LEIBERTAS





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LEIBERTAS, instead of LIBERTAS, according to the ancient mode of spelling with the dipthong EI for the single letter I. It is thus that it appears, with his head, on the denarius of Brutus, to show that he was the asserter of libery. See Junia.

LEIBERTAS, with the head of the goddess of liberty veiled, appears on a coin of Cassius, in memory of the event in which he and Brutus, with the other conspirators, killed Julius Caesar, and asserted what they, who "called" it freedom when themselves were free, termed the liberty of the republic.

LEIBERTAS
for LIBERTAS. The head of a female crowned with a numbus or glory; on other veiled besides. On a denarius of C. Cassius Longinus, the colleague of Brutus, who here places the head of liberty on his medals, because he had taken up arms in her cause.

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