Note 051
From Chapter 7 of the Decline & Fall

The inscription (which contained a very singular pun) was erased by the order of Licinius, who claimed some degree of relationship to Philip (Hist. August. p. 165); but the tumulus or mound of earth which formed the sepulchre, still subsisted in the time of Julian. Ammian. Marcellin. xxiii 5.

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