07-05-2012, 10:12 PM
Quote:It would certainly help"To Jupiter Best and Greatest, for the prosperity and victory of L. Verginius Rufus. Groundskeeper Pylades paid his pledge." (As you probably know, the erection of an altar was in fulfilment of a pledge made to the deity in question; thus, Pylades was fulfilling his own pledge.)
Quote:It is the use/context of "pro salute et victoria" I am trying to understand.Well, if you think about it, it's really only the emperor's "properity and victory" you'd want to be praying for -- in public, at any rate! :wink: Mommsen seems to be quite right. Clauss-Slaby list 70 instances of the phrase; the only one not connected with an emperor or emperors is this one.
