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tants, and from the soil of which,according to the Abbe Barthelemy, no less thanseventy thousand have really been exhumed. Torealise these figures, we must remember thatPausanias asserts that Nero took five hundredbronze statues from the temple of Apollo atDelphis alone. How many of marble ? I… … Fig. 25.—Venus leaving the Bath. (Rome.) so to speak, the most popular, is certainly thePythian Apollo, better known under the name ofthe Apollo Belvedere, because it was at first placed * We refer the reader to the Itineraire ot Italic, by M. Du Pays,which mentions the different parts of the…
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