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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 8202398, member: 89514&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>For my interpretation of the LAETITIA type&nbsp; to work, we will probably have to postpone Antoninus&#039; tribunician day by a couple of weeks, until after Lucilla&#039;s birthday on 7 March, on the assumption that though Antoninus was adopted by Hadrian and granted proconsular imperium and the tribunician power by the Senate on 25 February 138, as his Vita states, nevertheless he put off actually assuming that power until its bestowal was confirmed by the meeting of his tribunician assembly some weeks later.</p><p><br /></p><p>We know from the Acts of the Arval Brothers that though Otho was proclaimed Imperator and Augustus immediately after Galba&#039;s assassination on 15 January 69, his tribunician assembly did not meet until 28 February, six weeks later. We also know that the rare earliest coins of Lucius Verus as Augustus omitted the title TR P, presumably reflecting a short period after Marcus Aurelius and the Senate made him co-emperor in March 161, but before the meeting of his tribunician assembly a week or two later.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in 151, the course of events will have been:</p><p><br /></p><p>Birth of Lucilla, 7 March 151, while Antoninus was still just TR P XIII.</p><p><br /></p><p>Introduction of the LAETITIA aureus type, for a brief time still with TR P XIII, then continued for a longer time with TR P XIIII, since Antoninus&#039; 14th tribunician day had now arrived.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately it seems impossible to convince Roman Collector of the validity of my chronology. He refuses to accept my quite plausible conjecture that the reason Marcus Aurelius renounced his tribunician power in 149-151 must have been because all of his children had died. We know, after all, firstly that Marcus was granted the TR P because of the birth of his and Faustina&#039;s first child in 147, secondly that he resumed that power in 151 soon after the introduction of the LAETITIA aureus type which plausibly commemorated Lucilla&#039;s birth, and thirdly that Marcus was habitually cautious about accepting new titles or honors, so would have been quite likely to renounce the TR P after his first two children had died, since he had been granted that title specifically for the birth of the first of them. Can there really be any other likely explanation for why Marcus renounced the tribunician power in 149-151?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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