Laudator Temporis Acti

Mary T. Boatwright, Peoples of the Roman World (2012; rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), p. 114:

In Vergil's Aeneid, composed a few years later, Vergil specifies Augustus Caesar, Agrippa, Antony, and the "appalling Egyptian wife" (Aeneid 8.688). He also describes the Battle of Actium (8.671-713) as one pitting traditional Roman gods — Neptune, Venus, Minerva, and others — against Egypt's "monster gods," headed by the "baying Anubis" (omnigenumque deum mostra et latrator Anubis, 8.698). As Actian Apollo threatens from above, all of the "East" flees, terrified: Egypt, India, Arabia, and the inhabitants of southernmost Arabia. In any case, after Octavian's arrival in Alexandria in 30 BCE, only minor skirmishes preceded the suicides of Antony and Cleopatra. With the murder of Ptolemy XV Caesarion, the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, Egypt was left without a ruler and open to Roman takeover.

For mostra read monstra.

Id., p. 115 (caption of fig. 40):

"With Egypt Captured," or Aegupyo Capta, coin. Denarius of Octavian (still called Caesar), struck in 28 BCE. On the reverse is a crocodile facing right, with the Latin legend reading (above) AEGVPTO and (below) CAPTA ("On the Conquest of Egypt," or "With Egypt Captured").The crocodile represents Egypt, which had now been "captured" after the Battle of Actium in 31 and the deaths of Antony, Cleopatra, and Caesarion in 30. British Museum, Coins and Medals: CM.1487-1963. © Trustees of the British Museum.

For Aegupyo read Aegupto.

My copy seems to be a print-on-demand book, because on the last page it says:

Made in the USA
Columbia, SC
31 January 2023

Does this make it any easier to correct misprints? I don't know the answer.

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