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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2679334, member: 76194&quot;]The image of the ship prow and captured suit of armor has to be alluding to the Battle of Actium only two summers prior.</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus was so proud of this battle that he never stopped talking about it...and why should he? That&#039;s how he won the Empire to himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have you seen the monument he erected with the captured prow ram heads of Anthony&#039;s ships?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]598592[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is all that remains today, the marble having been carried off during the middle ages, and the ram heads being melted by medieval scavengers.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]598595[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a bronze ram pulled off of the coast of Italy where the Roman fleet met the Carthraginian fleet in combat at the Battle of Cape Ecnomus during the First Punic War. This ram was found with a preserved piece of wood stuck to it from a Carthraginian ship that was rammed and probably sunk. Even though it&#039;s 200+ years before Actium, the design would have been basically the same as used at Actium.</p><p><br /></p><p>To read more about Rome&#039;s first major naval battle:&nbsp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Ecnomus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Ecnomus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Ecnomus</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]598598[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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