The commentaries of C. Julius Cæsar of his warres in Gallia, and the civil warres betwixt him and Pompey / translated into English with many excellent and judicious observations thereupon ; as also The art of our modern training, or, Tactick practise, by Clement Edmonds Esquire, ... ; where unto is adjoyned the eighth commentary of the warres in Gallia, with some short observations upon it ; together with the life of Cæsar, and an account of his medalls ; revised, corrected, and enlarged.

The fifth and sixth Medalls.

WE have these two Medalls from Goltzius: whereof one in Greek, hath a Tripod and two starres, the inscription of the head & the other side is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Caesar Imperator, Pontifex maximus, Augur. This Tripod of Apollo hath something in it more particular. Apollo, Augur, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, who is here design'd by one of the starres which accompanies that of Venus Genetrix or Coe∣lestis, shewes that Caesar was assisted in his charge of Augur, and his study of Astrologie, and presaging (whereof the Lituus and the Tripod were the marks) by these two divinities. For Phoebus or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 hath two signifi∣cations, which relate much to his starre and Tripod, that is to say, splendid and luminous, so that he is both foreteller and Augur. But to return to the starre of Venus, or Phosphorus, or (as Philo Iudaeus calls it) Eosphorus, and to this Sun or starre of Phoebus Apollo. It may be conjectured they are placed above this Tripod, to give us to understand, that these Gods should promise the Roman Augur Caesar, by a continuall successe in all his enterprises, the absolute conquest of both East and West.