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FELICITATI AVG S C COS III P P - "A praetorian galley, with the gubernator and five sitters, but with ten oars, or rather sweeps, over the sides: as these appear to have no communication with the persons in view, but carry their looms through the upper works, the sitters are rather passengers than rowers, and they wear hats, as if to protect them against the heat upon deck. The prow is armed with three spikes, the rostrisque tridentibus of Virgil. The tutela is highly decorated, and the poop shews the bend, mentioned by that author and Ovid: puppique recurvae, upon the bow appears the parasemon, and over that the labarum, or banner, on a staff which steeves like a bowsprit. Both this, and the streamer from the corymbus, by blowing forwards, shew that the vessel has a fair wind, an ancient symbol of Felicity, which will be readily understood be the moderns. Descrpt. Catal. p 100, No. clvii.

FELICITATI AVG S C COS III P P - "A praetorian galley, rowing swiftly over the waves. The poop is high and curved, like that of a Chinese sampan, and the post occupied by the pilot recalls the idea of his liability to be washed overboard,
Ipse gubernator puppi Palinarus ab alta
Over the aplustre appear two military standards, which are considered as a testimony that an important personage has embarked. A colossal sea-god, half man and half fish, is placed on the prow; on some medals this is a Triton, blowing a conch shell, but here he is in the act of darting a spear. This is equivalent to the modern figure head, and represented the tutelary protector to whom, as with the modern Mediterranean sailors, the ship was dedicated. There are six sitters in a line below the pilot, and the rudder is projected through the upper works of the quarter." Ibid, p 101, No. clvii.

FELIC AVG TR P III  COS II S C (Felicitati Augusti, Tribunitia Potestate tertium, Consul Iterum) - First brass of Lusius Verus. "A large Praetorian galley, with the emperor reclining under the aplustre [or ornament] of the stern. There are six rowers; and on the forecastle is a mast raking forwards, with a sail upon it, shewing that the vessel is going with the wind aft: in the work of Bayfus, 'De Re Navali, ' the sail is represented as a banner; but here it is unusually large, roached, bent to one yard, and sheeted home to another, and certainly assists in propelling the vessel. This medal (adds Capt. Smyth), was struck AD 163, for the safe navigation, and happy deliverance of Verus from the perils of sea and war. But, instead of being at the head of his army, the luxurious prince took that opportunity of visiting Greece, in a vessel magnificently adorned, and freighted with mimes and musicians. 'He made his voyages to Corinth and to Athens (says the Roman historian), amidst songs and symphonies, and at each of the most celebrated cities of Asia, Pamphylia, and Cilicia, he suffered himself to be detained by his passions as a voluptuary. '" Descr. Cat p 150, No. cclxxv. 

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