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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7843479, member: 99456&quot;]An excellent coin from the festivities at the end of the conquest of Pontus!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1349766[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>&quot;Lucullus, after filling Asia full of law and order, and full of peace, did not neglect the things which minister to pleasure and win favour, but during his stay at Ephesus gratified the cities with processions and triumphal festivals and contests of athletes and gladiators. And the cities, in response, celebrated festivals which they called Lucullea, to do honour to the man, and bestowed upon him what is sweeter than honour, their genuine good-will.&quot; </i></p><p>-Petrarch, <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lucullus*.html#23.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lucullus*.html#23.1" rel="nofollow">Life of Lucullus, 23.1-2</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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