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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3605212, member: 99456"]Thank you [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] for the interesting writeup, coins, and wealth of Janus material. Your post prompted me to look up the vivid <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses14.html#785" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses14.html#785" rel="nofollow">Ovid Metamorphoses IV</a> Reference for the Sabine story... </p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>"Till then the path by Janus' fane was open, never yet had floods risen to impede the way. But now they laid hot sulfur of a faint blue light beneath the streaming fountain and with care applied fire to the hallowed ways with smoking pitch. By these and many other violent means hot vapors penetrated to the source of the good fountain.—Only think of it! Those waters which had rivaled the cold Alps, now rivaled with their heat the flames themselves! And, while each gate post steamed with boiling spray, the gate, which had been opened (but in vain) to hardy Sabines just outside, was made impassable by the heated fountain's flood, till Roman soldiers had regained their arms."</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Janus coin - condition a bit rough: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]965222[/ATTACH] </p><p>Sicily, Panormos, circa 120 BC</p><p>Æ As (5.11g, 20.4mm) <b>Manius Acilius</b>, Quaestor.</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Laureate and bearded head of Janus; I above </p><p><b>Rev:</b> MAN (ligate) ACILI Q within laurel-wreath; star pattern of pellets at top</p><p><b>Ref:</b> SNG ANS 599; Calciati I pg. 342; 71; BMC Sicily pg. 126, 1[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3605212, member: 99456"]Thank you [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] for the interesting writeup, coins, and wealth of Janus material. Your post prompted me to look up the vivid [URL='https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses14.html#785']Ovid Metamorphoses IV[/URL] Reference for the Sabine story... [SIZE=3][I][/I] [I]"Till then the path by Janus' fane was open, never yet had floods risen to impede the way. But now they laid hot sulfur of a faint blue light beneath the streaming fountain and with care applied fire to the hallowed ways with smoking pitch. By these and many other violent means hot vapors penetrated to the source of the good fountain.—Only think of it! Those waters which had rivaled the cold Alps, now rivaled with their heat the flames themselves! And, while each gate post steamed with boiling spray, the gate, which had been opened (but in vain) to hardy Sabines just outside, was made impassable by the heated fountain's flood, till Roman soldiers had regained their arms."[/I][/SIZE] Here is a Janus coin - condition a bit rough: [ATTACH=full]965222[/ATTACH] Sicily, Panormos, circa 120 BC Æ As (5.11g, 20.4mm) [B]Manius Acilius[/B], Quaestor. [B]Obv: [/B]Laureate and bearded head of Janus; I above [B]Rev:[/B] MAN (ligate) ACILI Q within laurel-wreath; star pattern of pellets at top [B]Ref:[/B] SNG ANS 599; Calciati I pg. 342; 71; BMC Sicily pg. 126, 1[/QUOTE]
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