PVDICITIA


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    PVDICITIA.----This legend appears, with a variety of types, in every metal and form, on coins of Faustina the younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius, and of Lucilla, wife of Lucius Verus.----Whether the modesty of these two princesses is boasted of on these medals according to the custom of court flattery, or whether, as wishing to be what they ought to be is a question we presume not to decide.----We have seen that even the coins of Hadrian make a vaunt of his pudicitia, a claim to commendation which no one less than he had established for himself.

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