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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2281166, member: 76194&quot;]The Brutus belonged to the Junia clan. That is verifiable by ancient roman sources. The author freely admits that the interpretation of the ass&#039; head standing for Brutus is only the best known information he&#039;s found at the time he was writing the catalog, though it sounds legit as Brutus can mean stupid in Latin in the right context, and the Brutus were part of the Junia clan, which the coiner was a member of. So it does seem like a fun way by the coiner to poke fun at his family legacy.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end of the day, it is the best we have to go on. Previous sources for this information are probably lost to history. Unless I find an older or second source that says different, this is the best we have.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I find anything contradictory in the future, I will bring it to this forum&#039;s attention. But for now I&#039;m confident on this, and it is a more logical explanation for the ass&#039; head than my previous hypothesis (based on my own educated guess) on what it might represent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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