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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 7864597, member: 75482&quot;]My idle speculation. Latin has both <i>deus</i>, a literal immortal god such as Jupiter, and <i>divus</i>, a divine status conferred to mortals by human agency<i>. </i>Julius Caesar and Claudius Gothicus are examples. <i>Divus </i>could also be recognition of a divine element in nature or elsewhere. Greek, on the other hand, makes no such distinction. There is only θεός. Zeus is θεός. Julius Caesar is θεός. In the case of the coin here, I take the meaning of θεός as more like <i>divus </i>than <i>deus,</i> recognizing the divine aspect of the Senate. I suspect that&nbsp; θεός has been conferred by the authority of the city, elevating worship of the Senate to civic cult status.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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