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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 228495, member: 6370&quot;]great example of a very interesting emperor:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>here is mind if you dont mind:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/thrax.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It also took time for me to find just the right portrait...I went for the more jutting chin portrait...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/thraxp2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>BTW...this emperor is one of my favorites...here is a quick bio that shows why <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.cachecoins.org/maximinusthrax.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cachecoins.org/maximinusthrax.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.cachecoins.org/maximinusthrax.htm</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Good read...just a snippet here:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">Herodian writes:</font></p><p><i><font face="Arial"><font size="2">He was in any case a man of such frightening appearance and colossal size that there is no obvious comparison to be drawn with any of the best-trained Greek athletes or warrior elite of the barbarians.</font></font></i></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">The Historia Augusta elaborates:</font></font></p><p><i><font face="Arial"><font size="2">He was of such size...that men said he was six inches over eight feet in height and his thumb was so huge that he used his wife&#039;s bracelet for a ring. Other stories are reported almost as common talk — that he could drag wagons with his hands and move a laden cart by himself, that if he struck a horse with his fist, he loosened its teeth, or with his heel, broke its legs.</font></font></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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