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The Open court (1887)

Freer, Charles Lang · Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 73

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Finger-ring with an antique intaglio, from which apparently Eras- mus derived the idea of his ‘*terminus’’ device. (After Jortin.) P. 140 “Aspects of Death in Art”. … the shades of Greek poets and philosophers, whose names are inscribed on the silver at their sides, and one of them, accompanied by a pig, is labeled as that of Epicurus himself. Epicurus (that is to say, his skeleton) has a philosopher’s wallet (“‘script’’ of the New Testament) slung from the left…

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