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sixth Roman Emperor, took place. His reign lasted only a few 

 months ; but his name has been found on coins issued in Egypt. 



In the same year, the accession of Gordianus Pius, the twenty- 

 seventh Roman Emperor, took place. His name has been found on 

 coins issued in Egypt. Inscriptions dated in his reign, commemo- 

 rating acts of adoration by Egyptian families towards the ancient 

 deities, are mentioned by Champollion-Figeac. 



The KAAAKANeor of Democritus, Paxamus, Anatolius Berytius, and 

 the Geoponica xiii., according to Sibthorp's account of the Greek 

 usage, is the Cnicus benedictm. — This plant was seen by Hasselquist 

 at Damietta. 



In "A. D. 244," the accession of Philippus, the twenty-eighth Ro- 

 man Emperor, took place. He was by birth an Arab, and nominally 

 a Christian. His name has been found on coins issued in Egypt : 

 and (according to Champollion-Figeac) some inscriptions in the above 

 series, dedicated to the ancient deities of Egypt, are dated in his 

 reign. 



The Celebration of the Thousandth anniversary of the building of 

 Rome, took place " in the third consulship of Philippus, that is, in 

 A. D. 248," as determined by coins ; but the exact month has not 

 been ascertained (Ramsay, in Smith's Biog. Diet.). It appears, how- 

 ever, that Varro's Computation was the one followed. 



In " A. D. 249," the accession of Decius, took place. He is the 

 last Roman Emperor whose name has been found in hieroglyphic 

 characters. 



In "A. D. 251," the accession of Trebonianus Gallus, the thirtieth 

 Roman Emperor, took place. His name has been found on coins issued 

 in Egypt. 



In "A. D. 253-4" (Ramsay, in Smith's Biog. Diet.), the accession 

 of Aemilianus, the thirty-first Roman Emperor, took place. His reign 

 lasted a few months only ; but his name has been found on coins issued 

 in Egypt. He was succeeded by Valerianus ; whose name has also 

 been found on coins issued in Egypt. 



On the capture of Valerianus by the Persians, "A. D. 260," his son 

 and colleague, Gallienus, became the sole Roman Emperor. The name 

 of Gallienus has also been found on coins issued in Egypt. 



The medicinal kokaaot seeds of Aretaeus, may be compared with 

 cocculus Indicus (Menispermum cocculus). — In Egypt an indigenous 

 species of Menispermum is called " lebakh el-gebel ;" and the drug 



