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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 1920297, member: 44210&quot;]Not exactly a numismatic thread but numismatics kind of led me to this.&nbsp; Around the time I got my coin of him, being the history nerd I am, I was looking up stuff on Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of the famed king Theodoric. I found online an inscription from his reign found on the amphitheater in Pavia or Milan (can&#039;t remember exactly which), and (not surprising) my self-taught, rudimentary Latin skills and knowledge have not helped me to 100% translate it. I even tried online translators but, as I had thought, they didn&#039;t help much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Text of the inscription:</p><p><br /></p><p>D.N. ATALARICVS REX GLORIOSISSIMVS HAS SEDIS SPECTACVLI ANNO REGNI SVI TERTIO FIERI FELICITER PRECEPET</p><p><br /></p><p>For starters, I know the first part is &quot;Our lord, Athalaricus, most glorious king&quot; or similar, but I&#039;m having trouble with the rest. I know also though that SPECTACVLI means &quot;show&#039; or &quot;spectacle&quot;, ANNO REGNI meaning &quot;regnal year&quot; or &quot;year of [his] reign&quot;, and &quot;TERTIO&quot; being &quot;third&quot;, so from all of this I&#039;m guessing that the inscription is saying that Athalaric saw a spectacle in that amphitheater in the third year of his reign (529 AD). As I said earlier, my skills at proficiently reading Latin aren&#039;t very good (regrettably for me I never took a single class of it), so I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if my guess was wrong. Interestingly I found during my original online research that the inscription means that he dedicated the seats of the amphitheater in his third year as king, but I haven&#039; been able to locate again the webpage that stated this. If anyone is able to help me with this Latin inscription, I&#039;d be very grateful.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to find a photo of the actual inscription as well:</p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/Athalaricinscription_zps5938c34f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, to keep this at least somewhat coin-related, here is my only coin of the boy-king Athalaric:</p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Athalaric</b></u>, <b>Ostrogothic King of Italy</b> (ruled 526-534 AD)</p><p>AE Decanummium</p><p><u>Obv</u>: INVIC-TA ROMA, Roma helmeted, facing right</p><p><u>Rev</u>: DN ATHAL-ARICVS, Athalaric, in military outfit, standing, holding spear and shield, S-C across fields, X in left field</p><p><u>Mint</u>: Rome, struck 526-534 AD</p><p><u>Ref</u>: BMC Vandals 69, COI 85b, Very Rare</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/Athalaric2_zps1327b200.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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