 DATE: Caesar refers to his nose as "rather long" and "a Roman nose,"  but the idea of a "Roman nose" was not introduced until almost 150  years later, when the Emperor Hardian erected statues of his  favorite, Antinous, throughout the Empire (where many of the people  had never seen a Roman), and Antinouss long nose was taken as  typical of Romans (even though Antinous was a Greek).