This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... terminal head of the Indian or bearded (1) Bacchus, executed in the hard early style of Greek sculpture. A broad diademcz) crowns the head; and the hair, which in the most ancient representations of Bacchus is often artificially curled, is exhibited in its natural state. The countenance is expressive ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... terminal head of the Indian or bearded (1) Bacchus, executed in the hard early style of Greek sculpture. A broad diademcz) crowns the head; and the hair, which in the most ancient representations of Bacchus is often artificially curled, is exhibited in its natural state. The countenance is expressive of dignity blended with mildness. This head was found in the year 1790, in that part of Hadrian's villa Tiburtina, which is supposed to have been the Pinacotheca. Many valuable marbles were discovered at the same time, and among them was the fine statue of the Discobolus in this collection. Every part of_ this head is antique, except the extremities of the curls which fall on the left shoulder. The term is modern. Height, 1 foot 9% inches. ' Afuopcentsov 3' af"r5v 3oxsiv fr1repxslv, 3m';-r5 360 A: ovzia'ou; ysyovs'vau, -r5v;..Ev 1ranu5v, xa-rmrairywva, 31: -r5-rob; aipxaiou; 1riv-na; mirywvo-rpocentss'iv' rev 3 vsafirspov, uipiov xal rpucentsspov xal viov, xa9o'-r 1rposlpr)ra. Diod. Sic. lib. iv. p. 251, edit. Wessehngii. Aw'vua'o; 3% iv alv-rpzp xaraxsip.svo; ys'vaa gxwv xazl i'x1rwpna Xpua'oiv, ivfisfuxai; E0"r: 1ro3fipn xrriava. Pausan. Eliac. lib. v. c. xix. Item Liberi Patris simulacra partim puerili aetate, partim juvenili fingunt, przeterea barbata specie, senili quoque. Macrob. Saturn. lib. i. c. xviii. 1 11P5; 3% r; En-roz? 1rAzova'zov-ra; oivou xscentsamayia; ral; 1rivouzn yvo;/.s'va;, 3ux'6s3s'a'9au As"youa'w auir5v pl-rpa 'n';v xscentsahjv' nicents' ii; alria; xal u-rpqcentso'pov 6vopw'zZsa'9ou. a'z-/r5 3% rwim; ri; p.l-rpa; finspovi 1rapal-rol; /iaonits5m xa-ra3sX9fivau 1" 3a'z8qu.a (paa'l. Diod. Sic. lib. iv. p. 250, edit. IVesseli
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