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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 6549497, member: 75937&quot;]What an entertaining and informative thread, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]! I see the coin has made such an impression on you that it has become your avatar! Cool!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have but one coin from Crete -- and it&#039;s from Cnossos, even -- this barely identifiable provincial of Nero and <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-tale-of-two-wives.305410/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-tale-of-two-wives.305410/">poor ol&#039; Claudia Octavia</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nero-and-claudia-octavia-cnossos-jpg.697542/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Nero and Claudia Octavia</font></p><p><font size="3"> Roman provincial Æ 24.6 mm, 8.60 g</font></p><p><font size="3"> Crete, Cnossus, AD 54-62</font></p><p><font size="3"> Obv: NERO CLAV CAES AVG IMP LVPINO VOLVMINIO II, bare head of Nero right, scepter over left shoulder</font></p><p><font size="3"> Rev: NERO CLAV CAES AVG IMP ET OCTAVIA AVGVSTI, bare head of Nero, left, star above, facing draped bust of Octavia, right, crescent above</font></p><p><font size="3"> Refs: SGI 655; RPC 1005-6; Svoronos 95, 217 var; Cohen 313, 1-2.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I hope you&#039;ll forgive a little divertimento (which is, after all, a labyrinthine thing, if you think about it) toward some historical and comparative linguistics.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]NTqBKgaPUUg[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>The American Linguist, John McWhorter, has suggested that Greek words that end in -inth, such as Corinth, labyrinth, plinth and hyacinth are of ancient Cretan origin and were incorporated as loan words into the Greek of the Mycenaeans. If so, they may be some of the oldest words in a European language. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you&#039;ll also forgive yet another divertimento toward a personal anecdote.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]J1VNf0ELCPs[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>And thanks for the pleasant Paul McCartney <a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/03/12/148460545/why-that-song-gets-stuck-in-your-head" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.npr.org/2012/03/12/148460545/why-that-song-gets-stuck-in-your-head" rel="nofollow">earworm</a>! It took decades, however, to finally hear the correct lyrics in my brain. When I was a kid, I -- like <a href="http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/maybeimamazed.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/maybeimamazed.shtml" rel="nofollow">many others before me</a> -- thought the lyrics were &quot;Baby, I&#039;m amazed.&quot; Then, in college, I dated a girl named Amy and I purposely sang the song to myself as &quot;Amy, I&#039;m amazed,&quot; all the while still thinking the song was &quot;Baby, I&#039;m amazed.&quot; Only now, after finally seeing the correct name of the song in print and after being married to someone not named Amy for the last 30 years, am I able to hear &quot;Maybe&quot; in the lyrics when I think of the song.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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