On some also of these medals, in the centre between the three uniting thighs, a female head (namely, of Medusa) is seen. See Panormus. --
The tria crura, and a Medusa's head in the centre, and sometimes with corn ears joined thereto, as upon the above denarius of the Cornelia family ;
also a maritime trophy in a temple, whose pediment exhibits the same symbol of Sicily, appear on certain medals of Augustus, and refer,
says Spanheim, to the defeat ofSextius Pompeius (shortly after that of Brutus and Cassius,) in the straights of Sicily, where this son of the Great Pompey had become a captain of pirates, as Florus states : not to say that Augustus oppressed this young man under the appearance
of Peace, as some wise men view it in Tacitus, and moreover that Agrippa had the better share
in all the successes of that war of which Sicily was
the theatre. -- On a denarius of L. AQVILIVS FLORVS, monetal III. VIR. to Augustus, we see the three legs with the head of Medusa, which
symbolise Sicily, which coin he caused to be struck in memory of his ancestors, the Caii and Manii
who were proconsuls of that province.