RESTITVTOR VRBIS

Latin: to the restorer of the City


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RESTITVTOR, or RESTITVTORI, VRBIS.-- The Emperor standing at a sacrifice:  another with the same epigraph, has the type of Rome seated.  This appears on silver denarii of Septimius Severus, to whom this flattering appellation was given doubtless on account, not of his having either rebuilt or embellished Rome, but of his having restored the honor of the "Eternal City" by avenging the death of Pertinax, secured domestic tranquillity to the empire by the destruction of his competitors Albinus and Niger, and made the Roman name again respected abroad by his victories over the Parthians.  In a similar manner, but without the same pretence, the coins were struck by order of hi cut-throat son, Caracalla, in dedication to himself as "the Restorer of the City."

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