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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2607328, member: 42773&quot;]Salus was the goddess of safety and well-being. Here she is feeding her snake, on a billon ant of Gallic emperor Victorinus. This coin is another example of a ragged flan with full details - also the patina is colorful and interesting...</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]570092[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>A SOLDIER&#039;S PRAYER</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>On the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salus" rel="nofollow">page discussing Salus</a>, wiki refers to a poem written by centurion Avidus Quintianus on the construction of the fort of Bu Njem in the African desert, AD 202. The poem is in Latin on the wiki page, and I don&#039;t have enough skill to translate it myself, but I did find this translation by Rachael Maers (The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry, p. 294)</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]570096[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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