On the front cover of this book is an image of a coin minted in 45 B.C. It shows the speaker's platform (rostra) in the Roman forum, decorated with the beaks of ships captured from the Antiates in 341 B.C., and the tribunes' bench. Above the image is the name of the coiner: ‘PALIKANUS’. It is an appropriate image for a book which has been concerned above all with oratory as a series of occasions which happened at specific times and places and which derived its importance from the fact of performance. However, from that perspective any image of the rostra would be suitable.