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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 214

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f a lotusflower, in a species of metempsychosis, remarks how the rounded outlines of the Bithynian, the slightlycurled hair, and the lovely trace of melancholy are notwithout originality in this thousand-times-repeated por-trait. As regards the calyx of the flower, introducedbelow the bust (sic),… … THE STATUK OF ANTINOUS DISCOVERED PA GAVIN HAMILTONAT PALESTRIXA IN THE YEAR n-r, THE LAND OF HADRIAN 183 so early called away, was supposed still to continue toexist. We have in Rome a monument inscriljed with hisname, placed in a popular and conspicuous position;but its connection with Antinous…

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