This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...Ir.ilnin super impetrato fortis Augnsti reditu forumque littbns orbum. 304. Augustus. Roman iIold coin (aureus) issued in Haul ahont 15 B.C. In thi British Museum. The doors of the palace of the Caesars were ornamented with an oaken crown between two branches of laurel. The former was the rorona civicu granted to one ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...Ir.ilnin super impetrato fortis Augnsti reditu forumque littbns orbum. 304. Augustus. Roman iIold coin (aureus) issued in Haul ahont 15 B.C. In thi British Museum. The doors of the palace of the Caesars were ornamented with an oaken crown between two branches of laurel. The former was the rorona civicu granted to one Roman citizen who hud preserved the life of another; the laurels commemorated the victories of Augustus. Cp. Ovid, Fast. iv. 953: State Palatiuae lauius, praetextaque quercu stct domus; and Trist. iii. i. 47: Causa superpositae scripto testata coronae servatos eives indicat huius ope. On the obverse of this coin is the portrait of AVGVSTVS, on the reverse the civic crown with the inscription OB CIVIS SERVATOS. 305. The subjugation of Armenia. Roman silrer coin (denarius) of Augustus, struck by the mowver Petronius Turpilianwi in 12 ii.C. In the British Museum. The coin reads CAESAR DIVI F(ilius)--the title of Octavian as adopted son of the deified Julius Caesar--and ARME(nia) CAPT(a). The figure is a personification of Armenia, wearing the Armenian tiara, and holding out the hands to receive fetters--manus dare is the phrase. 306. The German campaigns of Drusus (12-9 B.C.). Hold coin (aureus) issued iome time after the death of Drusus (9 B.C.). In the British Museum. Nero Claudius Drusus, brother of Tiberius and stepson of Augustus, carried on several successful campaigns against the Germans (12-9 B.C.). Afier his death a triumphal arch was erected to him on the Via Appia. It is represented here, inscribed DE GERMANIS, and bearing an equestrian figure of Drusus between two trophies. On the obverse is his head, laureate, surrounded by the inscription, NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMAN ICVS IMP(erator). The title Germaniau was only granted to him and h...
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