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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2826672, member: 57495&quot;]Is it &quot;<b>O</b>&quot; day?&nbsp; I&#039;m still looking for an <b>Ops</b>, but for now I have an <b>Oceanus</b>...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]665207[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>HADRIAN</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 2.98g, 19.1mm. Rome mint, AD 119-125. RIC 75a. O: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate bust right. R: P M TR P COS III, Oceanus reclining left on a dolphin, crab claw horns on his head, holding an anchor in his right hand.</p><p><i>Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Hesiod&#039;s <i>Theogony </i>has Oceanus as eldest of the Titans, husband of Tethys, father of all the river gods and ocean nymphs.&nbsp; Prior to the ascendance of the Olympian deities, Oceanus was the unchallenged ruler of all the Seas. In that cosmology, he was also the world-ocean, the vast river stream that encircled the known lands. When Hercules, for his 11th Labour, voyaged to the Hesperides at the edge of the world, it was upon Oceanus that he traveled. Similarly, when Roman emperors ventured to far-flung Britain, it would be upon Oceanus that they sailed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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