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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 8112898, member: 72790&quot;]According to Harper Collins Latin Concise Dictionary the verb iterare means &quot;to repeat or renew&quot;. Its adverbial derivative, iterum,&nbsp; means &quot;again or for a second time&quot; and when accompanied by the word, atque, means &quot;repeatedly&quot;. If he was hailed as imperator only for two times it would mean,&nbsp; in this instance, twice, but if he was conferred with this title several times ( I don&#039;t know if he was) I think the &quot;again&quot; translation might be the preferred choice. I am going to check later with my Cassels Latin Dictionary and my White&#039;s copy and a good history to see if I can find out how many times he may have been conferred with this title. This may be difficult because as this coin was issued by a travelling mint, and Sulla travelled quite a bit with the troops, there may be several occasions when ONLY the troops knew how many times they had conferred this title on him. Thanks for piquing my curiosity on this as I probably never would have&nbsp; pursued just how many times Sulla was hailed as &quot;imperator&quot; If only twice then iterum, in that case,&nbsp; is best&nbsp; translated as twice, but if several times, then, again, would be. I wonder if they ever used the word &quot;bis&quot; (twice) on coinage to avoid ambiguity?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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