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The antiquities of Herculaneum (1773)

Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764, Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825, Lettice, John, 1737-1832, Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780, Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795, Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy) · London : Printed for S. Leacroft ... · leaf 163

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id ; its form is not unlike the fliell in which Venus is faid to have been conceived ;and which fhe made ufe of to carry her on the water. Although in general they feign her car to have been drawn by doves, Sappho hasfurniflied it with fparrows. And Ovid, Met. x. 717, 7 18, with fzva?2s. Ve£la levi… … A.Bannerman/culf- [ 47 ] PLATE XI.[>]

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