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<p>[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 7706025, member: 96635"]Fun write up [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]! That fourth merris coin is neat, very rare.</p><p>Antiochos III indeed good outclassed by Ptolemy IV, but he is still my 2nd favorite Megas! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>But... Let's not forget Antiochos IV afterwards outclassed the Ptolemies, if Rome wouldn't have interrupted <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. </p><p><br /></p><p>King Antiochus IV of Syria came forward, and went to meet Gaius Popillius Laenas.</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘Rome has no business in Egypt!’ the King said, frowning awfully and direfully.</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘Syria has no business in Egypt either,’ said Gaius Popillius Laenas, smiling sweetly and serenely.</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘Go back to Rome,’ said the King.</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘Go back to Syria,’ said Gaius Popillius Laenas.</p><p><br /></p><p>“But neither of them moved a single inch.</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘You are offending the Senate and People of Rome,' said Gaius Popillius Laenas after a while of staring into the King’s fierce face. ‘I have been ordered to make you return to Syria.’</p><p><br /></p><p>“The King laughed and laughed and laughed. ‘And how are you going to make me go home?’ he asked. ‘Where is your army?’</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘I have no need of an army, King Antiochus IV,’ said Gaius Popillius Laenas. ‘Everything that Rome is, has been, and will be, is standing before you here and now. I am Rome, no less than Rome’s largest army. And in the name of Rome, I say to you a further time, go home!’</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘No,’ said King Antiochus IV.</p><p><br /></p><p>“So Gaius Popillius Laenas stepped forward, and moving sedately, he used the end of his staff to trace a circle in the dust all the way around the person of King Antiochus IV, who found himself standing inside Gaius Popillius Laenas’s circle.</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘Before you step out of this circle, King Antiochus IV, I advise you to think again,’ said Gaius Popillius Laenas. ‘And when you do step out of it - why, be facing east, and go home to Syria.’</p><p><br /></p><p>“The King said nothing. The King did not stir. Gaius Popillius Laenas said nothing. Gaius Popillius Laenas did not stir. Since Gaius Popillius Laenas was a Roman and did not need to hide his face, his sweet and serene countenance was on full display. But King Antiochus IV hid his face behind a curled and wired wigbeard, and even then could not conceal its thunder. Time went on. And then, still inside the circle, the mighty King of Syria turned on his heel to face east, and stepped out of the circle in an easterly direction, and marched back to Syria with all his soldiers.”</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess these "bunch of farmers with no style, art, religion" really do not have a sense of humor of their own.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/UWWpbVU.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos III Megas (223 - 187 B.C.). AR Tetradrachm. Antioch mint. Series 3, circa 204–197 B.C.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Diademed head of Antiochos III to right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY. Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; to outer left, bow in bowcase.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> SC 1044.5a; Le Rider series 3-4, obv. A12; BMC 27; HGC 9, 447u.</p><p>17.07g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 7706025, member: 96635"]Fun write up [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]! That fourth merris coin is neat, very rare. Antiochos III indeed good outclassed by Ptolemy IV, but he is still my 2nd favorite Megas! :cool: But... Let's not forget Antiochos IV afterwards outclassed the Ptolemies, if Rome wouldn't have interrupted :mad:. King Antiochus IV of Syria came forward, and went to meet Gaius Popillius Laenas. “‘Rome has no business in Egypt!’ the King said, frowning awfully and direfully. “‘Syria has no business in Egypt either,’ said Gaius Popillius Laenas, smiling sweetly and serenely. “‘Go back to Rome,’ said the King. “‘Go back to Syria,’ said Gaius Popillius Laenas. “But neither of them moved a single inch. “‘You are offending the Senate and People of Rome,' said Gaius Popillius Laenas after a while of staring into the King’s fierce face. ‘I have been ordered to make you return to Syria.’ “The King laughed and laughed and laughed. ‘And how are you going to make me go home?’ he asked. ‘Where is your army?’ “‘I have no need of an army, King Antiochus IV,’ said Gaius Popillius Laenas. ‘Everything that Rome is, has been, and will be, is standing before you here and now. I am Rome, no less than Rome’s largest army. And in the name of Rome, I say to you a further time, go home!’ “‘No,’ said King Antiochus IV. “So Gaius Popillius Laenas stepped forward, and moving sedately, he used the end of his staff to trace a circle in the dust all the way around the person of King Antiochus IV, who found himself standing inside Gaius Popillius Laenas’s circle. “‘Before you step out of this circle, King Antiochus IV, I advise you to think again,’ said Gaius Popillius Laenas. ‘And when you do step out of it - why, be facing east, and go home to Syria.’ “The King said nothing. The King did not stir. Gaius Popillius Laenas said nothing. Gaius Popillius Laenas did not stir. Since Gaius Popillius Laenas was a Roman and did not need to hide his face, his sweet and serene countenance was on full display. But King Antiochus IV hid his face behind a curled and wired wigbeard, and even then could not conceal its thunder. Time went on. And then, still inside the circle, the mighty King of Syria turned on his heel to face east, and stepped out of the circle in an easterly direction, and marched back to Syria with all his soldiers.” I guess these "bunch of farmers with no style, art, religion" really do not have a sense of humor of their own. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/UWWpbVU.jpg[/IMG] [B]Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos III Megas (223 - 187 B.C.). AR Tetradrachm. Antioch mint. Series 3, circa 204–197 B.C. Obverse:[/B] Diademed head of Antiochos III to right. [B]Reverse:[/B] ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY. Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow in his right hand and resting his left on grounded bow; to outer left, bow in bowcase. [B]Reference:[/B] SC 1044.5a; Le Rider series 3-4, obv. A12; BMC 27; HGC 9, 447u. 17.07g[/QUOTE]
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