Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 213
o are too much for him.The letters on the vase are HO PAI[*] and HOP[A]l*, i.e.6 7rats [KaAd«]; cp. No. 415. The battles between pygmiesand cranes are alluded to by Homer : ■qvre irep KXayyrj yepavwv ireXei ovpavoOi irpj,at t eirel ofiv ^eijUtDca <pvyov ko.1 adeacparov 6/u^pov,KXayyy rai ye… … The body of Cacus lies dead before his cave. Hercules- ids in the middle of the picture, his right hand restingon his club, his left holding the lions skin. Evander ki~- -the hand of his deliverer ; three others stand in the back-ground. Roman medallions are to be distinguished from the largebrass…
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