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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 5126757, member: 99456"]I had missed your "<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-mysterious-transformation.360216/#post-4513255" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-mysterious-transformation.360216/#post-4513255">mysterious transformation</a>" post.</p><p>That coin looks pretty nice to me...Dionysius of Halicarnasus writing during the time of Augustus, seems to have mixed up the two towns (Lavinium, Lanuvium), he tells the story of the founding of Lanuvium. The scene of an eagle and wolf stoking a fire, while the envious fox wetting his tail and attempting to extinguish the fire. The eagle and wolf prevail.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202947[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4"><i>"Aeneas, on observing this, said that the colony would become illustrious and an object of wonder and would gain the greatest renown, but that as it increased it would be envied by its neighbors and prove grievous to them; nevertheless, it would overcome its adversaries, the good fortune that it had received from Heaven being more powerful than the envy of men that would oppose it."</i></font></p><p><font size="4">- Dionysus of Halicarnasus, <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1C*.html#59" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1C*.html#59" rel="nofollow">The Roman Antiquities, 59</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 5126757, member: 99456"]I had missed your "[URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-mysterious-transformation.360216/#post-4513255']mysterious transformation[/URL]" post. That coin looks pretty nice to me...Dionysius of Halicarnasus writing during the time of Augustus, seems to have mixed up the two towns (Lavinium, Lanuvium), he tells the story of the founding of Lanuvium. The scene of an eagle and wolf stoking a fire, while the envious fox wetting his tail and attempting to extinguish the fire. The eagle and wolf prevail. [ATTACH=full]1202947[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4][I]"Aeneas, on observing this, said that the colony would become illustrious and an object of wonder and would gain the greatest renown, but that as it increased it would be envied by its neighbors and prove grievous to them; nevertheless, it would overcome its adversaries, the good fortune that it had received from Heaven being more powerful than the envy of men that would oppose it."[/I] - Dionysus of Halicarnasus, [URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1C*.html#59']The Roman Antiquities, 59[/URL][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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