Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 282
onification of a city, holding palm-branch and cornu-copiae. The inscription is rBAEIAEHE] BALIAEn[N]above, APCAKDY EYEPTETOY on the right, AIKAIDYbelow, [E]ni4>ANDYE [4>I]AEAAHNDE on the left. Invery small letters under the throne is the date HoE = 278,which, reckoning by the Seleucid era,… … The head is that of a youth, and probably representsthe first Emperor of liome at an age when he was stillC. Octavius. He was not nineteen when, alter the murderof his uncle Caesar, in March, 44, he learned that he wasCaesars heir. His name was then changed to C. IuliusCaesar Oetavianus. The title…
Classical antiquities
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