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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 8341616, member: 99456"]too late - but fortunately also:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479185[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Domitian, As Caesar</b>, AD 69-81, AR Denarius, Rome mint, struck under Titus, AD 80-81</p><p><b>Obv:</b> CAESAR DIVI F DOMITIANVS COS VII, laureate head right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> PINCEPS IVVENTVTIS, goat standing left within laurel wreath</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC II.1 267 (Titus); RSC 390</p><p><br /></p><p>Vesuvius erupted August 24, 79 AD. Pliny the Younger writes to historian Tacitus:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"We could hear women shrieking, children crying and men shouting. Some were calling for their parents, their children, or their wives, and trying to recognize them by their voices. Some people were so frightened of dying that they actually prayed for death. Many begged for the help of the gods, but even more imagined that there were no gods left and that the last eternal night had fallen on the world."</i></p><p>-<a href="https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/pliny.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/pliny.html" rel="nofollow">Pliny the Younger, 2nd Letter to Tacitus</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and I will add a modern scene of Vesuvius from Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl in 1824. He witnessed this eruption Christmas 1820 and made an oil sketch which became the basis for the painting given to the Prince of Denmark (future King Christian VIII).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479187[/ATTACH]<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438159" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438159" rel="nofollow">Public Domain Image with thanks to the MET</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 8341616, member: 99456"]too late - but fortunately also: [ATTACH=full]1479185[/ATTACH] [B]Domitian, As Caesar[/B], AD 69-81, AR Denarius, Rome mint, struck under Titus, AD 80-81 [B]Obv:[/B] CAESAR DIVI F DOMITIANVS COS VII, laureate head right [B]Rev:[/B] PINCEPS IVVENTVTIS, goat standing left within laurel wreath [B]Ref:[/B] RIC II.1 267 (Titus); RSC 390 Vesuvius erupted August 24, 79 AD. Pliny the Younger writes to historian Tacitus: [I]"We could hear women shrieking, children crying and men shouting. Some were calling for their parents, their children, or their wives, and trying to recognize them by their voices. Some people were so frightened of dying that they actually prayed for death. Many begged for the help of the gods, but even more imagined that there were no gods left and that the last eternal night had fallen on the world."[/I] -[URL='https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/pliny.html']Pliny the Younger, 2nd Letter to Tacitus[/URL] and I will add a modern scene of Vesuvius from Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl in 1824. He witnessed this eruption Christmas 1820 and made an oil sketch which became the basis for the painting given to the Prince of Denmark (future King Christian VIII). [ATTACH=full]1479187[/ATTACH][URL='https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438159']Public Domain Image with thanks to the MET[/URL].[/QUOTE]
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