Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 314
A 1HIKST OF LYliKI.K. We further see beside him a scourge, the lashes threadedwith knucklebones (/xuuti^ aa-rpayaXwri))—with these thepriests scourged themselves in honour of their goddess.On the left hangs a pair of cymbals ; on the right atambourine (rwravov), Phrygian double pipes (tibiae),… … The Herm consists of a pillar, the top of which is carvedinto a head and shoulders. The god Hermes, as presiding 270 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCHOOL CLASSICS over human commerce, was represented in this form in thepublic ways and elsewhere, and these pillars served asboundary stones and memorials. From the…
Classical antiquities
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