Hasta. -- We see this weapon on Roman coins in the hands of various deities, amongst the rest those of Apollo, Bacchus, Castor and Pollux, Ceres, Cybčle, Diana, Hercules, Juno, Jupiter, Mars, Pallas, Sol, Venus, Vesta, and (as a demigod) Romulus. In like manner it is an attribute of qualities, such as AEquitas, AEternitas, Annona, Clementia, Concordia, Fecunditas, Felicitas, Fides, Fortune, Hilaritas, Honos, Indulgentia, Justitia, Liberalitas, Munificentia, Nobilitas, Patientia, Pax, Perennitas, Perpetuitas, Pietas, Providentia, Pudicitia, Quies, Salus, Securitas, Tranquillitas, Virtus, &c. A man on horseback with the hasta in his hand, on imperial coins, betokens an emperor hastening to the wars. The type of an emperor shaking his spear over an enemy lying prostrate on the ground, denotes that his heroism in battle against the "barbarians" shone like that of another Mars, and such like flattery. The genius of a city carries a hasta in the right hand for the defence of the citizens against the barbarians. Rome, when personified on coins, is almost always represented holding the hasta, that particular mark of dominion and sovereignty.