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This coin reverse the word Eros - ЄΡⲰC is written in Greek, with the letters Epsilon [Ε] , Rho [Ρ] and Omega [Ω] in a ligature. Eros translates into Latin as Amor, and Amor is an anagram for Roma.
In Virgil's Aenid, Aeneas says to Dido that the Lycean Oracle commands him to go to the land of his 'Amor' [which is Roma].
The wordplay Amor-Roma is also known from the palindrome Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor [Rome, love will come to you suddenly] found, among other instances, in a letter of Sidonius Apollinaris and in an inscription from Aquincum.
This coin reverse the word Eros - ЄΡⲰC is written in Greek, with the letters Epsilon [Ε] , Rho [Ρ] and Omega [Ω] in a ligature. Eros translates into Latin as Amor, and Amor is an anagram for Roma.
In Virgil's Aenid, Aeneas says to Dido that the Lycean Oracle commands him to go to the land of his 'Amor' [which is Roma].
The wordplay Amor-Roma is also known from the palindrome Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor [Rome, love will come to you suddenly] found, among other instances, in a letter of Sidonius Apollinaris and in an inscription from Aquincum.