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Dindorf's 19th century text has a Latin translation at the bottom. Vol.1, p.13 is here, and has the Apollinaris text:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N3A ... &q&f=false

No, that's the volume I have. There must be a Latin translation around, surely?

Usifiyeh appears to be better known as Isfiya, and is near Mount Carmel. The hoard was mostly Jewish coins, but the rest was denarii.

A brief google search locates a volume on Qumran, discussing coin finds there: "Wealth in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Qumran Community, Volume 40", p.312. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fUPIG-TEKR8C&lpg=PA312 The Usfiyeh hoard of the mid-first century AD contains 160 Roman den...

Well, I know nothing about it, in common with everyone else in this forum I suspect. But I see you refer to "Yaakov Meshorer, Ancient Jewish Coinage Vol. 2 Herod the Great through Bar Cochba, 1982" elsewhere in this forum - is this what you have in mind? Have you consulted it yourself? Now...

Then there's the give unto Caesar denarii that Jesus calls for, even though denarii weren't used in Judea, nor were Greek coins (leptas) two of which were equivalent to one Roman quadrans (in the widow's mitres story). We get clever dudes suggesting that they got Roman and Greek coins from soldiers...

Yes, that never got traction, did it.

I see that "Roman Piso" is still around, vainly plugging his theory that everybody in antiquity is really Calpurnius Piso (including, presumably, the dog).

Re: science, read what I wrote earlier. I know what you wrote and how you misused it in the debate. Which I pointed out. Which mirrors your misuse of statements like the one concerning "the fact that few scientists are atheists", which is also bollocks. Earlier in this thread Roger wrote ...

Re: science, read what I wrote earlier.

I'm a very bad person.