JVLIEI.

CVRAV .
ERUNT.

FIERE.

SUEIS; which he translates into Sextus, Lucius, Marcus (all three), of the race of Julius, elevated this monument to the glory of their relations.
M.Malosse believes that the mausoleum was erected to Julius, and the arch to Augustus Caesar--the first being dead, and the second then living; and that the statues in the former, in the Roman togas, were intended to represent the two.
He imagines that the subjects of the bassi-relievi on the four fronts of the mausoleum bear out this hypothesis.

That of the east, he says, represents the combat of the Romans with the Germans on the bank of the Rhine (of which river the one on the basso-relievo is the emblem), and the triumph of Caesar over Ariovistus, whoso women were taken prisoners.
The basso-relievo on the south front represents Caesar's conquest of the Allobroges, and the capture of the daughter of Orgetorix, one of the most powerful men of the country, and instigator of the war.