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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 2884489, member: 77226&quot;]I&#039;ve always had a soft spot for poor Carus and have always enjoyed this section of Gibbon&#039;s <i>The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Book 1, Chapter VII, Part II:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>“The successor of Artaxerxes, Varanes, or Bahram, though he had subdued the Segestans, one of the most warlike nations of Upper Asia, was alarmed at the approach of the Romans, and endeavored to retard their progress by a negotiation of peace.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>His ambassadors entered the camp about sunset, at the time when the troops were satisfying their hunger with a frugal repast. The Persians expressed their desire of being introduced to the presence of the Roman emperor. They were at length conducted to a soldier, who was seated on the grass. A piece of stale bacon and a few hard peas composed his supper. A coarse woollen garment of purple was the only circumstance that announced his dignity. The conference was conducted with the same disregard of courtly elegance. Carus, taking off a cap which he wore to conceal his baldness, assured the ambassadors, that, unless their master acknowledged the superiority of Rome, he would speedily render Persia as naked of trees as his own head was destitute of hair. Notwithstanding some traces of art and preparation, we may discover in this scene the manners of Carus, and the severe simplicity which the martial princes who succeeded Gallienus, had already restored in the Roman camps. The ministers of the Great King trembled and retired.”</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Excerpt From: Edward Gibbon. “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1.” iBooks. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-volume-1/id506622041?mt=11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-volume-1/id506622041?mt=11" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-volume-1/id506622041?mt=11</a></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]691936[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><b>Carus. </b>AD 282-283. Antoninianus. Rome mint, 2nd officina. 2nd emission, AD 282. Radiate and cuirassed bust right</i></p><p><i>Obverse: IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG</i></p><p><i>Reverse: IOVI V_I_CTORI</i></p><p><i>/ Jupiter standing left, holding Victory on globe and scepter; eagle standing at feet to left; BKA. RIC V 38; Pink VI/2, p. 32.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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