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The incription is . S . P . Q . R . CAESARI AVGVSTO . That is Senatus Populusquc RomanusCajsarAugusto— "TheSenate and Roman People to Ciesar Augustus . " This intimates that the coin ivas struck by command of the senate , and is therefore of copper ( bronze ) . Gold and silver
money was always struck under the direct authority of the emperors , but the copper ( bronze ) money by the senate . This was the man who ivas emperor at the birth of Jesus . Crowned B . C . 31 , he continued to reign until his deathA . D .
, 14—a period of 45 years . It was his decree " that all the world should be taxed , " Avhich brought Joseph ancl Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem , so that the future Redeemer was born , according to the prophecy , " at Bethlehem of Judah . "
On the other side of the coin appears a soldier with helmet and armour bedi ght , bearing in bis left hand a staff . The attitude of the hero is superb . AVith his right hand he sustains a cavalry standard , styled in Latin a vexillum . The legend or motto will appear to the reader a little complicated . But let us lay it straight on paper :
VOT P SVSC PRO SAL ET RED IOM SACR .
NOAV to fill out the abbreviations : VOTA PUBLICU SUSCEPTA PRO SALUTE ET REDITU JOVI OPTIMO MAXIMO SACRUM . Tune that into newspaper American , ancl it means , "The public A'ows made for his safety ancl returnto Jupiter the
, Greatest and Best . " AVe learn from Pliny that it was the custom of the people to address prayers to the deities for the safety of their rulers and , Avhen they Avere absent , for their return . The safety of the emperorit Avas thought
, , involved the safety of the nation . That Augustus made himself popular by his wonderful poAver of government cannot be doubted . The prosperity of the vast empire , its rest from civil commotions , the enormous increase of populationthe
, spread of kiiovcleclge , may all be attributed to the Avork of the man of Actium , and when next the reader hears " Julius Cfesar " played at the theatre , and observes Avith what contempt Cassius stylos him " Young Octavius , " and underrates him in
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comparison with Mark Anthony , he will see how little judgment of character ivas displayed by Cassius . " Young Octavius , " who afterwards took the name of his uncle " Cresar" ancl was styled " Augustus" by an obsequious senate , became in fact the
founder of the Imperial System under ivhich Rome subsisted for four hundred years . Look once more upon the lineaments of Augustus Ciesar , aud ivoncler at the skill Avith -which an engraver 1 , 900 years since transferred them to enduring metal , as YOU see in my specimen .
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .
BY BRO . GEORGE MARKIIAM TWEDDELL , Fellow of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries , Copenhagen ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Historical Society , London ; Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary Club , and of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society ,
IT is said that a hundred and fifty tons of horse-shoe nails are made Aveekly in the United Kingdom ; or seven thousand eig ht hundred tons a year . The exports are about two thousand , five hundred tons a year .
Some of our local luminaries have made the Avonderful discovery that " ivhenever a distinguished visitor from Russia comes to this country the weather is epiite in keeping with that which prevails upon the banks of the Neva . " Do those
enlightened editors really believe that " a distinguished visitor from Russia " has any effect upon the AVeathcr here when he " comes to this country ? " If so , they should try to iuduce our government to procure a visit from some distinguished
Russiaus in the sultriest days of any unusually hot summer , aud beg of them all to remain " upon the banks of the Neva " Avhen the Aveather is cold enough without them . But if said enlightened editors really do not believe that the Russian visitors bring the cold weather from the banks of the Neva with them , it is too bad of them . to try to persuade their
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The incription is . S . P . Q . R . CAESARI AVGVSTO . That is Senatus Populusquc RomanusCajsarAugusto— "TheSenate and Roman People to Ciesar Augustus . " This intimates that the coin ivas struck by command of the senate , and is therefore of copper ( bronze ) . Gold and silver
money was always struck under the direct authority of the emperors , but the copper ( bronze ) money by the senate . This was the man who ivas emperor at the birth of Jesus . Crowned B . C . 31 , he continued to reign until his deathA . D .
, 14—a period of 45 years . It was his decree " that all the world should be taxed , " Avhich brought Joseph ancl Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem , so that the future Redeemer was born , according to the prophecy , " at Bethlehem of Judah . "
On the other side of the coin appears a soldier with helmet and armour bedi ght , bearing in bis left hand a staff . The attitude of the hero is superb . AVith his right hand he sustains a cavalry standard , styled in Latin a vexillum . The legend or motto will appear to the reader a little complicated . But let us lay it straight on paper :
VOT P SVSC PRO SAL ET RED IOM SACR .
NOAV to fill out the abbreviations : VOTA PUBLICU SUSCEPTA PRO SALUTE ET REDITU JOVI OPTIMO MAXIMO SACRUM . Tune that into newspaper American , ancl it means , "The public A'ows made for his safety ancl returnto Jupiter the
, Greatest and Best . " AVe learn from Pliny that it was the custom of the people to address prayers to the deities for the safety of their rulers and , Avhen they Avere absent , for their return . The safety of the emperorit Avas thought
, , involved the safety of the nation . That Augustus made himself popular by his wonderful poAver of government cannot be doubted . The prosperity of the vast empire , its rest from civil commotions , the enormous increase of populationthe
, spread of kiiovcleclge , may all be attributed to the Avork of the man of Actium , and when next the reader hears " Julius Cfesar " played at the theatre , and observes Avith what contempt Cassius stylos him " Young Octavius , " and underrates him in
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comparison with Mark Anthony , he will see how little judgment of character ivas displayed by Cassius . " Young Octavius , " who afterwards took the name of his uncle " Cresar" ancl was styled " Augustus" by an obsequious senate , became in fact the
founder of the Imperial System under ivhich Rome subsisted for four hundred years . Look once more upon the lineaments of Augustus Ciesar , aud ivoncler at the skill Avith -which an engraver 1 , 900 years since transferred them to enduring metal , as YOU see in my specimen .
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .
BY BRO . GEORGE MARKIIAM TWEDDELL , Fellow of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries , Copenhagen ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Historical Society , London ; Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary Club , and of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society ,
IT is said that a hundred and fifty tons of horse-shoe nails are made Aveekly in the United Kingdom ; or seven thousand eig ht hundred tons a year . The exports are about two thousand , five hundred tons a year .
Some of our local luminaries have made the Avonderful discovery that " ivhenever a distinguished visitor from Russia comes to this country the weather is epiite in keeping with that which prevails upon the banks of the Neva . " Do those
enlightened editors really believe that " a distinguished visitor from Russia " has any effect upon the AVeathcr here when he " comes to this country ? " If so , they should try to iuduce our government to procure a visit from some distinguished
Russiaus in the sultriest days of any unusually hot summer , aud beg of them all to remain " upon the banks of the Neva " Avhen the Aveather is cold enough without them . But if said enlightened editors really do not believe that the Russian visitors bring the cold weather from the banks of the Neva with them , it is too bad of them . to try to persuade their