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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3278618, member: 57463"]Thanks for the very detailed write up. I have nothing to add to quibble. You found all the facts I knew when I wrote about the coin. "Dyrrachium: Rome's Gateway to Greece," <i>The Celator</i>, Vol 11 no 4, April 1997. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of the coin is often called only a "stellate pattern" but it has been suggested that these are the doors to a great hall as referred to in The Odyssey.</p><p><br /></p><p>"... Epidamnus had an inauspicious sound to Latin speakers." Because it has the root word "damn" in it, of course. As for AUSPICIOUS, that, too, has a deeper meaning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3278618, member: 57463"]Thanks for the very detailed write up. I have nothing to add to quibble. You found all the facts I knew when I wrote about the coin. "Dyrrachium: Rome's Gateway to Greece," [I]The Celator[/I], Vol 11 no 4, April 1997. The reverse of the coin is often called only a "stellate pattern" but it has been suggested that these are the doors to a great hall as referred to in The Odyssey. "... Epidamnus had an inauspicious sound to Latin speakers." Because it has the root word "damn" in it, of course. As for AUSPICIOUS, that, too, has a deeper meaning.[/QUOTE]
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