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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4967091, member: 99456"]Nice coins [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] - especially like all three Macedonians. Seutonius doesn't describe a warm relationship between Domitian and his brother - taking over from him before he was dead:</p><p><br /></p><p>"[after his father's death] he never ceased to plot against his brother secretly and openly, until Titus was seized with a dangerous illness, when Domitian ordered that he be left for dead, before he had actually drawn his last breath. And after his death he bestowed no honour upon him, save that of deification, and he often assailed his memory in ambiguous phrases, both in his speeches and in his edicts."</p><p>-Seutonius, <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Domitian*.html#2.2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Domitian*.html#2.2" rel="nofollow">Life of Domitian 2.2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(there is something about this that doesn't ring "true" - bestowed no honor - just made him a god?) However, I hadn't heard anything about twin eating?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193851[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Domitian</b>, 81-96, AR Denarius, Rome, 93-94</p><p><b>Obv:</b> IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XIII, Laureate head of Domitian to right.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> IMP XXII COS XVI CENS P P P, Minerva standing left, holding thunderbolt in her right hand and spear with her left; shield at her side[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4967091, member: 99456"]Nice coins [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] - especially like all three Macedonians. Seutonius doesn't describe a warm relationship between Domitian and his brother - taking over from him before he was dead: "[after his father's death] he never ceased to plot against his brother secretly and openly, until Titus was seized with a dangerous illness, when Domitian ordered that he be left for dead, before he had actually drawn his last breath. And after his death he bestowed no honour upon him, save that of deification, and he often assailed his memory in ambiguous phrases, both in his speeches and in his edicts." -Seutonius, [URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Domitian*.html#2.2']Life of Domitian 2.2[/URL] (there is something about this that doesn't ring "true" - bestowed no honor - just made him a god?) However, I hadn't heard anything about twin eating? [ATTACH=full]1193851[/ATTACH] [B]Domitian[/B], 81-96, AR Denarius, Rome, 93-94 [B]Obv:[/B] IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XIII, Laureate head of Domitian to right. [B]Rev:[/B] IMP XXII COS XVI CENS P P P, Minerva standing left, holding thunderbolt in her right hand and spear with her left; shield at her side[/QUOTE]
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