Atkins, Sarah: Relics of antiquity, exhibited in the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum: with an account of the destruction and recovery of those celebrated cities (London: St. Harris, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1825)

THE ALEXANDRIAN WAR.

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It evidently contains a description of the death
of Cleopatra. On the four sheets which M.
Andres obligingly presented to me, sixty-one
verses are contained in the eight columns, but
most of them mutilated. These sheets do not
contain the whole of the poem; indeed, I was
told that a much greater number remained to
be printed. In the second verse of the first co-
lumn, we read the name of cesar. In the
third of the second column, felvsia and caesar.
The eighth verse of the same column has these
words: vindicat .... mvlam. romam. cote
.... ndem, A strange hand, probably that of
M. Andres himself, had written in the margin of
the copy the following passage from the zEneid :
“ Tecta videns quee nunc Romana potentia ccelo.
JEquavit.”
In the different columns the following words
may be read :
Col. hi. I.
AL . XANDROv. 3. A. TIACOS(Actiacos).
Col. IV. v. 2.
PRAEBERETQVE . SVAE. SPECTACVLA.
TRISTIA . MORTIS.
QVALIS . AD . INSTANTIS . ACIES . CVN
ILLA . PA . NTVP
SIGNA . TVBAE . CLASSESQVE . SIMVL