L. Servius Sulpicius Rufus D. Postumius Albinus Bruti f. 44-42. M. Iunius Brutus, proconsul imperator P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, propraetor C. Flavius Hemicillus, legatus pro praetore Pedanius Costa, legatus L. Plaetorius Cestianus L. Sestius, proquaestor C. Cassius Longinus, proconsul imperator M. Caecilius Aquinus P. Cornelius Lentulus Spin ther, proquaestor M. Servilius, legatus Domitius Ahenobarbus, imperator Q. Cornuficius Augur, imp. C. Antonius M. f. pontifex, proconsul. 41. M. Barbatius Philippus, quaestor provincialis L. Gellius Publicola, quaestor provincialis M. Cocceius Nerva, proquaestor provincialis 1. From this date the portrait of the dictator or triumvir is often reproduced on thecoins. Thus we have denarii of Sepul. Macro, Maridianus, Livineius Regulus, Mussidius Longus, &c., with the heads of J. Cæsar, M. Antony, Octavius, Lepidus, &c. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE FAMILIES WITH NOTES OF THE PRICES OF THE COINS 198. The most rational classification of the coins no doubt would be the chronological, but the Republican series, on account of the very great number of names, some of which are frequently repeated, and partly on account of the uncertainty of the dates of some coins, offers so many difficulties in the way of a chronological arrangement that all writers have up to the present time confined themselves to the old alphabetical system. Although that system may not be the most reasonable since it includes under one family names belonging to periods differing widely in time and which are thus found to be placed together by mere accident, yet the system has the immense advantage of giving the greatest facility for research. |