Helius 2

ed. David Magie, ed. Susan Helen Ballou

Helius. . ed. David Magie, ed. Susan Helen Ballou. London. 1922.

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Helius (Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Volume 1. Magie, David, editor; Ballou, Susan Helen, editor. London, New York: William Heinemann, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.)

Notes on the current edition

Helius

1. enormior P 3; al' morosior P4.
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4. On the correct form of his name see note to Hadr., xxiii. 11.
5. In 136; see Hadr., xxiii. 10.
6. The biographer seems to be thinking of the testamentary adoption of Octavian by Julius Caesar.
7. Trajan, on his adoption, did not assume the name Caesar; this seems to be the only difference.
8. The elephant appears as an emblem on a coin of Julius Caesar; see Cohen, i2, p. 17, No. 49.
9. A caeso matris utero dictus, Plin., Nat. Hist., vii. 47.
10. i.e., caesaries. This etymology is given by Festus, p. 57,