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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4947921, member: 57495"]Cool coin, and excellent writeup! </p><p><br /></p><p>Most probably because he liked to knock back a drink or fifteen on occasion. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> According to Pliny, Antony wrote a book about his own drunkenness. From Plutarch's <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony*.html" rel="nofollow">Life of Antony</a> we have him portrayed as:</p><p>"<i>... promptly resorting to drinking and intoxication</i>"</p><p>"<i>... the enjoyment of suppers and drinking-bouts...</i>"</p><p>"<i>[Curio] in order to make Antony more manageable, engaged him in drinking bouts...</i>"</p><p>"<i>They loathed his ill-timed drunkenness, his heavy expenditures, his debauches with women, his spending the days in sleep or in wandering about with crazed and aching head...</i>"[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4947921, member: 57495"]Cool coin, and excellent writeup! Most probably because he liked to knock back a drink or fifteen on occasion. :D According to Pliny, Antony wrote a book about his own drunkenness. From Plutarch's [URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony*.html']Life of Antony[/URL] we have him portrayed as: "[I]... promptly resorting to drinking and intoxication[/I]" "[I]... the enjoyment of suppers and drinking-bouts...[/I]" "[I][Curio] in order to make Antony more manageable, engaged him in drinking bouts...[/I]" "[I]They loathed his ill-timed drunkenness, his heavy expenditures, his debauches with women, his spending the days in sleep or in wandering about with crazed and aching head...[/I]"[/QUOTE]
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