Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 243
th sword-belt hanging from it, in his lefthand, while with his right he poursa libation from a 4>idXi] upon a blazing altar. He isidentified by the inscription which is placed above andbelow his right arm, 0€M|ICTOKAH|C. Before the altarlies the figure of a bull, the victim of the sacrifice… … HISTORY 203 Magnesians.3 Dioscurid.es Gratus is known from otherMagnesian coins of the same period. It has been suggestedthat the monument of Themistocles, with this slaughteredbull lying beside the altar, gave rise to the story currentin antiquity that Themistocles died from drinking of theblood…
Classical antiquities
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