520 Rude Stone A ntiquities of Brittany. By Miss Russell. 



meaning of these letters is supposed to be quite unknown, but it 

 struck me on seeing them for the first time in this connection, 

 that they stand for "the Julii from Troy," and refer to 

 their nonsensical descent from ^Eneas, and therefore from 

 Priam's divine ancestress, Venus ; to whom Csesar dedicated a 

 breastplate of British pearls, in one of her Roman temples, after 

 his invasion of Britain. 



The descent is particularly nonsensical, for, besides the gap of 

 a thousand years or so, there are indications that the descendants 

 of iEneas were the later kings of Troy ; but as a factor in the 

 history of Caius Julius, it is interesting, and the iEneid was, 

 partly at least, written to illustrate it under Augustus. 



The annexed engraving gives two coins of Csesar which are in 

 the British Museum. It so happens they are of exactly the same 

 date as the statue 705 a.u.c. ; 49 b.c. : for it is quite known 

 that Csesar never can have seen it, he having left Gaul in the 

 year of Rome 704. This is to his credit as far as the fine arts 

 are concerned ; for he was himself in Rome, striking this coinage 

 on his own account, with the trophy of Gaulish arms, the rather 



Fig. 3.— Coins of Julius C'cesar, 



