Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 387
y indicated in hisportrait on coins.^ With the upturned gaze and thedelicate rendering of the lower eyelid, it gives just thatimpression of power combined with passionate sensi-bility which is recorded as peculiar to the portrait byLysippus. The mouth is full, with a hint of sensualityand even of… … 3 <; >^ pqI < X o LYSIPPUS 227 slight twist of the neck—yet the virile and leonineaspect is that of the great champion of Hellenism, whocould not merely win battles but could spread through-out the civilised world the ideas to which he himselfwas passionately devoted. Beside this portrait…
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