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CHAP, opinion that this Stele was not of antient 
date sufficient for either of their sepulchres; 
yet it may be observed that Spon 1 has given, 
from a medal struck at Megara, a portrait of 
EUCLID the Wrangler, with his name on one side, 
and that of Hadrian on the other ; and Bellori 
has published a different coin (MEFAPEIiN) 
with the head of EUCLID, as Aulus Gellius* 
describes it, " rica velatus* with which the 
figure on the Stele agrees. Both representa- 
tions may therefore have been intended to 
represent the same individual ; and what fur- 
ther confirms this is, that whilst the reverse of 
the medal exhibits the figure of Diana, bearing 
in either hand a torch, as the symbol of the 
lower regions and of night, so the dog on the 
Stele, the animal figure of Anubis, is also that 
of Sirius at its heliacal setting : a significant 
and appropriate emblem of the philosopher 
descending into the infernal shades. These 
marbles, together with our other subsequent 
acquisitions in bas-relitfs and fragments found 
in Athens, amounting to fourteen pieces from 
this city alone, are now in the University 
Library at Cambridge : and as the author's 
account of them is already before the public, it 
(I) Misccll. Erud. Antiq. sec. iv. (4) Lib. vi. e. 10. 
