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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4888882, member: 87200"]Yes he had an interesting beard. Supposedly his last words as he lay dying from a spear wound in his spleen were:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Thou hast conquered, Galilean." referring to Jesus' triumph over paganism.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like a lot of quotes invented by historians in antiquity it is probably embellishment. One of the favorite literary techniques of these writers is to add quotes and speeches attributed to historical characters of importance.</p><p><br /></p><p>The account of his death in Ammianus Marcellinus, Liber XXV, passage 21:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Meanwhile, all who were present wept, whereupon even then maintaining his authority, he chided them, saying that it was unworthy to mourn for a prince who was called to union with heaven and the stars. Then he himself engaged with the philosophers Maximus and Priscus in an intricate discussion about the nobility of the soul. Suddenly the wound in his pierced side opened wide, the pressure of the blood checked his breath, and after a draught of cold water for which he had asked, in the gloom of midnight he passed quietly away in the thirty-second year of his age."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4888882, member: 87200"]Yes he had an interesting beard. Supposedly his last words as he lay dying from a spear wound in his spleen were: "Thou hast conquered, Galilean." referring to Jesus' triumph over paganism. Like a lot of quotes invented by historians in antiquity it is probably embellishment. One of the favorite literary techniques of these writers is to add quotes and speeches attributed to historical characters of importance. The account of his death in Ammianus Marcellinus, Liber XXV, passage 21: "Meanwhile, all who were present wept, whereupon even then maintaining his authority, he chided them, saying that it was unworthy to mourn for a prince who was called to union with heaven and the stars. Then he himself engaged with the philosophers Maximus and Priscus in an intricate discussion about the nobility of the soul. Suddenly the wound in his pierced side opened wide, the pressure of the blood checked his breath, and after a draught of cold water for which he had asked, in the gloom of midnight he passed quietly away in the thirty-second year of his age."[/QUOTE]
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