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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8607951, member: 128351"]According to the Historia Augusta, Severus Alexander made Maximinus "<i>tribune of the Fourth Legion, which he himself had formed out of recruits, giving him his promotion with the following words: "I have not entrusted veterans to you, my most dear and loving Maximinus, because I feared that you cannot root out the faults that have grown in them under other commanders. You have fresh recruits; after the pattern of your habits, your courage, your industry, make them learn their service</i> (...)" "<i>Having therefore accepted the legion, he immediately began to train it. On every fifth day he had his men parade in armour and fight a sham battle against one another. Their swords, corselets, helmets, shields, tunics, in fact all their arms, he inspected daily</i> (...)" etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thus I always imagined Maximinus Thrax like this :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1514473[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, I also like this dupondius (scarce, I have not seen many dupondii of this emperor) :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1514474[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8607951, member: 128351"]According to the Historia Augusta, Severus Alexander made Maximinus "[I]tribune of the Fourth Legion, which he himself had formed out of recruits, giving him his promotion with the following words: "I have not entrusted veterans to you, my most dear and loving Maximinus, because I feared that you cannot root out the faults that have grown in them under other commanders. You have fresh recruits; after the pattern of your habits, your courage, your industry, make them learn their service[/I] (...)" "[I]Having therefore accepted the legion, he immediately began to train it. On every fifth day he had his men parade in armour and fight a sham battle against one another. Their swords, corselets, helmets, shields, tunics, in fact all their arms, he inspected daily[/I] (...)" etc. Thus I always imagined Maximinus Thrax like this : [ATTACH=full]1514473[/ATTACH] On the other hand, I also like this dupondius (scarce, I have not seen many dupondii of this emperor) : [ATTACH=full]1514474[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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