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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CONSILIA . INTE . ITV . QVAM .AM ... .
AMAN . . RENT
v. 6.
TER . FVERAT . REVOCATA.ES
CVM .PA.ATVS
v.7.
ET • PATRIAE .... OMI . ANTE . SVAE
CVM . MIL . . . CAESAR
v. 8.
EEN . ALiXAN . I . C . . . . EN . . . AD
M . . . EN . . . VENIS
v. 9.
SIGNAQVE . CONSTITVIT . SIC . OMN . . .
RROR . IN . ARTVM
Col. VIII.
-VRBEM
OPSIDIONE . TAMEN . N . C . CORPORA
MOENIBVS . A .... NT
CASTRAQVE . PRO . MVRIS . ATQVE.
ARMA . PEDESTRIA . PONVNT
HOS . INTER . COETVS . AL . SQE . AD
BELLA . PARATVS
VTRAQVE . SOLLENNIS . ITERVM . RE
VOCAVERAT . ORBES.
CONSILIIS . NOX . APTA . DVCVM . LVX
APTIOR . ARMIS.

The poem, as I have said, evidently describes
the Alexandrian war: these verses relate to the