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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 249

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on generally minced their fleps in walking as if they weredancing. See Ovid, Art. iii. 300, &c. and Burman on the pafiage. [io^ All thefe conje&ures have a plaufible appearance; but none of them canpretend to certainty: and as the libidines, the convivia, and all the other… … [ !°5 3 PLATE XXV.tl fT^ H E centaur, whofe upper part is bronze, and lowerJL part afh-coloured [2], has his hands tied behind him,and is in a pofture of running. Upon his back he carries ahalf-naked bacchant, who holds him by the hair [3] with herleft hand, and feems about to pufh him with the…

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