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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3312448, member: 80783&quot;]I would not call Cohen or Eckhel original sources, even if they wrote in the 19th and 18th century <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then Cohen misquoted Julius Capitolinus (or whoever wrote the chapter on the Three Gordians in the Historia Augusta):</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no mention of Gordian II´s forehead or hair in my edition of the Historia Augusta.</p><p><br /></p><p>What he does mention (The three Gordians, Chapter 6, 1.) is that the older Gordian had handsome grey hair, a broad face and a majestic expression.</p><p><br /></p><p>All Capitolinus knew about the features of the younger Gordian is that he had read in the work of Vulcatius Terentianus that Gordian II had the greatest resemblance with Pompeius, but was fatter than him (The Three Gordians, Chapter 21, 5.), and that the younger Gordian was equipped with a reproductive organ of such extraordinary size that people jokingly used to call him the Priapus of his time (Chapter 19.4).<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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