Popilius bij Antiochus, Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, after James Buys, 1797 print The Roman consul Popilius Laenas pulls a circle in the sand around the Syrian king Antiochus with a stick. He may not leave the circle from him before he immediately answers the Council in Rome. Amsterdam paper etching the consul C. Popilius Laenas, commissioned by the Roman senate to order Antiochus IV Epiphanes to abstain from war, with his staff draws a circle around the monarch and asks him not to go beyond it before answering

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