A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 206
e of thenativity to wliich they sodistinctly point. The leg-end relates that the em-peror consulted the sibylTiburtina, to know if itwere right that he shouldaccept the divine honorswhich the Senate had de-creed to him Th€ sibyl,after meditating some days,took the emperor alone,and showed him an… … 190 LEGENDS AND STORIES Augustus erected on the Capitoline Hill an altar, and inscribed it, Ara primogeniti Dei. The Church called the Ara-Cceli stands onthe same spot as that on which the altar was built, and in it is a bas-relief representing this legend, to which an incredible antiquity is…
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