Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . strates the contini^nce of the imperatorial symbol of acrown, by an example of the date 238. When the Aquileians woiild intimateto their besiegers their acknowledgment of the senatorial emperors Maximus andBalbinus, they did so by exhibiting from the walls their portraits croumed with lam-el. On the other hand, as before observed in my Note - p. 132, Spanheim notices, ascommon Roman medals of the fera of Trajan and the Antonines, coins in whic
Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . strates the contini^nce of the imperatorial symbol of acrown, by an example of the date 238. When the Aquileians woiild intimateto their besiegers their acknowledgment of the senatorial emperors Maximus andBalbinus, they did so by exhibiting from the walls their portraits croumed with lam-el. On the other hand, as before observed in my Note - p. 132, Spanheim notices, ascommon Roman medals of the fera of Trajan and the Antonines, coins in whichbarbarian kings are represented as receiving a tiara, or diadem, from the Romanemperor. Similarly Dion Cassius, Ixvii. 7, tells how Domitian, in profession and pretenceof his having the disposal of that barbarian kingdom, put the diadem on a Daciankings envoy: rt{i AirjyiSi SiaSrjiJia tirtOriKi, KaQaifiQ 6)q a\riOi»e KiKpaTtjKiDQ,KUL (iaatXea riva roiQ AaKoig Sovvai Swafierog. 5 So Gibbon, Vol. ii. p. 165.—See my Essay on this subject in the Appendix atthe end of Vol. iii. PI. 4. 137. THE EMPEROR NERVA WITH THE IMPERIAL ( M THE EMPEIL0R_TALE:pr8 WITH THE ROYAL DIADEM.
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