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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 7062390, member: 84744&quot;][USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER], your page is excellent and I agree that the main reference of &quot;DAFNE&quot; must be to victory - also somehow to laurel.&nbsp; One small detail I take issue with, though, is in the following bit:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">Eusebius wrote in his &quot;Oration of Constantine to the Assembly of the Saints&quot; in chapter eighteen:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">&nbsp;“having been devoted by the folly of her parents to this service, a service productive of nothing good or noble, but only of indecent fury, such as we find recorded in the case of Daphne.&nbsp; On one occasion, however, having rushed into the sanctuary of her vain superstition, she became really filled with inspiration from above, and declared in prophetic verses the future purposes of God…”</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">This passage relates how the oracle realized the error of her old pagan beliefs. Maybe the Dafne coins also alluded to this change in spirituality.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2503.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2503.htm" rel="nofollow">quote from the Oration in context</a>, the woman referred to as having become filled with inspiration is the Erythraean sibyl rather than Daphne.&nbsp; Daphne is here just as an example of how these oracles &quot;produce nothing good or noble.&quot;&nbsp; So I don&#039;t think this provides support for the idea that the coin represents a change in spirituality.</p><p><br /></p><p>(For a summary of what&#039;s been said about the Daphne passage in the Oration, see section 6.3 of this dissertation: <a href="https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/files/2930422/DX186767.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/files/2930422/DX186767.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/files/2930422/DX186767.pdf</a>.&nbsp; And thanks for sending me on a delightful trip through some of this literature.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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