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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 261

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ge like its fire, and at that tender age is already terrible. Hence it is concluded, that of thiscentaurs two children painted by Zeuxis, one was entirely human, and the otherpart human and part horfe. But this conjecture meets with powerful objections:and Gronovius has corrected the paffage of… … C 3 3 PLATE XXVII. W f | ^ HIS centaur, though perhaps he may feem to one whoJL judges from the countenance only, to be reprefentedby the painter rather as an elderly man than a youth, hashowever no beard [2]; his hair on the contrary is rough anddifordered [3]. By the thyrfus which he carries over…

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