Yet the frequent occurrence of the well-known type with the attributes and sacred animals of various deities, and the epigraphs 'Neos Puthios' or 'Neos Iacchos,' justify us in assuming that he was associated with divinities in vogue among the people who accepted his cult-especially Apollo, Dionysus, and Hermes.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
Madrid is at heart a rude, moral town with little imagination, and the epigraphs on the walls and benches are primitive.
"Cæsar or Nothing"
PÃÂÂo Baroja Baroja
In the hands of St. Matthias and St. Jerome are scrolls; on that held by the apostle, the words, 'Me tenet ara prior'; on St. Jerome's,'Recubo presepis ad antrum', these epigraphs confirming the tradition that the bodies of St. Matthias and St. Jerome repose in this church, while indicating the sites of their tombs.
"Walks in Rome"
Augustus J.C. Hare