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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 116

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citizens were able to purchase a statue ortwo for their houses and gardens. We shall see in thechapter on Laurentum how the owner of Queen Ele-nas cottage at that little seaside place was satisfiedwith the possession of one, a marble copy of Myronsbronze Discobolus, but only the few who had accumu-… … The bust of Anacreon discovered I)y the author in the Gardens ofCtesar in 1884 taming the wild l^easts. The first numbered ten or elevensubjects, if we add to the figures of the nine sisters thoseof Apollo and of the horse Pegasus; the second, abouttwenty-four, including Apollo, Diana, Niobe,…

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