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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 328

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other pieces, where the player is fuppofed to be mafterof his art, he is drawn without a pleclrum. However, Apollo himfelf fometimeshas this inftrun^ent, and fometimes not. [5] The heathens believed that mufic rendered the gods propitious, by mitigatingtheir wrath. Cenforinus de die nat. cap. xiii.… … P L A T* E XXXVITI. ,5g the reins are managed by another little Cupid, who holds a obferves, that by the flatue of Apollo at Delos, the three graces are reprefentedwith the fifivda, the tibia, and the cithara, which were the beft known and moilancient instruments, in their hands. The mofi ancient,…

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