Imperium Romanum

Text: QVI MARE QVI TERRAS OMNI DITIONE TENERENT. VERG.
To hold the sea and all land beneath their sway.

Extract from Virgil, Aeneid. 1.234
Certe hinc Romanos olim, volventibus annis, hinc fore ductores, revocato a sanguine Teucri, qui mare, qui terras omni dicione tenerent, pollicitus, quae te, genitor, sententia vertit?

Surely it was thy promise that from them some time, as the years rolled on, the Romans were to arise; from them, even from Teucer’s restored line, should come rulers, to hold the sea and all land beneath their sway.

Staff with eagle and a map of the Roman Empire.

Michel 589, Sassone aerea 109, AFA 521

Date of issue: 1937

Face value: 1+1 l.

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Date created: 22/03/00 11:41:49