.max mode (Mas. Albani.)

I see a similar aversion even in nii mo Antonini Pius of the Musei Pisani, from which Commodus seems to have borrowed the type. Dtxirous in the figure of Antoninus, in this image to be told that the Moors were thrown out by him, but also the same provided by Commodus reports L»m- earlier This is the case with the woman sitting tjpo to mark Africa, it is certain from nu- nio Seyer of the year Y. C. 947, in which the like The inscription on the figure reads: AFRIC A.

n lit. A. COS. 6. P. Pf yir naked team acting above the clouds in the form of a torch rent aef the upper part of the shore of the zodiac, below the woman bensy s.comncopiae AE. max.mod.{llu8. You kill and of King Galliar.)

Yt there is no doubt, Tirnm in quadri^ you are the Sun, and the woman on the ground the Earth spread by the Sun or a leaf or enlightened, so he will not be able to catch up What did they dare to outline on this subject? monetary In a god of the greatest form It is similar to the Medici museum, but in in front is the head of Antoninus, and a similar occ. runs in the air of the I^icaeans when he catches M. Aurelius <>), and in the jewel of the museum Flo^ rentini *»)•

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FAITHFUL COH. P. M. TR. P, XV. COS. 6. Mutier standing d. spikes, «. flag AR. (Mus. Caef»*)

Ft lit. A. Faith COHORTIVM. AVG* Same tg- pus AR. (Mus. Caes.)

I haven't named anyone else's address yet It was allowed to look at the coin TC. £unt not so long ago in the Caesarean museum I asked you

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LIBERAL AVG. VII. PM TR.P.XV. IMP. VIH COS. 6. S. C. Liberality standing, Tel: Emperor on the platform more tired AE. I. (Mus. Caes.)

a) No. mstx mode rcg. Gsiil. b) Tom. II. tab. BT»

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rt liU A. liberality AVG. VU. Liberatat ftmti AR. (Mus. Com. VitzaL)

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n lit. E. PIO MP. EVERYTHING. HAPPINESS PM TR. P. XV IMP. VUL COS. VLF. P. Nejn itmuM MeminuduM ttdtiM t. front foot Titus was helpless, d. hattam^ i. a dolphin; adttat emperor togatut telatut d. open They sacrifice the ram to the altar. AE. max. mode (Mos. Albani, Maifei Antiq.Gall. p.idi* Mu». Floreht tab. 111.)

Singtilamest formnla part arsa, I would also believe that it belongs to Tola 20, He died in that year, unless Neptune had troubled him standing by So perhaps this type of husband mum is looking at some road, such as more pious than Commodus, either true or false Lampridius reports the intention of the causes. m

As lit, E. P. M. TR. P. XV. IMP. VMI C08. VL P. P. Emperor in lentit quadrigitt.tci- a pawn with an eagle crowned by Victoria back and forth AE. m. m" (Mus. Caes.)

This famous coin of Commodus pro** the consular departure of Kal. lan. years ago s^ntis offers A similar type of reverse ha- bet coin with double metal in mu- Seo Pisano

lit. A. V0TI8. 20 COS. 6. Imra laurel AR. (Mus. Caes.)

Ft lit B VOICE 20 P. M. TR. P. XV IMP. Paul

COS.VX 8. C. within a wreath. AE. II. (Blas. Caes.)

Of these vows see elsewhere the particular dis- a series

F. C. 944. P. X. 191.

TR. P. XFL COS. FL DES. FIL P. U.

P. P. PIFS. FEL. BRIT IMP. son

Cattio Aproniano, Braduacot.

This, or next year, will be magnificent the temple of Peace was destroyed by a terrible conflagration thanks, with whose persistence He i^odianus

A. M. COMM. ANT P. FEL. A VG. BRIT P. P. Laureate head AF and AR

B. M. COMMOD. ANT P. FELIX AVG. BRIT. P. P. Bull's head

, then in AE. I.

C. M. COMM. ANT P. FELIX AVG. BRIT P. P. Head laureate then in AE. II.

D. M. COMMODVS. ANTONINVS. PIVS HAPPY A VG. BRIT Ca- put laureate in AE. max. mode

Ft lit. A. S. C. APOL.PAL.P.M.TR. P. XVL COS. VI. ApoUo ttolatut ttant d. plectrum^ t. ly- ram tuper filter AR. AE. L H. (Mos. You kill.)

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Ancient uncertain. APOLLO Palatine P. M. TR. P. XVI. IMP. VIII. COS. 6. P. P. Apoilos tUh latut ttaat d. plectrum, t. together with him ttante Fictoria holds the lyre. AE. max. mode (Mus. de Camps.)

The Temple of Apollinaris was already built Octavian made a witness to Suctonius •),

a) in Aug. c. 29.

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and indeed [to cut Oion in the year V. C. 7i8-*), and this he himself testifies inmarmore Ancyrano^*): TEMPLVM- QVE APOLLINUS IN. PALACE - - - I did it. The Palatines of this Apollo from time to time to increase the honors of Tictus at Actium, and JGXta Apoliinus Actius temple of Anthony. Nasone, too, was so grateful for his favor bearing the joy of God's presence ^) :

The palace of Phoebus was consecrated to the laurel. He drowned Paraetouias in high rates,

He said Paraetonias for Aegyplias, from Pa- i*aetonio Marmarica pppidus, which region Cleopatra was born in Egypt. At- which is the reason why in the same worship of course, dressed in a robe, let ApoH appear lo Palatinus, in which Actins in copious nu- mis Augustus, of whom I remember in this coins to the year Y. C. 733, and genlis Antistia, who gave the denarii inscribed tos: APOLLINI action In marble Masonry is betrayed by priests. dia- NAE. VICTORY AND APOLLINUS PA- LATiW ^). Zosimus also remembers nit of the palace of the Palatine Apoiinis ^) , that the apostate emperor Julian the god is thirsty for those who are in danger Ammianus Mar- cellunit 0*

Aniica variegated. , HERC. COMM. or : COMMODIAN P. M. TR. P. XVI. COS. Vl. Hercules standing half-naked before the altar d. bowl eomucopiae^ near the tree^ from which the lion

the exuviae are hanging. Av. (Vaill.) AE. max. jnod. (Mus. Albani.) AE. I. II. (9& us. You kill.)

At length the Com- jnodus, so that not only the god himself to be spent in public, which indeed is a disadvantage some of the former Augustus he took possession, but his laurels were thrown away, so far the emperors have been his head adorned with the worship of the god in mo- neta would take care of public presentation. It was this hitherto allowed the vanity of the Greek I am the one who takes her kings to the gods washed, and also Augustus, whose -lu- many examples in Nero's pumice we have seen the evils of strangers, the truth from the wicked immune to this flattery to this day was the currency of the Romans, and although the right side sometimes rules let them clothe themselves with the garment of God, but that .made more reverential, and to some extent still shame, for the constant appeal of God he abstained three times from the epigraph, and nothing in the cul- that capital is unchanged, that majesty It would be unbecoming of the government. Commodus' impudence broke through the straw, but which indo from this year until the end of his life the issue of his numbers and epigraph, and types speak of the present god, ni- how strange and all that what is shameful, what is impure, what is cruel stealthily, what gladiatorially, quaelenonically he had done, he ordered the city to be cut down, as he says Lampridias S). When it is pos- she chose to be Hercules since by the slaughter of these beasts I prayed that he had nearly equaled his prowess he wanted This was once a man, but a rood

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a) L. XLDt. § 15. b) Tab. IV. v.l. c) The art of araal. L. IIL v. 389- dj Pag. 1119.1. e) L. II. under he enters f) I- XXII. g) Chap. 15.

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God's astonishment is not just a long nu- a warning, but also a testimony proves the train, whose illustration ra conferla here to propose because of the Tat to which in consequence I will challenge you with an explanation.

I called the Roman Hercules^ by which name the gods will meet next year that was the first clique because the beasts of Lanuyii in the amphitheater reports Lampridius •), and Dio >»)• If ve- the faith of others, of course in that name, if the body ris yires you look, unworthy not yideba- there, for even an elephant can be transfixed and one day he shot a hundred bears he finished, tired, with one sip of the cup He finished what was offered to me by the girl, so that I could not drink indeed, and by the love of women Hercules was infected. These things are done, the less it can be doubted, by Dio topta ^), then Lampridius ^). A hundred from Hero tells us that the lions were killed one day dianns,^), and Ammianus 0* Propterhaec while the other Alcides was possessed, and he himself it may be said, immediately hastened to the statue the people of the rum, which God's Commodus had proposed, and soon he, nt pre- feel God, sacrificed 8). But he himself did so Hercules Jesus is true to himself, nt, cum he would come forth, with the lion's skin, and the club before him he would order himself to be carried ^). As it is true and Hercules tamed the monsters, which fa- bulosas were generally believed to be imitated men alive, clothed in cloths and cloths he formed in the manner of a giant, and laid the matter was finished >)• And oom the rumor grew- he would have established the emperor with arrows

to accomplish something, like Hercules I will give Stjmphalidas, done, as most of them not even to enter the amphilhealrum they dared ^* £t these facts in the eyes of the chickens, the fathers cheering through the honey; the first "«, feliciwmuM esy you win, vitt* ces, one from all memory, AmasMnie^ winds To the point of infamy The son of Marcus, he was reduced to the greatest burden the meeting of the fathers What he could the people went to avenge her tnrpidity. £n diasjrlicon of this kind is not illepi- while from Lampridius ^):

I chose to have the name Hercules

he wants The Antonines are not ptstat ezse good. • Expert in human law and government

Hoping that he is not even a god As if he were a prince of excellent name NoneritistedeuSy nectamenullushomo.

It was discovered, however, that this it would soften the pore of some. What then? strange, says Alhenaeus, if Commo- The commander was with us in a chariot He had the club of Hercules under him He wanted to be called Leonispelley and Hercules with Alexander Aristotle's precepts im- butus he had surrendered himself to those gods and so also of Diana*

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yt lit. Mr.

you wish HAPPY Five ships etc. AE* max. mode (Mus. Albani.)

See about gods like paollo in- fra*

a) Chap. 8. b) L. 72 § 15. c) L. c. § 18 19. d) Chap. 12. 13- c) in

Conirood f) 531 c. 10. g) Laroprid. chap. 9. God i. c. § 15- h) Dio 1. c»

§ 17. Herodian. L. I. c. 14. i) Lamprid. chap. 9. Dlo 1. c. § 20. k) God I. c. 1) in

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In the same year: Returns the first name Lttciif expired B/UT,

£x nuniis, qaos I will just review, ii, the consuls refrain from mentioning this, they could be hit the following year

A. L AEL. Avrel. COMM. AVG. P. F£L. Capuilaureatum inAH AE. I. IL

B. L. AELIVS AVRELIVUS COM- MODVS. AVG. PIVS HAPPY in AE. max. mod

C. IMP. COMFORT AVG. 51 VS. HAPPY Laureate head in AE, max, mod. (Uym. Pisani.)

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Ft lit. A. L O. M. SPONSOR. Sec. AVG. wolf piter stan9 t. spear d. order joins a civilian standing by d. ball ^ S' Holding a scepter. AR. In bronze I. for* In addition, it is added: COS. VI. PP St. Cetluppiter s. support (Mus. Caes.)

Ft lit. A. lOVL DEFENSE You are saved. AVG. hip piter standing between seven or threes, or planets d. lightning intentaty s. a spear AR. (Mos. Caes.)

Ft lit. A. MAIHL DEVM. CONSERV AVG. COS. VL P. P. 8. C. Cybele barred with a lion d, tgmpanum, s.hastam. AE. I. II. (Mus. You kill.)

This god, however, is the same as Hercules need to have been love sponsor security, and Drfensoresalutis^ and the Mother of God vatrice^ praesentesnamiprofitentar come out esteems Lilias Gjrraldas ') | Aia Hi^rrtof

Dlonysius Halicamassensis I>) who stood on the hill of Martial, had been love/idea sponsor, and maybe ip him I am whom the Romans gave to the God of Faith wear Epigraph not much absent The issue is recorded in the posthumous record: I. O. M. SPONSOR SAECVLL AVG., whence can be cast, even in the present day ro SEC. note SECuium^ not SECtrrr- tatem^ unless it was established from Augustus, in the gods are always written S AECVLVM ^ not SEXXLVM* Moreover, he was bad at his job it was done stupidly, when the day before Ka- lend lan. next year's evil yadi!- he abandoned the warning. But rightly the mother of God He recognized the conservative. For some years ago, on the day of the usual Mega game* Lesions were made in his honor, Mother* let no one be the leader of Caesar's bandits He obtained a gambling license plot. Betrayed by the counsel of the partners, and the author himself and the people the game of every goddess, as if the prince He would have escaped from the present danger, the sister-in-law performed ^). Of Serapidc also discussed just below.

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Ft lit. A. Magnificence. AVG. COS. 6. P. P. within a crown. AE. II.

This god is missing in Mediobarbo, ex- stands among the Vaillants, and where, the chance tj- by a possible error, read COS. IIl. One- since that is the Magnificence innumerable written example, than the epigraph in a most vain man any reason why whatever stupid way he could dictate.

* *

Ft lit. B Capitadttojugata^ Com-

a) Synt. p. 86- b) L. K. p. 617- c) Herodian. L. L c. 10.

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modiradiatum^ of female slaves on whose breast a fur coat was attached

P1ETA8. A VG. P. M. TR. P. Mu-

lier Mcdena d, standing by the child what port* it stiffens. AE. max. mode (Reg. Gall.)

Medals of the greatest form of this, and In the following year, not infrequently, the head of Commodus when the women offered the yoke. That It is usually a helmet, and it is believed antiquarians, that portrait of Marcia con- Cttbinam, how lost he was, in the dress of the Amazons, in which I imagined her most of them were yellow), and how many He loved that opcre with worship, as first a month of the year called by her Amasaonium ret ^) , the image of the Amazon letters obsig* naret <^), the Amazon himself inhabits the are- for he descended, the name of the Amazons he himself ^), and that, though he would abstain from time to time, he would than «). To be the head of the Com- of the modiana of this Marcia, that yesum ernditis, probably enough, though of others He would be patient with his appeals; yet in Amazon he argued, pinning his coat to his chest, than was Amazon's own cli- it is difficult to understand. The heads of both are juxtaposed in addition to what the present deity stands for, Tidre is still in the world of the greatest mo-^ tab. XIII , in Bu- , observes the narrative. hist. page 1 17. , in VaiUantii Numis is present. T. III. edit Rom. p. 1461 in the Florence Museum* tab. XLYIL, in Moses Albani tab. XXXVIH.

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He got rid of the roofs, for whose feet he was iea^ $• $istrum displays; Amc against Hercules naked from the prow of the ship impc sito^ "* each of them goes over to the boat he joins the right hand together with the spike. AR. AE. I. (Mus. Caes.)

This Providence Aug. redeemed the opinion marks the arrival of the African fleet hendoo destined for corn, of which soon below piephanti exuyiae, sistrum, leo were attributed to Egypt, and Africa cae proper, which were the storehouses of the city. But Commodus himself, as he was to the witnesses of the year following the god Hercuie$ Homae con- In this god Hercules is represented as a ditor sent by worship to ask for the goods yibus, qaarum treads with one foot, u 0- providing for his colony. through here they keep those things which were formerly the cause of gifts of grain, which the emperors often you would go to the cities, to the money, Tars^nsem inscribed C6IT0C, and another of Laodicea in Syria i got 0*

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Ft lit. A. SERAPIDS CONSERV AVG. Seraphim $tan$ d. extended ^ $ a spear AB (Mns. You kill.)

It was convenient for the superstition of Ae- captive of the Egyptians, the witness ha- we drink "Lampridium, who worshiped him." sacred to Isis, that he had removed his head, and had worn it Anubis reports. Therefore, in part honor Ris and Serapis were among the leaders In Egypt the gods of worship, and here also $erv'atori$ Augu$ti earned the name

a) Lamprid chap. 11. b) Dio L. 74 $ 15. c) Capitoline. in Albino. d) Lam* prid. 1. c. e) God 1 c 0 Doclr. Vol. 3* p. 73. and 321.

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Be the lifter. B. Capita jugaia Commodus of gold, and a handsome helmet for him. THE TIME HAPPINESS Four young girls of four years old will teach AE. weak mode (Reg. Gall. eiMus. Pisani.) AE. 1« (Mos. Chri»(iQae.) This was averted because of the enormous nium, and memorable, ex- folded above in the palm of the year's spring.

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Fi iii. C.

V0TI8. HAPPY Five ships sails and oars; juxia on the rock pkarus, adfiani figure of two halves in the sea propecianiea y infra qua» iaums from the rock a great act AE. max* mod* (Haym. T. U. p. 2()7. Mus. Pisani, Mus. Doctors.)

Aversao explains Hay- better, of course, to present the African fleet cana, of which Lampridius thus '): Clas* he instituted the African race, which was a relief esseif if by chance Atexandrina grains ces- Sassenes On the shore stand the priests who wish the fleet happy the prosecutrix, who is not bloodthirsty to them; yes- nim caesa already vicliraa bull on the ground the god of the sea, the god of heaven, is also a witness Brown ^) :

The bull of Nepiunus is the best for you

Apostol Cleo, too, immoved the sea Menes, king of Sparta c), and the common said Plutar chus ^).

And this excellent rite I alluded to the image of this is described by Valcrius Fiac- why

Then happily they set up the altars; the ruler there of waters

The highest honor to you in blue ribbons

He Zephyris' Gtaucoque bovemy Theii- tell the heifer

Ancaeus was cast down.

But even here among the Romans the rites standing Cotta near Cicero ^) : Nosiri Indeed, the commanders of the sea must sacrifice the ingredients sacrifice to the rivers dem by Virgilius S.) :

Black winter cattle, Zephgris feli* white food

Nor, however, were the victims of the sun Antiquity appeased the fury of the river. In the anti- with any marble of Scipio Barbati gilur ^) :

He gave TEMPESTATEBVS help I deserve it.

And 0?day8>) I

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I will praise you too, Tempestus. let's make a bra When you were almost destroyed by the fleet water"

This fleet at least already in the year V. ۥ 946 had been constituted, we have said to him that inscribed coin : PROVID AV(i.

•) Chap. 17. b) Aen. III. etc. c) Herodotus L. Vf. c. 76 d) nos^ iv rt^ iicrdotro

etc. c) Slang L. I. v. 188. 0 ^® nature is divine. L. III. c. 20. g) Aen. IIL 120- h) Piranesi's advice. degli Scip, p, 15. i) Fast. YL J93.

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F. C. 943. P. X. f92. TR. P. XFIL COS. riL P. M. P. P.

PIFS FEL. IMP. son Conveniently Aug. II. P. Helvius Periinace

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Commodities pridle Kalendas lan. night le intercourse y1 brought is extinguished in the year at the age of 35 in the 4th month

It was through cruelty, and in- the reputation of the worst princes dasy who does not rera Ro* with thin hands, and by swordsmanship those in which he had excelled, worthy of ru- more generally in the common people, not by Mark light, but the gladiator through adultery Fau- to have been conceived *)• In his enar- with the rands of crime and the amazement of his genius, he did not attempt anything, nothing he did not realize thought sent, I do not wish to be more lengthy, some of the more important partera in ipsorura already mentioned the explanation of the numbers thrilled Which, however, is intact under his command the republic stood, to the provincials themselves - Mauris, Dacians, Pannonians, Britons, To the Germans who refused his rule, that of the distinguished leaders of Pertinaci, Severus, Pescennius Nigris, Albinus virtuos, and it was due to faith. Meanwhile he he sat down at leisure in Rome, unless that the weapons there are not only on animals, but on beasts as well as tame, but horaines also only if they were rich, or suspicious of themselves, he went on, having declared that the war was going on to whom for yete, and received up to now I was compelled by the appeal of the secundura of Dion, and this is the testimony of the present Rorae indidit noraina: AmazoniuSy Invictus^ Felix^ Piu9y Lucius^ AeHus^ Aureliua^

Commodum^ Augustw^ HereuleuB^ Ro^ Exterminator hand And infamous this monster, several times in traps {vvl* sira request, finally conspiracyMar- He perished in the Arakan city, and in Araazonia. which cares in the girl Commodus to perpetuate with his hand he pointed out the letter, why it was to him sleeping, to play with her he went, and in it he also killed himself he would read designated, still at the same time hope, who was at the end of this year he first offered poison to Commodus, when that 16 ili«d began to reject, his fau- ces by the brought gladiator Elidius* let it be So Commodus, who was Domitian his behavior was similar to that of the he perishes, and makes use of his own scheming I was caught by a young girl thinking nothing of the sort betrayed ^). After hearing it, kill the body to be dragged on a hook and thrown into the Tiber return, demanded the senate with one voice, and fleas, and it is worth the effort cry out to the fathers of Lampridium tions, with which the fatal hour memo- they were exhumed, and they did not live together have the dead to be punished baat But Pertinax was already said to impe- he was buried first, then in Hadrian ordered the monuments to be brought down. De its consecration will be dealt with below. His strength so wrote Lampridius, Dio, Hero- dianus, in addition to the savings of others. The wife of Crispi, of whom below.

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A. L. AEL. Avrel. COMM. AVG. P. FEL. Head into the colorful culture of every metal and form,

B. L. AELIVS AVREL VS»^ COM-

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It was taken with a variety of worship j m AE. max. . mode

Ft lit. j4. You took off the lion's head

roof HERC. Rom. COND. CO3. VII. P. P. don't forget a. the club of oxen and plows duciL AV. (jVIb». Caes.)

Ft. B* The head is similar to worship HERC. Rom. founder P- M. TR. P. XVn. COS. Vll. P. P. The same type. A£. max. mode (Reg. Gall.., Pisani, de Camps.)

The opposite explanation is hidden from God Col. L.^AN. etc. anni V« C. 943.

lit. A.

HERCVLL ROMANO AVG. Hercules When a club d^ set up a trophy it happens AR. AE. I. II. In others: Arcus and pkaretra AR. AE. I. or : HERCVL. ROMAN AVGV. Claiva in- through the Laurians AR. AE. I. II.

Ask for an explanation from the same source. and from those which, in the previous year, mum HERC I argued with the dresser. Gree imitated the evil example cia euro who appeals to his gods PnMAiriN. HPAKAHC. how do you know" Cjzici^), and others, as well as Alexan^ drinis

As lit. A. Bull's head. BOOK AVG. wine P. M. TR. P. XVII COS. Vn. P. P. Liberaiitas 9tans. AR. AE. IL (Mus. Caes.)

Ft. A. Laureate head.

PM TR P. XVn. IMP. VIII. COS. VH P. P. Tgpis various in omnimetatoetforma. This is the usual currency of this year, and in this area in addition to other years the custom is usually to visit the star.

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Ft lit. A. Bull's head. The same epigraph. Sarapis standing and judging Isis with her sister, and Commodus in plain clothes, whom Fictoria, standing behind, crowned at the altar standing they join the tlextera^ A£ I.IL (Mus. You kill.)

(^onfirmanthi numi pertinacem Com» ways in the Egyptian superstition to done, and especially in the sacred Sarapidus and Isis, of whom I spoke to the god SERA* PIDI etc. of the year 5. C. 944

The same story TH. P. XFUL remaining r^UquU.

Ft lit. B. A lion's head on the skin of a coo^

pertussis HERCVLL ROMANO.AVG.P. M. TR, P. XVIII COS. VII. P. P. Hercules Far- rather AE. max.mod. (Reg. Gaul. Vaill.) In another: Hercules is naked and turned away s. a club^ next to the lion. AE.. max. mode (de Camp».) In another: Hercules naked standing d. the club, s, the lion's foot name AE. max. mode (Mus. Albani.) ^

The same reverse. HERC. Rom. CONDITORL P. M. TR. P. 18 COS. VII. Hercules plowing AE. max. mode (Mus. Albani.)

Another similar addition on the reverse. P. P.

S. C. A£. I. (Mus. Christinae Tab.

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Anttca inceria. piety AVG. P. M. TR. P. XVIH. COS. VII. P. P. Woman sitting bystander boy AE. max. mode (Vail.)

As lit. A. P.M.TR.P. 18 IMP. VIIL COSVII P. P. Muiier sitting right facing ad- I stretched out so much, e. caste star area AR.

He is healthy, and whole in the museum of Cae- «Area Similar to Gessner's citaturexmu- seo Pfau Tab. tai 10.

Ancient inert. P. M. TR. P. 18 COS. VII. P. P. The emperor, enraged, sacrifices to the altar standing Hercuie AE. max. mode (Bal- Aini to Vaill T. III. p. i54.)

The types already known from the previous ones. Om- but lest these gods power 18 1 I couldn't find anything, slu- I have described it more because of those things that once happened I am more abundant in dealing with this power to argue*

Wandering God*

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Golden head* MAURETANIA 8. C. Virpiieatusd.ca- He holds back the horse's pie. Bacchus* AE. I. (Vaill. num. prest. T. I. p. 95. in ice- jeism Mouse Christina tab. ai.)

Numum with the same obverse already «but in the coin* Hadria. Also htc ad It also touches on the convenience, which im-

driving the rebels of the Moors into submission they were recalled •).

Divus Commodus

However, I'm still very nice to all of you covered by Severus afterwards in the gods He reported the number, adding Fiamine, which He himself had prepared for himself a living Herculeanus Commodian Lampridius, who re- fert^), the senate thinks that fact with hatred, and agrees Sparlianus, who tells ^), Se- Then, when I claim to take from the senate Tellet, referring to Commodus among the gods while he counted 9 and the first among the soldiers after defeating Aibinus the divine Commodus pronounced that he had gone, and that he had written to the senate to with the prayer of victory. Another consequence it could have been the cause of the fence, since that of Marcus the son and brother of Commodus to be held in vul- Gus wanted Why when he consecrated the fra- trem,' that he did this through piety sus, and more easily, which Tider wanted, per- he exhorted the people, whom, as you will, through lead the supersition of religion" Obser- So far, however, we have not discovered it Con&ecral's favors commanding the money Strictly sealed. which we have, from that There are rums of a kind which will later be remembered They were signed by the Augustus Here they are:

DIVORCE COMFORTABLE head diatum Consecration. Aquia, king of Ara on fire AR. (Mus. Caes.)

This is confirmed by the consecration of Commodus also the marbles of Grutcri, of which He said one thing: I give. COMFORTABLE FRA THREE IMP. CAES, L. SEVENTH SE-

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true Pll. You are persistent. AVG. •) other which is similar to the argument ^). Also in Con* Alexander's station: Divi Marcus, to him It is convenient ^). Yet this man's im- that the pure consecration was im- to be approved, or at least neglected, by them Again we see in the records. In Calendar of Dionjsius Philocalis, in which all the birthdays of the cruel Augustus comforter, the memory of Commodus is retained. It is also omitted in the list of yete Cesa- of the consecrated rums, which Peirescio discovered after Aegidius Bucherius boldly published cl. Marinius ^) , so much so more uncorrupted sunm ju- of the Senate the skin, which also strengthens the roa gis, that H. Consecration of Claudius and Caracalla to retrace

Numi's commatia peregrim

Fribium liberamm

These gods are abundant. uncertain pa- the three may laugh at the bronze god IV. for mae, in whose face is the head and the epigraph of Commodus, on the other: TflEP. NIKHC. PWMAIWN, and type: Got it a veiled woman swearing^ Of these already aliqaa ordered to perish grinned M. Aurelius I would act in the same way as you wrote. verisimilitude that a thousand of their country is Carrbas Me- Sopotamie, I said elsewhere «).

In the numo of Tarsens max. mode Com- not the laurel, but the diadem brings (Mus. Albani ub. 44.)

of Coloma

Which of these coins is missing? Antioch

Under Commodus they were very rare, as has been said in the currency of his city. Alexandrian

They are a great number. the years under the son of M. Aurelius continued tos, we said in these Vol. IV. page 77

On the rarity of Commodus' gold coins.

With the name of other emperors they are left in the same number, a strange pro- Indeed, so rare are Commodus in this metal gods, to make it easier for a hundred al- more Augustus, than one of this re- you will perish, since this metal is this He had become more abundant under the command, who the time in which he presided over everything He commanded Carari to touch the golden light, in order to Did we teach V-C* 988? They will be those who its cause in the export of the greater co- pious gold yolent to report, whereof idleness he himself, loving peace, would redeem from the barbarians, which was made by him the author cst Hero- dian It also agrees with this ruling gold, which is much more useful with a hammer it had been much more than before that he had been more easily indulged in the luxury of foolish food deriyatum Argument be a golden statue a thousand pounds with a bull and a yacca which was placed by Commodus, he relates God, who all things. ta before him he said 0- Or when in his the memory of the deceased is slain by implacable wrath yiret the senate, censing' among others Cingio

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Of course, the statue of him must be abolished from all sides be erased from the graves and public monuments" while *), he is a savage even on the mount his gold, as well as that of the senate ordered the gods of Caligula's confraternity and all the advice of brother Gela Caracalla? Not a little bacc, which me- I stayed, to be able to the present case they could, but still his in the gold of want someone else's account should be requested. In fact, I see the golden netara, which was the first of the commanding Aurelius was met by years, during the years $e- so hot that they fail gradually, as if they were golden his money is hardly to be found at the last the years in which he held the government, what that the consecrated wife of Faustina mum, though that kind in silver and brass it is obvious not even one gold \ in the most opulent, and oplimate cata- 'logis, and not even in the city of Medio- it is possible to find it here, even though it tae mother Faustina the elder golden abun- tooth Aurelius to his wife about five How long did he survive? If so they would have been signed here by ordinary law \ of gold, is it credible that the gold was denied? I said, in which death do you honor others all whom he could think of the greatest to conceive, gathered? Therefore, since the cause of the barbarian's burden of gold, or luxuries, or the senate of hatred, which in Commodus they could not be applied to Aurelius, others would certainly be more ad- To be touched, but which I refrain from touching, qaoniam, whatever I bring, within the con- throws will always stand, even though they are rare, as I said, they are comfortable in

with no gold, so that those sea, when they cast their senary sunl, the salt is seen as noble, ta- but only the treasury of the king of the Gauls I will store eight and three thousand in various types, and two, moreover, of the greatest module, testa- ^ lur cl. Beauvais ^). One of these modules Vaillanlius also popularized it.

Names and titles.

What are the names and titles of Commodus? He gathered us by himself We allow ourselves to be taught with ease* For refcrt God is the epigraph of the letters, the most extreme at the time of the yita to the senate he gave these li- you took the burgeoning ^) :

Emperor Caesar Lucius Julius Aurus lius Commodus^ Augustus Pius Felix Sar* Maticus ^ Germanicus Maximus ^ Brian' nicus, Peacemaker of the world, Fnvicttts^ Jlercules Romanus, the twelfth Pontiff 184 Emperor of the powers of iribunicia VIII, Consul VII Father of the country to all the praetors and tribunes of the people and he was born to Commodianus Felicus

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A little notice in each title mouse:

The buyer Of this double scn- the title below.

LVCIVS, other and MARCVS. No Wave in this place the inconstancy with which Commodus Lucius, or Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus names are used, while they are for pleasure dine has already adopted, already rejects. £a this was the law according to the gods to be broken up with marbles, to be found Once upon a time there were a few yeraces of Norisio

a) Lamprid c. 20. b) Dio L. 60 5. 22. c) Hist. abrcg. T. L p. 259- d) L.

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and Baonarrotuft ') » qaos he has already refuted Bimacdus h)»

At the beginning I take the names of Z. Aurelius It is convenient for them to teach the first one. In to these, at least as far as I know, the name of Aelius I'm not an adder, but you were already there He taught that he was endowed by the Marraor of his age Gi^uterianum, in which it is read «): L. AE- LIO AVRILUS AVG. F. COMFORTABLE. COS. These names beline him Augustus •tus, and they are still read in the year of the gods y. C. q33. But this he promptly rejected the first name of Lucius, even if only retained rarely in the name of Aurelius, his the paternal names of M, Antoninus sufficed, and he went to these in the year 5. C. q44. At this time, the man was more generous Teiera took the names £. Aelius Aurelius omitting also Antoninus ^ and those up to the outcome of life is the excellent use of the gods conspiring with the linden of letters, I am quoted from Dion. Because of its variation it was the same as that of Commodus' totals fttolide of torches

LVCIVS From which pracname this tra- He said, "I don't want the old ones to die." Paternalism certainly it was not. It seems that he was told by his father then I adopted the grace of L. Veri in my brotherhood, from whom and the name of Commodus is verisirail from Aurelia, a race of swift aliens, to have been petilum It is established that Aurelius in the year 5. C. qi4, to which I will congregate he knew, for this old L. Commodus no I had given him the name of L. Veri. fade away rites therefore taken in the name of L. Commodus to resurrect, that in the son after some time by transferring the birth of Roense. Exhibits Mu- marble rator, which pre-

he joins the name, written: L. AEL AVR. M. COMMODE <*) but about his in faith the edilor himself doubts, and doubts also Marius e), See on this argument "mento" some other in the gods of Geta, cu- The first names also varied.

AELIVS This illinomen from Ha- drian by the law of repeated adoption he came

PIVS For the cause of this eulogium cgi to the year 5. C q36, when that first mum is read in the heavens. It's already been a year It was said to have been q34, states Mediobarbus. I do not object to this earlier commencement; for he might have seen gods unknown to me But why is it the same, that his lindens lie to he fixes the year V. C. 9^4, already at the age of Commodore's medals preceding this one cites PII's name preferences? Statute From me they confirm the origin of the gods Ale- xandrines, in which tituius 6TCCBHC it is not read before the year KA, which began in Thoth V. C q36.

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HAPPY Narrates Lampridius f), da- and this title to Commodus, afterwards* than Perennis, who had entered upon the government it was believed that the farailia was extinct. This testimony of Larapridius lies argues Tiileraontius, since Commo- dus already in the gods of the year V. C 9^4 Felix it is said, Perennis the five-year S) But to whom God? Mediobarbi, whom he himself witnessed he calls But especially from Mediobarbus They teach a different kind of god, not lazy, but matured, as was necessary, and these Commodus can only be spelled out V. C qSS. F^^/iV^deniqueaalutant He stood

a) Osscrvaz p. 103. b) in Epist. to Maffei app. Murat. Tom. I. pag. 122. c) Pag. 261. 7-d) Pag. 242. 5. c) Bro. arv. p. 355. 0 Chap. 8. g) in Commodus p. m. 767-

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IgUur whole in this place Lampridius aucto- rites Because then Commodus Felix it begins to be said in trib. by the power of X., and with sulatu ly 9 which are the characteristics of the year Y. C* 1) 38, and he adds this title Lampridius was slain on the occasion of Percnnis, It is clear that at least this one is flowing this year to have been cut off by a violent death, by which commodus in the gods of this year Felix already hears why he is deceived again Tillemontius, who saddened Perennis sam in the following year 989 difTert. It was further said that Felix himself after the death of his father he sat out from the sky mis, qu08 rulgavit Mediobarbus*

GERMANY Here the honors of Commo- I give the earliest of all military praises delivered, and indeed still with Caesar it would be, and from the merits of the father, as we feared to year y. C. 928. According to this the inscription of the letters, as from Dion we have given above, MAXIMVS is added, and conspire in this epic wait, but in the world it will never come he faces

SARMATICS Germanic titnlum a little later he followed, in order to prove it the year 5. C. 928 He ceased to exist in the year y. C. 981, at marble He stuck to his duties constantly.

BRITAIN Teste Lampridius ^) he was called a Briton by flattery 4fU9^ with the Britons also the emperor if they wished to exterminate against him, it was so for the reason of his contribution, I said for a year y. C. 987, in whose name is certain faith the first thing that I see is observed. He compares it still in the year y. C.

944 « se^ this sliding together with the name the bus of Marcus and Antoninus from the coinage but he became a firebrand marbles

INyiCTyS, which gave itself a name by he put on arrogance, nor this in- see, for even the month of February it is to deny the communion of this name suffering, as in whose life to the year y. C. We said 945 However, it is not read in the book.

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HERCYLES ROMANYS Abundant I have done this title for y years. C. 944* 9^5.

FATHER COUNTRY Advantage to year y C. 980 I saw Augustus at the same time mu8, at the same time the Father of the Fatherland and indeed beardless, that is, the year of the age Xy II. agent, with the help of father Aurelius op- to the rude man, who except in the last years of his reign cooked, with that boy, this sweet elo- I have already known it He shared the dew without credit.

AMAZON'S EXSYPERATOR that he also had names, he reports Dio ^) , of course that fur from the Amazon Marcia, this is what all men are far from would overcome, and he adds, the issue was so delightful then Commodus, so that, although other he would put, he would never abstain from these. You- the stature of Lampridius ^) , the same which I read • in the inscription of the Colossus, whom having taken away the head of the Sun (not, as Nero says) nis) accommodated himself, yerum aliicr he enunciates these names, calling it feminized^ namely by Amazdne, this gladiators it is a sword blade.

OLYMPiyS is said in the binls of the gods

a) Crit. Baron a4^ann. Chr. 18r» b) Chap. 8. c) L. 72 § 15* d) Chap. 17.

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I went out to Fiarduina as once Ha- drian

Tribumcia poesia$»

We said to the year Y. C. 980 ^ Com the mode of tribunical power by itself in the year that he had received it, but it was so very difficult for him I will reason that they have been repeated, as up to now the gift should not be repei^ed, by which it is in order will be redacted Atnos that difficulty ex We will consider the purpose in detail in this treatise.

The greatest swordsman.

I said to the year Y. C» 987, this de- in the year coined by Commodus the pontiff mention of the greatest cat. Yldeo ta- men, he should already be called pontiff max. in aryal marble, that is in the Marinian table XXXIL, consulbus Commodus lY* and C Aufidius Yictormus II. , who signed 986 the previous year. But obserTO also, in the same marble the titles of Commodus are to be told twice, and the former indeed, in a place without the additional title of P. H., who yet it is added in another place. £x which con- I begin, in the year Y* C. 986 this year Coromodo's honor came next then in the year of the coin, unless maybe argue because it depends, square* rium to have sent

emperor" first name

According to the double Lampridius teslimo-

nium, which in the Prolegotnenes to the gods I praised Commodus, Commodus with peace He was said to be the emperor of dle XXII. No* .Stamp Y» C. 939 « Tillemontius haec Lampridii yerba captures from tltulo impera* toris from Tictorils ^). Ycrum if that at least Aurelius the father from this day on the god would be called IMP. 9., when, however, I'm already leaning on the next year's tree tis still Tetussunm IMP.YIIL keep* For this reason, and with a plentiful supply let us have the year Y. C. 980 gods-, inqui* bus Commodus is used as a first name in and laurel on the head without ta- still in the title of Augustus, certain tI- is given, to be understood by Lampridius, Comrao* while at the same time his father was in iroperium then, and already, he began to be called the emperor still delayed for some time Augustus Toca- ball The marbles conspire with the gods sincere Thus in that which by Oderic Donatus received the most erudite tire and it is of the year Y. C. qSo, it is read: IMP. Slaughter L. AYRELIO COMFORTABLE COS. still suppressing the title of Augustus. For the same reason, Antoninus Piusinus was the first with his gods he prefixes the title IMP. , though Augustus was not yet. What Commo- dus in primls auis anni 980 numis iHo he abstained, his probable cause will be which indeed here honors him on the last day of the year the preceding decision was made, but somewhat to later establish through the dark states shore, and taken into use, whose exam- We are afraid of many things. Certainly the same Commodinum was signed at the beginning of the year they also withhold the power of the Irlbunician at which time she decorated him

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b) to Thcs. Murat; p. 171

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it was established. On the other hand, as Aurelius said, I5L, was Com-

dia Commodus the emperor's title in- moduslMP.IL, quotemporeillelMP.X.,

to have used the first name ptar, while im- here the emperor III. , as a god, but prove

It would be said that the executor was from the Yictorias, because he was generally not of faith, and was not perfdnctorily described

Father Marcus also observed. Then they clearly teach, "Tillemontius, because

The stock has very rarely set the honor of Mediobarbus, and his loyalty to the monsters

Commodities he had, entangled with traps and on every side

^ ♦ ^ saw *) whom he would have avoided if you had less*

the emperor from the victors. a set of submissions. Add Page, at any time

When the first Augustus, with the fi-Mediobarbus, nlexus corrupts everything.

Marcus shared the story, the same also in what years, and from what victories

He shared this title in the annals of the war related by the victories

He made the onion. Qnare at the same time, you will find a stam*.

• PRBTIVM.

€ommati9 Bomani:

Aorei RRR

Golden max. mode «•«^». •••• RRRR. For the gold coins of Commodus, see the arlicum above p. /35*

Silver ••••• C^

^ Aeneas max. mod • • • « • RR*

Aeneas I and II of the form «• ^ •««••• C.

Aeneas III. forms ••••..•.••• O. Foreign commas:

Argentei of the Greek cities RR.

Various bronze modules •••••••••• C.

Colonies C.

Alexandrini • ^ • • • . C

CHISPIN^.

Brntia Crispina Brntii Praesentis daughter of the congiario <^). It was done that year

^gente M. Anrelius married with Com- Y.-C. ^So, they teach the god Commodus, and

it has just been joined to the celebrated wedding of him-Dio ^). Caught in adultery

privatorum plo, and given to her, the pomodas first disturbs the palace, then

a) in Aurelius note 20 b) Crit. Baron to the year* Chr. 175 and elsewhere* €) Ca- pitolin inM» Aurel. c. 28 d) L. 71, c* 33.

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Relegates the goats"), and finally inlei-fi- at the same time as Lucilla, presumably around the year Y. €• ^36 , to col- ligiturexDlone ^}« He was matrimonish fruitful, certain records do not com- they prove for it is permissible to doubt about God lide, which in Commodus in the year 5. C* 934, and the inscription: LIBEKI. AVG, re- cilat Mediobarhus

A. CRISPIN A^ A VGVSTA. or AYG. in the form of his metal.

B. CRISPIN AVG. IMP. COM- THE WAYS AVG. in AE. max. mode and AE 1. (Mu8. Farnes. and Mtts« You kill.)

C. CRISPIN AVG. COMMOD AVG. in AE. /. (Vailant.)

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As lit. A DIS GENITALIBVS The burning altar AR. (Mus. Caes.)

Genital, or in the ninth G^Va/^ qaod has the ability to generate, or communicates Crispina then plowed this field He dedicated to the Genitals, whom he preease generation, and to help the fruitful exit* he esteemed him who used to listen to the executioner Terint is not agreed. Gods born to me Ausoniua also resides ^) :

Jupiter, meanwhile, together with the push of the genitals Copcilius forces the upper part of the rehusAchi-

vts.

and Sieof ysveSiKiW incidentally mentions Li-

banius ^). Plutarch mentions the god cysfsBy^tog^ genitaliSj who im- parents pursues prayer ^). The same elsewhere ^sag «yff»fi9Xiap coi^joins with Ssotg 7r««- T^utOi^ 0 f quos ad annum V. C. 9^7 of- They say that the gods Caracalla and Getae Melis- saridln at Aristaenetus, with his children doret operam, Tt^o^Yivx^TO Tracri rotg cys» yffSX/o/g Beots'^ rogavii all generations gods 8).

* • * CRISPIN AVG. IMP. COM-

MODVS. AVG. Germ. 8 ARM.

The head of both.

VOTA- PVBLICA. etc. ^

Of this god of the greatest forge, to others

in which Crispina was with Commodus

it is associated, act in numts Commodus ad

annum V* C» qSo..

The rest of Crispina's gods will do nothing from the Augustan coins then, xxlCerem^ Concordia^ Diana Ludferamy lunone Lucinamy Vene-- rem^ etc^

Numf of commas to the foreigner

Crispina, the god of the free cities of Grae* of them, then <;0/i9i»fiiniii»ju8ta numerohar they are The right name Brutia tract a to his father Brutius, who not a few Greeks came forward written: BPOTTIA, or BPOTTTIA KPICniNA, qaornmplures diditHay* miuS' ^).*

a) Lamprid c. 5. Dio L. LXXIL § /f. b) I. c. c) on Periocha TV. Iliad d) Tom. He declaims. XLL p.879» ;e) in ff^ixy pag. 7(J& D ^Q^ ^SitrtSatfi. g) L.Lepist.igu b) Tom. U. p. 30

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PRETIFM

C&mmaiis Rome»i:

Before • « * • RRtL

Argeniei ««•••«•* C.

Silver max. of the form «• BRR«

Bronze I. and IL forms • • • • C

Aeneas III. forms ••••**«•••• O.

Pilgrims of Cammais:

Tribium Graecarnm, et coloniamm • • « « • B*

Alexandrini « • « • • RRR*

P. BELFIFS PERTINAX

£i country Lignria » birth only tore Capitoline Tilla Tuesday in Apen- nino, by Dion Alba Pompeia *)• Father Helritts Success of Thin Fortunes and a freedman in the trade of wood in Liguria He practiced tation, and the same etfil applied ^). This to his father, and in fortune He was born so thin in the year Y* C. 879 KaL Augustus <^). Why was he called Pertinax? Indeed, they bring the Capitolinus <^), €t Victor «), but which are placed among the toys left with an illiberal labor Yacayiti was the first to study literature in his country He soon gave the name of the army, and rein Parthia, Britannia, ^Noric's good deeds he was recruited by Marcus among the senators, then the praetorium, and finally he was given the consulship «st 0 1 ^^ whose time he was born 1 and he acted absent 0), It is not liquid. Right under Com- only Britain, and from time to time Africa, from

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he was thrown into Rome, and prefect of the city (h) he was confounded, even though he was in his office he should preside in a holy and whole manner, having been approved yet he was the worst emperor, from whom colleague in his last consulship and one last of Titus in the year Y. C» 94-5 Consul II himself was admonished. >). With this on Kal. lan. snb night with con- Happy the prefect of the jury, and He chose the chamberlains of the grarene hour and they should look around sober, which I am" in the same night still An obstinate commander of the nrbis what happens, unconscious (for falsely con* It is suspected that the Capitol was aware of the murder. nss k) , and openly declares Julian ^ , they came, and he hesitated for a long time, and he was sick finally persuaded first into the camp, then they bring forth from into the world, from which for the sake of The hatred of convenience, and the cause of merit taste between happy and sincere

a) L. LXXnL %. 3. b) Capilolin* c* 1 and 3. c) Ibid. c. i. calendar Viodob.

d) in Pertin. under he enters e) iu Epitome. f) Capitoline c. 2. g) ibid. c. 3. h) €•• pitolin c. 4. i) ¥• Fastos, and Gi-uterum pag. LYL 4» k) Cap 4i 1) inCaesarlb.

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Matlones greets * Soon the thing to be done He began to recall his intentions plinam, to correct one's behavior, to cast out informers, to consult the treasurer exhausted, but he himself was the first to be thrifty and tor, and example. But this very thing eraC, because the Praetorians, whom He held the desire of the Commodian ranty, ofTendit, whose part suddenly he rushed into the palace, and the prince niltale opining yulneris to death completes V. Kalend. April V. C. 946. At the people and the fathers killed such a Tirtu- tifl Timm, and the time necessary for him took it most unworthily, and it was evident that this a little later, when referring to God* to count the number of rums, and later, cnm Sererus his yirtutum memory P(0r- He suffered himself to be called a fool, in honor of his memory. Yide Dion, Herodianus, Capitolinus

Yxor Tiiiaa^ of whom, and to his children below

F. C. 9A6. P. X. 193.

C^BS. AVG. TR. P. COS. IL P.M.

Q. Soiio Falcone^ C. luU Erucio Clarocos.

K. IMP. Slaughter P. Helv. Pertain AVG* I received a laureate in AF. AB in AE. 11. of the rays

B. IMP. Slaughter P. Helv. per-

TINAX AVG. I took the bait in AE. max. mode to him AE L U

Be lii.A. or B. DIS CVSTODIBYS. MuUer 8ian$d.gw

barnacle^ s. eomucopia AR. (Uu9# Caes.) AE. I. (Vaill.)

The statue of Fortune stands by, at- that as Tariae from the Romans Fortuna, Tariis- that they were cultivated by appeals, which Plutarch pursues the following: all in the name of the goddesses in this they mean a god whose protection he is Stubborn in the way of government commeBdat*

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" Infertility. DIS GENITORIBVS Cybele insulted him road d. I was going out on the altar I'm a little boy, instead of a little boy's feet I will cut him off. A£.L(BaI- dini at Vaitl. Tom. II.)

He also commends himself to the superior gods Pertinax, of whom Cjbelen is the only one and the greatest god, Tulgoappellatamproponit * Standing pnel- the game will undoubtedly be one of their number of whom she deserves to be called the progenitor.

♦ ♦ ♦

No. iii. A.

lANO. It preserves wool double-breasted d. I will gasp. AR. (Mus. Caes.)

the wool is more conservative than Pertinax He calls his own, and he could not from this to be infected by Tidcri, since he himself pore, in which the year opens, impe- He wished for something, which he did not The doubts of the bed of these tjpi cause Tidetor.

• ♦ \

Be Ui B.

BOOK AVG. TR. P. COS, IL 8. C. Impe- raior sitting in the counsel of the divine * the gods AE. L (Vaill. Mus. Christinae.)

a) of Fort Rom.

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As Ut.A. LIBEBAL AVa TB. P. C08. 11. St. C. Liberality standing. AE. II. (M113. Christian vats.)

Donatira, and congiaria, which Com- he had promised to pay off Perlinacus, reports Capitolinus <^), but more below definitely, he gave the people of He had promised the praetorian a hundred noses I would have given twelve thousand dollars

sen **)•

"

Ft lit A You were free. CIVIBVS. Mtdier standing d. the ticket of St. Comucopiae. AB,. (Mus. Caes.) Note the inscription, but the sense is prone, cities abolished by Commodus tjrannide li- having restored his freedom. But it is more difficult an epigraph with a type that generally frees it is litigated, to settle. It is given here averse to be told only to Pertinacas libe- reality, of which in the preceding verse, ed which is so much more popular with the people, since you are no longer pressing tjrannide but when they were finally freed, it yielded to the citizens.

* • *

Ft lit. A. MIND. WASHING A woman standing d. crown^ s* spear. AB (Mus. Caes.)

And the singular treasure of Caesar mum, and for a long time unknown to other museums, another late model from the museum d'En- nery product. had the mind of Boma* temple, dedicated to Hanni "Bale Bomanus," reports Livius <:), and Plutarch also remembers but dedicated by Aemilius Scaurus, who

He lived at the time of the Cimbrian war Cicero ^), S. Augustinus 0* Votaelquot* Ovidius 6)| and indeed in the Capitol YI. that mon conspiring with the calendars of Venus, and MafTeiorum The praise of the Mind added to any old record perish, though you judge easily I am understood by Pertinace, who with to demand all things according to the laws of reason, He says that he is different from his own institution A convenient scntire, whose whole life pcr- the argument of insanity was stupid, and by which the commanding Mind really came to pass I am, that of the false triumph of Cupid Ovid sings ^) :

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A good mind is led by the hands behind the back twisted Etpudor^ etcastris quidquidAmori^ object*

To which add that of Propertius') :

A good mind, if you are a goddess, I am yours sacred gift*

Well done, Proper! indeed it is which Cicero affirms in several places losophus, that the mind is the prince of the soul a part of the mother, and nothing more divine in the mind and valuable to man or to nature or whom he had given. to praise Tibullus gave the theton to Ceres.

I did not try to tempt any man He was bold enough to teach the sacred rites of the goddess.

a) Chapter 7. b) Chapter 15. - c) L. XXII. 10. 11. and 23. 31. d) of Fort. Rom. p m. 318. e) of Nat. dcor L. II. 23 and L. III. 36. 0 ^e Civ. of God L. IV. c. 21. g) Fast Lib. 6. 241. h) Love. L. L elcg. IL v. 3 l. i) L. lU. choose 24. v. 1 9. k) L. UL clcg. 5 v. 7.

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Be lit. A. and B. OPI. DIVINE. TR. P. COS. 11. A woman Medene d. spikes AY AR. AE. L (Mus. You kill.)

yidimofl in Antoninus to the year y« C. 893, however, in which the epigraph: OPI. AVG. , and again: A woman eating d. ha" let it be 9. The resources of the senses complex It can first be understood as the name Ops 8atumi conjurer, whose Rome had been the temple in region VIII. witnessed by Vic- tor: Aedis Opis ei Saturni in the village of Luga- rio, of which Cicero also often mentions when the house was plundered from it by Antonius seven thousand times IIS. it is complained that £bi a lul. Caesar, in the use of planned war He was separated from the Parthians «). He remembers her also the marble of Gruteri^): LOCVS* ASSIGNMENTS AEDI OPIS AND SA- TVRNI It can then be named Opis in- I understood the abundance of all things, which bea- so, safe and convenient Titain ef- he does, which he certainly does not enjoy, he who is oppressed. And in this every sense Opem Ro- Cicero testifies that he had a temple c), and his own seems to have been an ara, which Sxk region item VIII. described as follows bit Victor: (^'s and Ceres with the sign ^oriumni f since it is coupled with Ce- rere, whose progeny was Terashominisopes establish However, if Macrobius audimua ^) , Ops in the latter sense and it is only an earlier effect; for He said: "I will give him Opemiain's grain." those who find the bushes are believers, — £i I will call the earth the help of whose human help They are looking for food and work

by which fruits and crops are born. Elsewhere Ops Macrobius Consivia is called that is to say, by fixing «). Plautus Ops opw ienia is the mother of Iots 0* Tatis are easily explained by the types in the book as well. Antoninus, which Perlinacius inscribed tis OPI In the former a woman sitting ma- does it apply to the head, known as Securita- you imagine what wealth they give birth to; in al- the woman of earth holds the spikes, of course The divine resources of which had a special interest in Pertinacus, it may be allowed to continue With this god We will properly connect the address that you gavit Gruterus e) :

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OPI. Divine. AND Fortunae

ORIGINAL SACR.

IMP. CAESAR HELVII

You are persistent. AVGVSTL

V. D. D.

To be added and the second from the calendar mar- moreo Amiterninus, in which it is read as follows to IV. that Aug. WEEK THAT DAY THE DAY OF THE ARAE CERES MOTHER AND OPI AVGVSTAE EX VOTO SVSCEPTE CONSTITVTAE SVNT CRETICO ET LONG. COS. which is known in the year 5. C. 760. And on the same day rium Capranicum : FEBIAE ARAE THE WEALTH AND THE CHERRY IN VIGO IVGARIUS Constituent ^VNT.

Ft. iii. A. PON. M. TR. P. C0S.il 8. C. Woman sitting d spikes AE. IL (Mus. Caes.)

n lit. A.

•) To Altic. L. XIV. ep.14 L. XVI. ep.14 and in the Philippi here and there. b) Pag.XXVI.3 c) dc Nat. I owe L. U. 23. d) Salurn. L. L c. 10. e) Ibid L. III. c. 9. f) Ci* star Act. no. sc. L V. 39-g) Pag. 254 4.

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Providence GOD COS. 11. Women stand to the right, a ball radiated in the air He stretched out the pendulum. AY. AR. (Mus. Caes.) AE. I. (Queen of Sweden)

As lit. A. PROIDENTIAE- DEORVM. COS. II. A standing woman turned both hands to the glo* boomin air pendulum ^ but not ratUatum^ - stretches out AE. II. (Mus. Caes.)

ProTidence frequent already infle ab I mention Augustus in the coin. Tjpi for the first time fuerearai lightning, eagle take it seriously lios' to designate it generally a useful one, who is the earth of the world, or that it is an image of the world. Pliny *): The form of it (the world) in the form of a world €^ having been resolved to be grouped, the name in the first place and the consent of the mortal world ap^ in him of the petitioners, but also the arguments of the Centuries and Ovidius *») : The land of the ball of monkeys. This is how a group of people around the world given permission by the gods to provide food for them indicates, and this lest they often carry it with their hands, and often lay it down Tictoriola, and in Christian times cross, and lest that simple group of intellects is carried, sometimes surrounded by zones, which correspond to the heavenly zones, as in the dcnarii of Mussidius Longi. This group female genius or laid on the ground dio, Tel designates the bacillus, which is the type access, or, as generally in Pertinaci it is only fixed on the ground, from above Tidetur received the message with outstretched hands tare, and indeed often with rays, as a heavenly understanding of monos*

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Uncertain Ancients*

century FRVGIFERO Caduceus three spikes AR. (Vail.)

Annona has carefully provided tinacem, Capitolinus testifies ^), and of the matter going to the sea for the sake of grain It is related to God d).

Ft lit. A. and B. VOICE DECADES TR. P. COS. IL Jm- a veiled performer standing d. bowl of hawk* makes a sacred pod. A V. AR. AE. I. (Vaill. Mouse You kill Theop.)

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They are understood to be a yota of infinite deccnnio to his successful career

Divus Stubborn*

Persistent from the successor of Julian to another honor in addition to magnificent funerals because he was not pursued. But after he was deserted by thousands, pet the senate and the people were related to the gods. A ScTcro Pertinacus, the son of his father's flamen he became a member of the Marcians, what is it? M. Aurelius cared for the sacred things, and the Hevians were diclK Additi Circenses , and the empire nata- lis, but those who were later removed so, however, that they might remain genethlic, ifTC genitalia ®). Cerimoifias in these conse* used by the ScTcro in the formalities of creation Copiously describes Dio autopta ^

♦ ♦ *

DIWS PERT. PIVS It is obvious

Bare head.

ETERNITY The sign of Pertinaeus in

a team of elephants. AE. m. m. (Vail*)

The epigraph of the ancient will be explained by Vic-

tor s). Of course, to the consecrated Pertina

a) H. N. L. n. § 2. b) Fast. 6. 269. c) Chap. 7. d) L. LXXHL f g. «) pitol. c. 15. Spartan in SeTcro c. 7. 0 !-• 74 § 4. g) in the Epitome.

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he said, to the rock, to the failure of the rock iomfaisse: KtinmSf we feared no one. PATRI PIO^ patrisenatus^ the father of all the good. De these things to God •) : Severus commanded, where is his golden chariot of the dead vehereiut m Circum.

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reverse badem* Consecration. They commanded the eagle group. AY (Reg. Gall. tette BeauFais.) AB. AE. L (Moa. CaesO

Another^ but typerogL AV# (Pelle-

rin SuppL III. p. 119.) AE. I.

(Mus. Caes.) Tells PelleriDias in a letter to Khel- lias given, he gave himself this golden Pcrtinaci name from the bishop of Babylon where did not pollute, unless you count Lu- XY*

The same reverse" faith EXERCISE Two right-handers The legionary eagle insists on the leaders of the flock things AR. (Gessner ex mus» Ffau.)

The number of foreign commas.

The Nami of the free cities are very rare. Pi*usae Bithynia insignia bronze I the Caesarian museum displays the forms aeneom IL of the form of the Tomes of Moesia to kill the Vaiilantians, and the rose of Christ nae The rest were published by the Yaris, because they were less the integrity of the country is uncertain. Another 1 the form of Aeni Tfaracia is brought forward in the Catalog d^Ennerj, but of cojusfide I have little doubt, but I said in his city mis. Another of the same city, but less

cerXumf because epigraphen mancsm offerty given by Vaillantius from the museum of Camps.

Colonies never had money from him Vaillantins denies the view in his de f 0* loniis work

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Alexandrian qoQ and very rare, qoos Tide at the Vaillants, and in the museum of Ca^ i'm going *

Noa passing by this gem Opej*is peregrin leyus, and explain in his excellent manner* yit^). She shows the head of Pertinacus lau«* AIK registered liability. , and she was attached to him two heads juxtaposed, one of which is mu- hare, written near TIT. , the other boy rile in the midst of these, an urn of games, in where the letters XP , above KAflGTil- Aeina, hell EAOTIA. Hereby ttnax dicitur HlKaiog ^ lustus ^ quodelo- you will give him public notice. TfT they are the daughters of Tilian's wife, and the childish head is the son of Pertinacus, de which will be done in the mother. They are taught in advance 'therea, in HelviiPertinaci's honor with* Helvia's contests had been instituted. Shaving a gem at Sardis Lydiae, probanjt 4x XP , to whom \n^\ Chrysanthina in" they are said to be celebrated in this city as usual, as it was said elsewhere.

Father of the country

Of this name Capitolinus ^) : /Vi- every day on which Augustus was ap^ pellatus^ also called patrispairiae nomenrece^ it pits Since Pertinax in no way boc he uses the title, it is very similar,

a) L. 75 4. b) B. L. Tom. 26 p- 486. c) Chap. 5. (Fol riL)

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natu qaidcm csse decrelam, but from Pcr- tinace bonoinim exeinplo di- wide, nor do I add to what Capi- 'tolinasy received, Soon in Tiiana vi-

We will decide, not everything which senates grew up, it was immediately proved that it had been prince The father of the country is called in mar- more Tarraconensis at Gruterain *)•

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Roman commas:

Golden ..«••••«•••««• IIRR«

Silver • BR*

Aenei max* mod. «••••••••• RRRR*

Bronze I. forms ••• ••• •.«••• RRR*

Aeneas II. of the form •••••••«••• R^

Aeneas III. forms •••••••••• 0«

Commaiis pilgrims:.

We have dealt with these a little above.

FLAVIA TI TIA NA

Daughter of Flarius Sulpicianus, whom Perti- Nax was moved to his place by command he had made the governor of the city ^). on the same day As her husband Augustus was called, Au<* he said he tasted it, but did not admit it let Pertinax be decided, since he did not want it the honor of this woman nae openly marked by lust <^). He shot survived her husband ^), but by which death she died rit, incompertura

Children £x Persistently he had a son, and a daughter with that surname of her father He would say Caesar when he was old, but not just that his father had no reason to answer, fu- Caesar's tower

which he brought up in the palace, and commanded, as previously, it was like a private game to die ^* Killed from time to time by Caracalia Herodianus reports, and Spartans, that him for having slain Geta in mockery Geiicum Maxim had said f).

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Of this class Titian's god is not ex* they stand, however, within a short time rium extant in the name of Scantilla's wife Did. the successor of Lulian, but also the daughter of these Clear Rome struck • Lack of hujas request the cause from Perlinace himself, who, uC

a) page 100 1. b) Capilolin. in Pertin. c. 13. Dio L. 773 7* c) Capitol. I. c. chap. 5. and 13" Dio 1. c. Lornandes, Euseb. in Chron. d) Captain 1. c e) Capitol. right More Ct 6- 13- Dio L. LXXIII. § 7 f; in Caracalla and Geta.

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senatns consnlto ie conferring to his wife Au« the title of taste intervened, so neither honor re^monetaiues indulged

^ Numismatic commaiis peregrinus.

From the cities of Liher, if Thessalonica demas, c«}us a coin from unused Pfau cites Gesnaeus, one of Mytilene Lesbi in the bright city that has hitherto stood He put the tilian in the palm of his hand. Here they are:

TITIANH. ceBACTH. Bujw

head MTTIAHNAIXIN. PerHnaxequespaci He made a habit of it. AE. L (Hayrn*. T. Lp. 264. edit* Yindob. Mouse You kill.)

In these Mjtilenes gods, and also whom I will soon produce, my Alexandrian the rum of Tideri should be polished, Tiliana should be called Augu^ when, however, as we have said, today the honor of women by a public decree of the senate Let Pertinax be ready. Why the province cials or to make it Augusta t^^oKvj^^ TixQi>f^ com nOn dttbitarent, which Augu-

she would be his wife, soon to be born in Augustus. he will be adorned, or the gods will sign him Tere soon after hearing the counsel of the senate, and before it was annulled by Pertinace * And this, or a similar reasoning they must be corrected say, when something else from the Komana coin, and by the unanimous consent of historians cisTnt, more of which is exemplified by this work we have seen pla, as with t. g. British Claudius £lius, who dignified Caesarca he never went beyond that, in his world the decision of some to make J^uguslum,. as in hu)us we said money.

The colonel of God is longed for, Alexanarinos to issue two Yaillan- tius, (Nunu Grec.) and Morellius, (in Spec.) these also with the title C€- Bacchus. Another city of the Sea of Egypt Maffeius removed, in whose direction MA- PEILTXlN.L. A. A ship with a spread sail ^)^ But the judge testifies that he is eloquently spurious grave Bartholomew

PRBTIVM^

Roman commas : * • •

Commatis pilgrims Mytilenes and Alexandrians

RRR.

DIDIFS IVLIANVS

To him the father of Petronias Didius SeTcrus, I disagree with him, that in this storm he himself

His mother was Clara Aemilia, and his grandfather was born in Rome

ternus Insuber of Milan <^). According to the coming out of the lanuario Y» C. 886. Rebas

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while the account of Dios, whom Marcus advanced in other conduct through age

a) Anliq. Gauls p. 118. h) Mcm. B. L. Tora 26 551

c) Spartan

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imperanie rcpressU, qm ad Bim ha- they were running, he earned the consulship of Caucus, under hence Pertinaci succeeded in ruling Africa returned to Rome as prefect he acted as a police officer rabat Fertinax b). This from the Praetorians slain, when they closed their camp in the clear from the walls to sell command to him with a voice, those who would offer more promilterel, men as many as there were, the most famous ignored her averting the threat, at the instigation of his own people his St. Julian runs up, and outside the val- The light of the licorice does not crumble with the Flavius Sulpicianus, the father-in-law of Pertinacus, who within the wall a battle for the government oblu- lit. True, when he bargained more luUa- but, having descended the stairs, was received into the castle, and recognized by the emperor, and the praetorian He brought the rum packed with his hand into the senate is But the people no less slaughtered indi- gna Pertinaci, how recently purchased im- I perished, irritated by the indignity of opening it for the first time with convictions the new Augustus, then and he began to throw stones, and to control himself, the less Pescennium The black of Syria was then imposed upon me He will submit to the government. This people with aversion, having learned that he was indeed Augustus Pescennius suffered to be proclaimed by his own but when the coward began to persist, Se- the true governor of Pannonia look at the will of his people iiivadit, and things compared with all things Iier enters Ilalia with vigor. Re understood that Julianus Severus He ordered the three to be judged by the senate, but he finds them ready to resist suits, parties, what, how much money was in government procurement

He put off paying, partly because he was happy free time, to meet the hard sea they would not dare to tell the truth. Strictly speaking the city's real danger to the thousands indeed he obtained his plans from the senate to be said to be a co-participant of the government but soon after they all turned to Sevcru souls sent by the fathers as a soldier from all the bus descritning in the palace was cut down on L or II. Monday 5. C. 946 from the opinion of Til- Lemontii ^). The body of Severus his wife Scantillas was returned for burial, and in the monument of the great-grandfather via Lavicana ^ seasoned He lived according to Dio we are 60 4 months - as many days, ex which he commanded on the 66th day. It was He is the most dangerous of the law, among all agreed Spartan thrift, thousands morcs, and other virtues in him let him say, but God himself is the witness of whose vileness, then and Herodian covered with vices far away Surely he was not ashamed, by no means as an example of his dishonor, a purchase to take control of the state, and to offer money, as much as slare by itself, nor by exhausting ae- it could be rare, enough in itself and the dignity which he obtained, and what is

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Wife of Manlia Scaniilla, mentioned below.

F. C. 946. P. X. 193. TR. P'COS. PM

A.

B.

IMP. KILL M, DID. IVLIAN AVG. Head washed in AV. Att.y radiated in AE. II. IMP. Slaughter M. DID. SEVERE

•) Spartan b) Victor in Caesar. c) Tom. UI Part I. p. 36-

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ITLIAN. AYG. I took the laurel in AE. /.

I agree MILITARY MuHer siaas with

with two military standards^ AY. AR. AE. I. II.

(Mus. Caes.)

P. M. TR. P. COS. A woman standing d. gu-

bemaculum, s. cornucopiae AY AR. A£.

I. II. (Mu8* Caes.)

DIRECTOR ORBIS A veiled emperor

Bians, fin aeneis sedensj d. group* AY

AR. AE. I. (Mus. Caes.)

These alone are the proofs of the faith of the Lulian gods not Another, but who is in the middle part of himself it belongs to Scantilla, in its currency I will recite From all his money alone last name by email TOR The memorable orbs, which now first met, by a few from time to time re- Touched It is easy to explain does not need a cation.

Foreign comma names*

That kind of god adhac~ not obseryat, except that they had recently gone to Sestinius Tulgavit, one of the colonies of Apamea Bi- Thynia *), Aphrodisias Cariae, and Alexandrian ^). But the man of all things I think that faith is overshadowed. Yide, what I said in the gods of Alexandria Achilleus tjranni <^).

Names and titles.

Severus Commadus

Severus received the noroen from his grandfather, and pro- To, as the Spartan says ^). But why is he

which he has before his hands, from a distance he asks, with the same witness and father ScTe- should the country be called? He adds in the same place: when Didius Lulianus was appointed consul he would proclaim in court that he had suggested Lulianus: add also Severus, which you have foretold it was like a habit. That name is omni- The inscription on the bronze bus of I. form is read.

It is convenient to put the name of Lulian before the Torians moved from affection to their prince very similar to rice ^). His mention from the gods are standing surrounded by men get ready In the number of these if Mediobarbum you will think that Lulianus you will have a way

Pius

ETCe^^i; it is said in the Alexandrian numo, who TuIgaTit Sestinius, but about whom Tide my judgment in this fleet of numbers. Of the god Aphrodisias with the same ti* We have done the above.

Consul

lulianus test all the gods faith COS it is simply written; for A Mediobardian coin inscribed COS. 11. I think it should be neglected. However, from Spar- by the testimonies of the tians, which in lulianOi et ScTero matters, Julian three times, or at least The consul proceeded twice. Tillemontius, who this doubt, but unsuccessfully to expediency nature, to accuse in this place as well as in others often, the writers are forced to yawn, whose remaining works are in the Angu- they compose the stam f).

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a) Sir Tom III. p. 13. b) Litter Tom. IV. c) Vol. IV. p. 96. d) Gap. 7. e) Dio L. LXXIIL § 12. Herodian. f) ^^^^ ^- ^^ Later

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MANLIA SCANTILLA

Father of the country*

He also received the name of his father's country says definitely of Julian the Spartan *)• Sin therefore, why do we call this title constant

triple neglect? We also fear, Ca- Pitolino, Spartiano, Lampridius in tem- pore captured hujut praise when namia not to throw in

PRETIFM

Ntmi eommatis Romani:

Golden BRR

Silver RR

Bronze L and IL forms ••««*••«•• R.

Bronze form IIL •••••• O.

Commatis peregrines • • • O. or tnspected.

MANLIA SCANTILLA

Yxor, and by her had a daughter He also betrayed Ittlianus, Herodianus, but that his name was Manlia Scantilla to this Didiae Clarae mute And she entered the palace to have passed the foreboding nens extermination, says the Spartan ^). But Herodian was persuaded by both He betrays the liana, as a project of control would seize Each Augusta was called lala by the Spartan author <^), and agreed they belong to both gods. He was buried by them lulian, we have spoken of his deeds. Didia's daughter Clara, of whom below.

MANLIA SCANTILLA AVG. This is the head. lYNOt QUEEN. Veiled goddess standing d.pa-

teram^ s.hastam^ for the feet of a peacock. AY (Vaill.) AR. AE. L and IL (Yaill. Mus^ You kill Theopolis.)

Other ayersas in this Augusta mo- nets are not found hot, but hybrid

The same reverse. P. M. TR. P. COS. S. C. Woman standing d. gubemaculum, s* cornucopiae AE. I. (Gessner.)

No one will yide, in the husband's rights that he had merely married his wife Scantilla. But yice's husband hangs a little knot, while he indicated to himself that he was a spouse yit. For there exists his deity, in whose on the reverse it is read, lYNO. Hegina, as you stature cl. Beauvais <*).

a) Chap. 4. b) Chap. 3- c) 1. c. d) Hist. abreg T I. p. 27

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PRETTY

Roman commas

Golden RRRR*

Silver ♦ RRR.

Bronze I. form ••••'•••««• RRR^

Bronze 11. form RRRR.

Aeneas III. form •••••••«•• RR«

Foreign commas • •••••O^

BIDIA CLARA

Didius Luliani Aug. and Scantilla's daughter about which to reveal anything of memory reteres, above together with his mother I am legal. Cornelius was undressed by his father He suddenly took the place of Sulpicianus made governor of the city *). I was killed by my father soon the name of Augusta was taken then *».

DIDIA CLARA AVG. Hujm

head cheerful TIME. A woman sawing d. pah mae ramus, 8. common stock. A V* (Vaill.) AR. AE..L (Mus. Caes.) AE. IL (Theu- poles.)

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This is a perpetual arrears in the gods as follows:

same reverse* piety AVG. A woman standing at the altar to sacrifice AR.

Numum Gessner quotes ez Musco Pfau, whose adeoauthorials are very rare the right of a monument unknown to others to protect the faith.

Foreign comma names i

The only one of this kind described perish;

AHA, KAAPA. ceB, His head. KOINON. KTnPinN. Temple Fenc Rice Pap/tiae AE. I. (Mus. t^hristinae.)

This is a wonderful gift Harercampus in the attached commentary, let him not be unworthy of these proclamations, if only genuine. But I'm going to have enough ex- lamented his antiquity? in fact Mum scares the written word AHA. for AIA. tcI Ai^. manifestoadyersus spelling sin Then, unless he soon heard from Lulian leadership in the Cypriot factory pfope* It is thought that this deity, not Tydeus, was signed i He could have been on that island. Of course, a little after Lulian descended Pescennius Tici* Nae was then governor of Syria, and ab dedicated to this terror or Terisimil I rival the coinage of Clara from the Cjpriiis of Lullianus almost consistent, and the influence of Ticino Are you looking closely?

a) Sparlian. c. 3* h) Ibid ch. 8>

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PRETIFM. *Roman commas:

Golden •••«••••••«y«* BHBB.

Silver ••••••• BBR.

Aeneas I. forms *•••••••«•• BB.

Aeneas II. of the form BBBB^

Bronze forms IL and IIL ••..••••• O. Stranger commas.

Cyprians, true to you, as I said • • • • • Ynicns.

PBSCENNIRS NIOER.

C, Pescennii Nigri, a race of Aqnino origin nnda, whose guardian ayus acted. He himself born to modest parents, father Annius Fusco I mother Lampridia ^). After various military duties died with honors from Com- the consul having been declared red, and finally He was in charge of the Syrian army ^). Cae* so by the soldiers persistently, and knowing Lulianus, which through the execrable purchase He had not even taken over the leadership, for all Unseen, don't doubt the life offered to him by his legions to occupy the field <^). £t would have held it quietly, if by the Boman people tisset, who did not hesitate before Julian raising a cry for the Black prince and to depose Angst (^). of the people Idle with affection I want to miss of Tiochia, until the slaying of Lulian, Bo- and the mother to be held by Severus, and this one He heard that war was being prepared against him but prepare for all things to resist tis, Bjzantioy, and other cities of Asia,

and the straits of the Taurus were presided over by Ae* He went ahead with the army of Milianus, but I defeated this at Cyzicus and killed the other the return of the Aleans to the bay of Issia, where once in a place Darius with Alexagfidro M. con- He hesitated, and decided to try it with his rival which was the outcome of the battle, as published in kill the people on both sides a swifter flight would strive for the uplirate, but withdrawn by the death of Severian return The right head of Severus of Byzantium sent, and staked the town so that they put their persistence in resisting, displayed ^* And in this manner In the year 5, Nero ended the rule of the villains. C. 947* he was excellently trained in military affairs, and on account of the various arts with which the army He knows that he is still in office, from Jesus Severus in the price of habltus %) , in other manners fierce, and unbridled to every desire and the genus libldini ^).

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He had several children by his wife, whom Severus was closely preparing for war against his father

a) Spartan b) Spartan c* 4. Herodian. in earnest. c) Ibid. c. 1. d) Spartan. in Pescenn. and Scvero, e) Spartan. c. 2. Herodian. in Pertin. f) Dio L. 74 f. HcBodian. g) Spartan c. 3. h) Ibid. c. !•

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The Jews of Rome, however, were thus he would have them with the same honor as his own, When their father was killed, they were deported with their mother. Albinus soon rebelled and killed them all nna cnm mother What happened to his wife men, the Spartan reticences them, which 'in the way of narration, the author •). To be who that the Diet of Pescennia had been they would adhere to John. Of course the first Bau- delotius num Greek rulgayit in secret neCKeNNIA. HAATTIA N A. CeBACTH. *>). The rest, to whom it may be tjrpi, which is kept in Moses, disguised Tit» Narrates Baldinus <^), who appeared another, but Latin, in one part of which read: FISHING PLAVTIANA AV- GVSTA, in other words: CONCORDIA. P.R. but it was also discovered that the hand that Titius offered a modern letter. In Then the same opinion was also c1. Beauvais. forms Caesarea's museum, but this is evidently supported rio, it is read hence PESCENNIA. PLAV- TIANA. AVGVSTA, on the other side CLOD. AL^ BINVS. Slaughter AVG. IMP. S. C. enter the crown From this, then, the falsifiers this woman was married to Albinus. According to others Pescennia Plautilla had been the wife of Albinus, we shall live in this

^ notice to the gods of Pescennii Laiinus"

All the fish gods, even those who ad they became the mode of Roman currency, The comnMttis are certainly pei^egrins, and without doubt the signal to the prince of Antioch his tract of the city, in which .temporary

fixed the seat of government. For at what time he usurped the imprecation in the East, Rome Did held Julianus, soon Severus, a to whom, even if the people of the senate were not for themselves He would have had devotees, or he would not have been recognized in prindipatu colleague, or, qnod serious It happened that the enemy was also judged. Which the reason is whether there are bronze fish which gods were signed from S. C., and if so who perhaps you have been found, immediately unheard of you will condemn But when the emperor it was a right to gold and silver, and in any part of the world rip, soon from both metal in si- sign the coin with his hand runt, whose bright oxemplum in We saw Vespasian, and the same Pescen nius excmplo numos anreos argentes- which he ran with his image. Golden so far the only one found, below in the nu» We will publish the written agreement. All the rest are of silver, and with these also very rare, and therefore snmmo let them all be at a price, as many as are faithful Find published authors, describe, and it was decided to bring them together. to be observed they are all of cheaper manufacture, in* writing, ao letters s^pe wrong crushed and dislocated, whereupon he immediately perished they betray their grudge, and their soul, that the watcher is worth the effort I am, lest the propler of the fabric be soon deformed undeserved births of half-spurious gods let us object.

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F. C 94^.947. P. X, 193. 194. A. IMP. Slaughter C. FISHING BLACK

a) in Pescennius, and SeTero. b) Vtil. des voy T. II. p. 337. c) to Vaill. whether pi

^T. UI p. 28*.

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IVST. AVG. COS. II. Chapter law

rcaium ETERNITY AVG. Moon interspersed pianos AR. (Vail.)

Infertility. SAINT APOLLINUS naked jipollo let it be d, a branch of hay, and let it be cotton ^ leaning on AR. (Morelli Specim. lab. IX.) Here we openly honor Antioch he confesses; for there are 2 bronzes. for* like Teri Lulian, who apostatized diciturv, struck by age, in one of whom it is read: APOLLON SANCTO- in the other: GENIUS. ANTIOXENL Ni- among the chief gods of Anlio He was Apollo of Athens, of whom more will be said in these coins .egimu«.

j^niica^ ittceria. BONAE- 8PEL Stepping Hope. AR. (In vain.)

I published the same in the Catalog of the Cae Museum* sarei, but inscribed: GOOD. HOPE but here I lead him to restore religion, He was not compelled to repeat the judgment leria to^etug provided tndicia. After all GOOD. HOPE sa^pe in the gods of Severihoo it is read with the same number of signs, as nni- really certain «st , Severum and Nigrum the same very often in their currency usos, njequeidfortuito, sedde industma; for there are in it the insertions, which in the name of other emperors which you find. One rivaled the other let it be, and the Hope of Hope, the Event of the Event etc. having opposed it, it is difficult to fall. ci- I pray for good hope for the despair of all objects of the world *), and that Rome was po-

the altar of the Fortune of Good Hope, (Tu- X^S "Evehf^t^og) mentions Plutarch *>). Gruterus published a stone dedicated to BO- NAE. SPEL AVG ^). Head in front Vaillantius calls the boc a very rare god, yet what or what kind of thing it is, who modern epigraphs, for his institute re- ticks

B, IMP. Slaughter C. FISH NI-

GER. IVST. AVG. I took the law

guilty in others, ui iii. A.

GOOD EVENTS A woman sawing d. pay

the ram with the spikes (Mus. Caes.)

Numis are also similar in mo-

not Severus. Abundant good fortune

Ohm eximua in denarii the writing of the nation

good things

The ancient juiciness. Ceres FRVGIFERAE Let me be a woman d. spicasj s. Hasian AR. (Mus. Caes.)

The same is averse also in the gods of Se- signed around the same time

• * ♦

100 IMP. Slaughter FISHING BLACK 4-

STVS AVG. I took the laurel. CONCORDIA.P. P. Muiier standing d. Elia ^. double common stock Av. (Reg. Gall.) The only one here is the fish god nii« whom the scholar recognizes as genuine Boze, who put him in the museum of King Gal- he brought them, and into that precious city It is well commented <<) , quo I have known all the golden ones up to now tos« but modern all commas com-* mentions In the catalog of the museum d'£nner]r aureus also produced inscribed MO-

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a) ia Catiline. II. c. U. b) of For4. Rom. you L. Tom. XXIV. p. 105.

p. m. 323. c) Pag. 1075. 1. d) M«iu.

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NCTA AYG., but also hlc ibid clubs the ignominla of Lydei is noted *). Of the litigants P. P. juxta positls agetnr below to the beach PatriB pariae.

Mr. Imp. Slaughter C. FISHING BLACK AYG. Laureate head.

He is happy. TIME. double communion pious intermediate 9pica AB (Mus. Caes.) The same is averted even in the gods. true of this year

♦ * ♦

E. IMP. Slaughter FISHING BLACK 17S. COS. II. Laureate head.

HAPPINESS THE TIME Canisirumy from which the Mpica promise AR.* (yaill.)

F. Imp. Slaughter C. FISH NI- GER. 1 VST. A V. Laureate head.

FOBTVNAE. BE. in aliijt: REDVCI A woman sitting d. branch, «. community AB (Mus. Caes.) In others: Woman 9tans fL gubemacnlum^ s, comucopiae. Ah. (Pa-

Tin Num. irop.)

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G. Imp. Slaughter C. FISHING BLACK IVST. AVG. Laureate head. In others, as A.

VICTORY. IMP. TROOPS. trophy at the bottom of which two shields, and as many arms AI\. (Mus Caes. Vaill. LiebeGoth. num.) Morellius reads in a similar way: TROPAES A ^). In another, which is cited in the Catalog d'£n-* ncrjr, the yoke of the troop is absent, unless he escaped the injuries of the times.

Obverse epigraph until just ig- note t and yet in synchronis Severr nu- I met him too; from which liquid

it appears, as I have noticed above, that that as weapons are weapons, so also gods are gods opposed Q4ias was that victory, because than Black to set up the trophy and in- if he believed that he could boast of his life, branch Certainly not important rit, since there is none of it from the writers the factft mention, and all praise to it He continued to be more serious.

Ancient uncertain. 18 BEFORE ORBIS sitting wolfishly d. lightning I will gasp. AR. (Vail.)

The new address was again rejected, but as Seyer also in his monela it was sown Luppitcr president of the ancient world always trusted, and now also that one was acknowledged, when the other was brought he would decline to be under

Ancient uncertain. IVSfTITIA. AVGVSTI Mutier standing d. balance cornucopiae AR, (Vaill. Pembroke P. III. tab. 2S.)

Aversaexcognomine/Ei^/f suaptc flu- He said that the quad Pescennius was his own. wills, and of which thou art constantly boasted (« Of course justice was great from him so, the Spartan is a witness, who denied him that strangers had desired him, and to these mo* He reports that he brought his soldier

* #

Ft lit. F.

MARTL AVGVSTO Mars degree d.

spear trophy AR. (Mus. Caes.)

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Vtlit.D.

MARS INV. . ♦ / The same type. AR.

(Mus. com. a. Yitzai.)

•) Pag. 212. b) For example. where 9 c) in Pesccn. c. 8.

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j^htica ittcerta MARS VICTOR Mars marching d. parazonium^ s, trophy AR. (VailL)

A similar harvest of Sereri also of this year He invaded Namos.

♦ * ♦

n lit. c.

Minerva victory (sic) Goddess, ^tans a greater shield hastofn. AR. (Mus. You kill.)

Ancient uncertain. MINERVA Victorious. Goddess standing d. Victoriolam^ s, a spear with a shield. AR. (VaiU.)

As, E. Coins AVG. A woman standing d. balance" cem^ s. cornucopiae AR« (Mus« Caes.)

Ancient uncertain. PIETATL AVG. A woman standing at the altar he sacrifices AR. (Vail.)

Ft lit. A. and F. ROME. ETERNAL Rome sitting d. Victoriola, s. a spear for feet foot (Mus. Caes.).

As lit. Q. I was saved. AVG. A woman standing d. balancing cem^ s. community, AR (Mus. Caes.)

This yippus had been joined when in- writing: COIN. AVG., but err Tit minter, or negligence, or that the Greek man was Tocabulus Latini He did not understand the meaning of SAVED.

As lit. G. SALVTI.AVGVSTL Woman standing ^er- he grazes the sheep from the bowl, for the feet AR. (Mus. Caes.) As lit. Mr. GAME COMPANY I hope you will. AR. (Gcssner from the Pfau Museum.)

An unusual epigraph again, however.

which he had learned, in the money of Severus nbndtim appeared

• •

Ancient uncertain. VICTORY Victory shield from the trophy cppenso writing AVG. AR. (VaiU.)

As lit. F. VICTORY AVG. in alUs: VICTO- RIAE AVG. Victory marching. AR. (1 Aus. Caes.)

As E. VICTOR IVST. AVG. Victory marching. AR. (Mus. Caes.)

This letter has a double meaning. cit, first : VlCTORm I VSTt AVGir*// , presumably from the acquaintance of Justus and we have the gods of SeTcri in the same way in write: VICTOR SEVERE AVG. Al- third: VICTORm IVSTa AVG., for and there are the same gods of SeTer himself epigraph, in which of course I read it IVSTi, when you lost the surname SeTcrus never be profcssus, but IVSTa.

Stranger names

As the rarest suntnum of his Pescenni signed by his authority, and inscribed La- tine, so the gods of the city with its captc they surpass these by a margin in price. Of his kind circling here and there for profit the Tideas were brought together, by whose fraud such as ca» Let us, all those who have hitherto been antique dealers, some of which cost rites, were published, to be reviewed in this place I am pleased with the additional observations of the de^eornm whether with honesty or deceit.

He who until now has tried his faith they perished, in the past, when the Greeks they have the inscription AIKAIGC, not lOT- CTOC, and rightly so. For the same For example, all things must be commanded

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the names given in the gods of Oi*Aecis Gr$tece you will find* Sic dptimu» in h^trrro(^ Piui in EwcTfPiyf', Felix in Eurux>7^ clc. sky they grayed Most of the gods of Pescennia

En sjllabum nurumor Pescennii, pri- those who are innocent, then those who are suspected at least not to condemn the judgments of the learned at random Tidear, they are to be had.

Numismatics:

ATTOK.KAicAP. V. necKe

NirPCO. A. Laureate head. nPONOIA. ©ECON. Spread eagle standing in the wings of the club. AB roax mode (Beg. Gaul.)

This remarkable statue was found in Aleppo

it fell into the hands of Wilhelm Falkner An- gli, from whom Yaillantius him, that he himself stature ^), price 30 Lewis golden abstuHt It's not just nothing oflert, that rel yiros very delicate fa- ofTendere could be of interest, but also after the judge of the most illustrious men, who it is better to approve this all, nnl- He feared a great deal of criticism. Into it He commented very clearly. de Boze <^), yerumineo from viroeruditodissentio, that He thinks that it was sealed to Tyre. I would rather of Antioch, as I have discussed abundantly in the month daughter of this city cap. II. Solitary A of the anterior part of Aixa/oy, it marks lustum^. I have found another publication almost like it Arigonium in Numis published in 1759* •

ATT. K. r. nec Nothing

AIK. Laureate head" KAICAPeiAC. rePMANlKHC. you are Cttlapius, In another: Serpent. AE. III. (Vail. No. Greeks.)

Germanicia Caesarea Commagenes city Before the government of the region He was black. For all the region to the Euphrates the theme in which Commagene was situated, that he was the governor of Sjria, it appeared ^)^ Of the suspects of Pescennii of this nrbinum just below

1MP.CAE8. C. FISH NIG. IVS

AVG. Laureate head Col. AEL. CHAPTER COMFORT Astarte he stood in the tetrastyle temple. AE. II. (Vail. in the novel Colonial and in Numis Greek p. 78.)

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a) No. Greek p. 78 b) Num. it is T. II. p. 207. c^t. Rom. c) B. L. Hem*

T. 24 p. 105. d) Herodian. in Pertin.

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Jerusalem Etyero Palaestinam Pesccn- to have done nothing before Seyero, these Tcrbis thee the Spartan stable *): Eliam of Neapolitans He took ju9 states to the Palestinians they had been in arms for a long time in behalf of the Negro, he says but of Serero. £t the same below >>) : He remitted the punishment of the Palestinians sam Nigri meruermU

The names of the suspects.

ATT. KA12. K. nE2KENNl02. NirEP02. 2EB, Inalius: Nl- I^EPI12« Laureate head. OR THIOXEXIN NEOKOPILN. Ceres standing d. spikes^ s.facem^ for ser^'s feet /y^iM., AE.max.mod. (Mus. Hunger. T.V. tab. i8« Harercarop ad Orosius p. 5 o.) Except Pedrusius, and HaTercaropus rites to protect the faith of these figures Tismus would not be worth their effort Remember the tel. Until then, everything is extreme they bear witness to ignorance. 2 for G this acTo is clearly sidTersatur, and written NlFEPO^, or, what is more absurd, NlFEPIl^ for NIFPOC Who will approve? Antioch of Syria Pedrosius, Teruman, gives away his mother these things I never tire of in abundance currency is recognized? did she ever ma- xiroi modnli, before the colony was de- drawn, signaTit? or ever like aTcr- sae tjpo usa, which assured its own, and con- did he have standing types? All these col- picked up these gods, even though of any height the river Augustus, the head ofTerrent, the suspects they would return, in Pescenni so much suspicion It is more ungrateful than that. I would prefer Antio- the chiasm of Caria, but neither these

tumnumiainscnpsit But for Famesiai^i God's faith already abundantly elcTaTit Spanish my autopta ^).

ATT. K. r. nec Nothing

lOTCTOC. CGB Laureate head

then KAIC APEI AC rEPMANlKHC. Diana huntress (Patin.) Sian of Aesculapites* (Liebe p. 817.) In aiiis aiii typi.

There is a huge amount of spurious Pcsccnnit of numbers, who Caesarea Germania they lied to their country. To these, as above no, already the name lOTCTOC is fatal. Vti- for all whom the gods proclaim • the same Liebei tcI in examining dili- race those of the Pescenni should carry the coin, which he himself proposed, suspecting himself to Tider, It is not doubtful to affirm ^). Indeed from the many gods of this city Pescennii, as many as Tidcrim, nothing I found a genuine one.

ATT. K. r. nec nifpcc

lOTCTOC. A gilded head. AAPI - -- KAICAPAIflN. MHTPO. Muiier, sitting with his head protected, d, a bowl near which Fortune stands. AE. 11. (Palin. Numi Imp.)

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Another like it except that between

and both fignram scriptvm pre^

terea KCNNATAN AE. max.

mode (PatLn Thes. p. 180.)

Whatever may be the faith of these figures,

how much less firm is the Tocabulum

lOTCTOC does, that is certain against

Patinum, those of Caesarea Germania

it could not be, which neither had Hadrian

•) in SeTcro ch. 9. b) Chap. 14.' c) Toro II. p. 242. d; I. c.

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himself, nor did he write meiropoUu in his heart. According to this very model 8i?e pro- bae, I have three bad marks discovered the gods modern mann t08, and them so among the like, that there is no doubt that they are all from the same person mati-ice to have been true* From Patinianus 8ola with the inscription of Arersa, and depra- different vata, which is as follows: AN API- NO. KAlCAPAIIiN. MHTPO. Ho- one bronze remains in the museum of Pem* brock •), the other in the museum ill. com. Yitzai, the third is indeed already known from the announcement Khellii, who brought him to the Yaillanti in his Supplement page* 104 ez museo de France published, atgraTiterpeccavit, when that the inscription on the reverse reads as follows--- ANAPINILN. KAICAPEiiN. MH- TPO , when, however, to have it in such a way that As I said above, I can affirm that the money given works often, and for a long time I contemplated tus, then that he simply ar- the race of the greatest ^orma calls, when yet let it be of a double melal, the interior of which it shines from pure silver, surrounding it I love this circle. Who is even average has the use of ancient numismatics, it will be easy to see when the epigraph is dislodged tomduplicis metalilusu, Graocis, that let me know, unknown, as a further device completely alien to the old system, mum faunc together with his companions in spurious to be counted £x in which it appears, no 8 always being a sign of an arrogant mind, sometimes even the most skilled ▼we trusted the oracle of the wrathful; for often not even knowledge, 8ed accuracy , and a circumspection in them ranuu Yocabulum XENNATAN to the other.

added numo, and what is read in nu- to the kings of the priests of Olba Cilicia, numus makes the same still more suspicious.

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ATTO. nor Nirpoa ioT-

CTOC. Laureate head. CmnNIHN. Palla9 Mians d. spear, *. shield AE. II.

This anniversary of Rome last year the man of Erndi tus Josephus Casalius canonicus Vatica no8. So don't worry about the term lOT- CTOC, there are many other things that my daughter-in-law will do they make it suspicious. Then from Hadrian Greek god at least of certain faith therefore the sign does not exist. Then from Cali No more gluttony in the gods of his city read; SlA£LNinN, but 2IAI1N02. The last year of the epoch, which Sidonius Grae- cis with his gods almost oonstanter inscribed to see And finally, neither tvpus, until now fn the coins of Sidonia undiscovered, numO| of which actions, he is patronized. And these things, although the details are not particularly ad- they were engaged, however, taken at the same time in a great way 8unt to prove this name forget it I would certainly judge him if he did I had seen it myself.

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ATT. K. r. nec nitpoc

lOTCTOC. CeB. Laureate head

then" eni CTP KA. CTPATONeiKOT. CMTPNAIXIN j^mazon Miatis d. fake riolam^ m. bipenne and petta^ for foot* bus ship AE. 11.

This coin is from the Honterian museum cl. Pinkertons, airy

t) Pa(t. III. tab. 54.

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•om cxhibuit *). Iierum rox lOTCTOC troublesome It does not mean that the money is ancient bilo, but I fear, nc Pcscennius in lo- Severl care through artcm succcs- sow Of course the praetorem Cl. Stratonic they offer to the gods Severus and Dcmna at Signed Smjrna, as well as type Ama- like a belt» See the gods of Vaillantius

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ATT. K. r, necK, Nirpoc.

100 C. Col. P. F. AVG. I will kill Captain Sa- rapid

Vaillantius took the money from Gaza Parmensi described, but qwod bilingual is, he is thought to be suspicious ^). seriously "It is safe, it is genuine by experts believe <^). So much more inclined is the coin put this in the number of counterfeits First of all, Vaillantius, not his own, but with the eyes of others, judgment is judged, and it is suspect Pedrusio has already been seen in the museum of Parmen be cuslodi To be the opposite of God's wall I will prove it, I will not deny it, but in front of the dis- please, for the Caesarian colony of the Samaritans dos, what does this god belong to, now rather than a Greek inscription, but a Latin one always, much less both in the same the forest is used. Why is there no doubt, re- a hundred hands on the head, and a pair of letters that he had trained himself to remodel the front.

Alexandrinov of this Augustus binos in he gave light abbot Sestiniu9, of qni- But whatever my opinion may be, I will tell you otherwise I told him in his place ^)

N&mina, ae fitu.

As for the names that I should observe, a few I have Why do you want to glory in the name IVSTl Luerit, I said above to the god IVSTI- TIA AVGVSTI Pesccnnium PIVM fa- cit numos Alexandrinus from Sestino tns, but even therefore more suspicious, as I said in the place just indicated.

Consul

In the woods of Pescenni not a few noted there the consulship II. , but only one me the historians mentioned above in his I praised life, and imitated others. It is not inconsistent with the manners of his age, Pe- the scene of the next Kalends lanuarii after the accession of the government arrogated to itself by right consul that he had proceeded in the East, that It was not recorded by the ancients.

Paier pafriae. ^

In this respect the title of a single god and the golden ones, which see above in CON^ HEARTS More surprisingly, it was used a Black honor, which is always decided it is usual from the senate, which, however, from hoo Tempted for fear of the first Lulian then Severus, by no means credible. I fear lest this very persistence of hunger having borne the faith of this one, and he is the only one in gold

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Tribunicia peiUoM. Until now, Augustus is the only one here.

a) Essay on medals Vol. I. p. 301« b) in Numis coloniar. p. 224. «) Num. available*

T. 11. p. 207. Rom. d) Vol. IV. p. 81.

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those who were struck with a mention on the coin he abstained, for which I have no other reason 1 I am going to find out what it used to be done by the senate I arrived, but here for the first time through the Lulians" I was not afraid of Se?eri to contribute to it could After that example neither An- the Tiochenes have dared his god

as described, write AHMAPXI- KHC. 6E0TCIAC, tribunicia power^ which, however, from Trajan, and so on to inscribe all the tetradrachms, suf- done that which had never been done before, cpi^ graph nPONOIA. ©eODN.

PRBTJFM.

Cotnmatis Homanix

Aurus, of which above in CONCORDIA • • Vnicu».

• Silver • • • . * Brill.

Bronze of any shape * • O.

Foreign countries:

I freed the city and the colonies. • «RRRR.

CLODIFS ALBINVS

D. Clodius Septimias AIbintis Hadru- Luetinus from Africa, a family of ours *)> which they say was derived from Postumii, and Albinis Romanorum b), and was born to his father Ccjonius Postumus, mother of Aurelia Mes- saline <:). By M. Aurelius, for whose sake Faith and military praise were his. to dignities, and the consulship completed He was promoted ^). It was convenient for us to do so He was favored by the letters given to him, which He fixed CapitoIinu to take it Caesar's title, which, however, this honor, when Commodus Fearing in his heart, he cautiously declined <^). In- with the black legions Sjriaei SeTcrum Pannonia to impe-

rium against the Lulian marketer To- Carenti Albinus from his Praeral) is recognized as emperor. But himself Tcrus the war in Lulian, and the city the decision of the penalty of the mind Tersans, ^e who was afraid of Albinus, Caesa- He greets him by letters, in which he the evidence of unwillingness, though disguised, and through fear I thus wrested a man from himself he conquered the credulous, as hitherto in the ob- I follow and follow with faith the ScTerum persi^' steret ^..

KC.946. P. X. f93. CEASAH. COS. DES. 11-

SeTCrus was slain by Julian and Rome taken

a) Capitoline c. 1. b) Ibid. c. 4.

0 Dio L. 773 § 15. (Fol. FIL)

c) Ibid. d) Ibld. c. JO. c) Ibid. c. 2.

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the Whites planning a war against Pescennia for Caesar already openly declared his own the appearance of kindness in every office nat» designates the consul again, nomos He commands that his image be struck, and the statues of him be made erects, without the success of the empire de-* tinat ^).

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A. D. CLOD. SEVEN ALBIN Slaughter The head of Ntium in AR. AE» L 11.

B. D. Clodius SEVENTH ALBINVS. Slaughter A bare head in AE* max» mod»

C. D. CLODIVS. ALBINVS. Slaughter Bare head in AV. and AR*

D. D. CL. SEVEN ALBIN Slaughter Bare head in AV. and AR

As lit. C. Providence AVG. COS. A woman standing d. Ifacillum, 8. a spear, for the feet of a ball. Av. AR. (Mus. Caes.)

Numireliquiz CONCORDIA - FOR- TVNAE. REDVCI— ROME. ETER- filAE etc. xam to his tjpis.

y. C. 9tn. P. X / P4. CAESAR COS. //.

^lbinas consul II. the colleague went forward Severus Augustus .Seterus Pescennlam to defeat

Parts of the front to last year a tooth

As lit. A. COS. 11 » Aescuiapius standing. AR. ^AE. I. (Mas. Caes. VatU.)

As lit. A. century FACTORY S. C. AE. I. IL (VailK) In others: SAECVLO. FRVGI- I will bring COS. II. or: SAEC FRVGIF. COS. II. An old man with a radiant head standing d. caduceus with spikes, s. trident AR. AE. I, II, (Mus. Caes.)

The same thing was done in Severin. mis synchronises, which yide

The rest of the gods are subject to argnment.

V. C. 948. P. X. 195. CAESAR COS. 11.

Nothing about Albino to this year it is given Severus in the East Parthians, Ad- he persecutes the Jabens, the Arabs.

The gods also belong to this year Albini was still in Caesar's consulship II. preferring"

V. C. 949. 950. P. X. 196. 191. AVGVSTVS. COS. he

At peace in the East, not even Caesar's love Scverus gives more honors to Albinus ^). After discovering the plots, which Seve- he had left the country, he openly Gusll takes the title. From Britain to Gaul liam crossed the seat of Lyons figif. Rome from the senate, though secretly through Severus hatred for his own supporters, and for the enemy's soldiers is judged The first winner of the ScTeri du- cibns, soon at Tinurtium there was a great slaughter 11. Cal. March 5* C. qSo. His the head of Severus was thrown from the trunk I am ahead of Rome, and the same in- sulting over the corpse he pushes ^). Perri

a) Capltolia. in Albinus c. 10. b) Herodian. in Setero p. 5l3. Gapitolin. c. 3. 10

c) Dio L»75 §• 4. d) Herodian. Spartan in SeTero c 11

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Polished the loss of Tiri between Tilta and Tir- protect Tarius, and if the senate loves so much he is as great as any prince, as says Capitolinus *), in the case was the generb nobility, and that Albinus was kinder to Tcro speraTit, who in promiscuous palres slaughter

The wife of the inert nomisy from whom he had children He took her, but Severus twice followed her Tictorium was taught, and cadaTcra in Rho- He commanded the danumabjici ^). Baby Fish Capitolinus mentions the Prineus "). I will say that his wife was Pescennia Plautil Tristan thinks so, but conjectures so lcTi, than there is a god of no faith, whom He brought out the wife inscribed with this name Fescennii, by the name of Pescennia Plautiana, but this also unknown to antiquity so, we saw in the Pescennius, which locnro go to the top

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AnimadTertendum, hacien besides gold, and silver mixed with bronze also from S. C. that they had received blows; but we also said above about the year 946 By order of Severus, the coin with the image of Albinus witnessing that it was signed by the gine of Rome definitely Herodian ^). But after that In August he said that Albinus, and from Se- The enemy was judged by right comma Bomanus began to exhale. Why no one? Albini were drunk by the gods from the added air S. C., and with the title of Augustus, and all who they exist, they are silver, in cojus, as eon it stands, the right of the emperors to coin the metal

it was Therefore all these in Gaul, or Bri* They have suffered so much with the hammer, not even now by the fabric of the barbarian nativity there Do the gods also exist among these? aurei, roihi unknown; for none of these I still saw the light myself, or somewhere I remember I read the report.

A. IMP. Slaughter Mr. Clo SEP, ALB, A VG. Laureate head in AR,

B. IMP. CAE Mr. Clo SEP. white AVG. Laureate head in AH.

C. raP. Mr. Clod SEVEN ALBIN AVG. Bare head in AR

Mr. Imp. Slaughter D. 150 ALBIN A VG. Laureate head in j4U.

Ft lit. B CLEMENTS. AVG. COS. II. A woman standing d, bowl^ s. a spear AR. (Muft. You kill.)

Albinus opposes his element to the harshness of SeTcri, with which he is his father the suspects, and those who follow the Black they are he observed very gravely.

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As lit. A. Gen. LVG. COS. Il Genius naked ca- d. spear cornucopiadf for the feet of an eagle. AR. (Mus. Caes.)

Albinus, when I came from Britain be it that he settled in Lyons, in whose he was defeated and killed in the neighborhood, Serte reports Herodianus «). In this tree we are present here in the city, GENf nn» LVG- presenting it to the world was signed, which in the city and most of the other Albini already in Augustus

a) in Albio c. 12. e) in SeTero.

b) Spartan in Sev. c. 11.

c) in Albitto c. 7. d) in Severus.

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Gods have been accused Terisiinile'e8t« Offici- lia Lugdiinensis already mcmoratur in nu- to those of Aatonii Illii, but much more

As lit. Mr. MAR. VLT COS. II Mars standing d. ha- ttam^ 8, a helmet. AR. (Mus. Com. a Vitzai.)

IMP. Slaughter 150 SEVEN AL- BIN AVG. Laureate head.

S. P. Q. R. P. P. OB* C. S. within the lau- the fault AR^ (Vaill. Num. prest. T. II. edit Bom p» ao8. in iconism.)

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Cam Albinus, from which Augustus was honored Seyero, the enemy, seized the object reluctantly has been judged, the god here in the city fe- he could not laugh, nor could he born, although it was paid to him at great cost the honor which the medal benefits. Therefore if that is true of faith, to those who dissemble clearly teaches all historians, Al- that he had conjured up a senate for himself in Gaul, "where the appeal of the Fatherland, and the honor of the servitors, namely the laureates "He broke up." For the same reason once and Pom- worse M. in Greece, Scipio in Africa to have a senate, even though Caesar bem held the seat in his power would have done the same later mum, we will rely on this coin. De another god with a similar aTcrsa will be dealt with in- (ra in Albini's more insolent nods.

Beliqui Albini Augustus nnmi inscrtp- tions, and tjpos contain obTips.

Numu9 vaguM,

Ancient uncertain. FOBTITVDO. AVG. invincible ever remember standing under the roof of the house d. clubs inmxus, s. Ilesperidus apples AR (Vail.) I decided to describe this money prop- I will use the epigraph three times. Tagus him one of Vaillant's carelessness established him, who he neglected to write down, so uncertainly, whether Albinus Caesar, or Augustus.

Ntmi Albini more insolent.

D. 150 SEVEN ALBIN CAE8. Bare head.

S. P. Q. B. P. P. OB. C. S. within the law the fault AB (Mus. Caes. Mediobarb.)

D. CLOD SEVEN ALBIN^CAES.

A bare head P. M. TB. P. COS. he Rome sitting AB (Mus. Farnes.)

D. Clodius ALBINVS. Slaughter P. M. TB. P. II. COS. 11. Standing figure d. branch^ i« a spear with a shield. AB (Mediobarb.)

Another like it, but AE. IL and to"

dito S. C. (Mediobarb.) I said that these gods were insolent in front of Albinus simply Caesar for* will be done, and aTcrsa not only the titles of An- I gave them the usual ones, but I also ate these of a kind, such as in the gods of Albinus Augus^ 1 whom I have described above, do not repeat rlas, as Father of the Country, of the Pontifical Ma- and the power of the tribune. Since It is clear that the gods of Albinus are still Caesar's to be signed by Boma, Terimill ?ideri

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could be exchanged matrices, ct with ca- Albini's pite conjoined the ayersa to Sere*. belonging to the rum, yerum in every Seven I learned the likes of the coin I do not find them, which would be surprising all perished in the Serres of the gods, and preserved only in the gods of Albinus, ad whom they do not pass over. What then? or is it expedient to call them spurious? He whom I described from the Caesarian museum, fraud he seems to be immune from the cold, and Mediobarbus also quotes the issue. one ad says Mnseum FaiTiesiannm. Be worthy in which of the inquirers, in whom the riches museums are available. Certainly those who They are described, explained, and with history he will conquer, or he will be none, or he will be great Apollo For even if we give them, they are sealed in Gaul, and Albinus was promoted to these titles had flown in by prior authority, yet he who himself the greatest pontiff, and his father he said three times, certainly even in the front of Augu* he called himself a fool.

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IMP. Slaughter Mr. Clo ALBIN

AYG. I took the laureate. VICT - - - COS. I. Imaginary weapons in Mifiens d, palm branch, 9. shield su- by the knee AR* (Mus. Caes.)

Here is a deity that has been completely destroyed some letters to VICT the consequences Both parts of the god are badly connected. £t- for it is anterior to Augustus, because of the ayersa Caesar's first consulship Believe it or not set, two matrices of monetary neglect it was badly composed, this year still in Caesar's new Albinus find a god" Scriptum COS I. is read also in some Sey^eri gods.

The number of foreign commas.

Side Pam- phjliae, and Smjrna Vaillantius lived, but with the head of Albinus Caesar's, not Augustus's mum received this title from everyone provinces, subdued Britain, Gaul, i and Germany the enemy Tcro was judged

No names of colonies have been found here they are, but not numerous, since, as Vaillantius presides over those provinces countries in which to forge a number of colonies they were not usual, for we have gods Sides and Smjmae, though never Aibinus prepare His image must be signed They could, however, be obedient to Severus not as his prince, but as to him, who was Caesar of Severus eloquently from Herodian is testified by Capitolinus "), ni* by what reason Aelius was Caesar Hadriani, Aurelius Verus Antoninus Pius etc. , of all of whom, and in the name of that of Caesar, we have the gods in co- loniis also signed.

ArUiocheni, and Alexandrian again de- they star

Names and titles.

SeptimiuB

The name of Septimius is re- ' added to the liquid is constantly read. Since that name was proper to Seyero, collects Tillemontius ^), Albinus from Se^ I did not just say that he had been to Caesarea but also adopted. That's ingenious.

a) in Albinus c. l. b) in Severus page 30

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But that very name should be read adhac in the gods of Albinus Augustus, nor verisi- a thousand, Albinus in that terror, with which he stem 86 Severus professus^ is, use was by name, which by adoption BC had ceased It is therefore more certain that this name rites of one of the elders, as is customary for him At what age did he learn

CLODIVUS ALBINVS

PonHfex maximun, Father of the country.

Which belong to these titles, which Albino name some ralde doubt tri- buunt, yide yertimas*

PRBTIFM.

Roman commas:

Aur^i ...••••, RRR.

Silver • . • R.

Aeneas I and II form R

Aeneas III. form O

Copper max. of the form RRRR.