The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . ocas followed thefounders; and Sistinus shows that this fish is the dog-fish,which abounds in those seas. The wolf is said to have beenregarded by the Egyptians as the emblem of the course of thesun, and the animal was also dedicated to Apollo, or the sun,by the Greeks. Macrobius says the year was anciently calledby the Greeks Xu/cajSaiTa, which Pier. Yaleriano derives fromXw)(^w, signifying a wolf. The letter L occurs on several medals, and has been mostlytaken as a numeral by the older numismatists; but as theGre
The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . ocas followed thefounders; and Sistinus shows that this fish is the dog-fish,which abounds in those seas. The wolf is said to have beenregarded by the Egyptians as the emblem of the course of thesun, and the animal was also dedicated to Apollo, or the sun,by the Greeks. Macrobius says the year was anciently calledby the Greeks Xu/cajSaiTa, which Pier. Yaleriano derives fromXw)(^w, signifying a wolf. The letter L occurs on several medals, and has been mostlytaken as a numeral by the older numismatists; but as theGreeks adopted two forms of the Xaju/3Sa, the A and the L, andthis last form is used on coins for the word Au/cajSairoc, theyear, so the wolf on this coin may refer to the year when thecolony was founded; or as the inhabitants of these coastswere expert mariners, and occupied Avith fisheries, it might referto the time of year when these fisheries took place, for some-thing of the kind is intimated by iElian* as having existed onthe lake Maeotis, at a place called Canopium. When Harpagus had subdued the lonians on the continent,the inhabitants of the islands, terrified at the fate of theirbrethren, immediately submitted. In the statue with the crab at her feet, we have the emblemof the Island of Cos. This island was anciently known by * V. H., vi. 65. t A silver Tetradrachm. Brit. Mus. IONIC MONUMENT AT XANTHUS. 145 various name, as Cea, Staphylus, Nympha^a, and Meropis.* Itcontained a very celebrated temple of ^Esculapius, as also anequally celebrated and more ancient one of Juno, concerningwhich Theodorus wrote a The crab was dedicatedto this divinity, and was by her placed among the constella-tions. J Hence the crab occurs frequently on the coins of thisisland. Mionnet gives seventeen such coins, bearing the headof Hercules with the lions skin, and the crab on the they are seen with a figure of Apollo before a tripod,and on the reverse a crab;
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