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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 4576778, member: 51347&quot;]Ummm, Donna, I was using the Cliff&#039;s Notes to illustrate exactly as you are stating:&nbsp; it was NOT the Oath Scene, rather that it is Aeneas landing and dreaming about / finding the White Sow and 30 piglets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I DO understand the Veturius Oath Ceremony.&nbsp; I even feel that it went further in the Marsic Confederation Denarius with the 8 Marsic Tribes binding themselves into the Confederation against Rome:</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, you need to go get one of these:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133139[/ATTACH]</p><p>Marsic Confederation / Italian Allies</p><p>Social War 90-88 BCE</p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>19x17.9mm, 3.7g</p><p>Anonymous Issue, Corfinium Mint</p><p>Obv: Italia head, l, ITALIA behind</p><p>Rev: Oath-taking scene with eight warriors, four on each side, pointing their swords towards a <b>sacrificial pig</b>, which is held by an attendant kneeling at the foot of a standard. - Binding the Marsi, Picentines, Paeligni, Marrucini, Vestini, Frentani, Samnites, and Hirpini Tribes into the Marsic Confederation against Rome during the Social War</p><p>Comment: The reverse is based on the gold Stater and Half-Stater from the Second Punic War, and the Ti Viturius denarius...</p><p>Sear 227 SYD 621 SCARCE[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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