Wonders of sculpture . described by Winckelmann, which represents thetorture of Marsyas. Before the condemned, whois already bound to the tree, is the figure, exactlyresembling the Ar7otijio, of the Scythian orderedby Apollo to flay his unfortunate rival. The samepersonage, in the same attitude, occurs in manybas-reliefs and on the reverse side of numbers ofantique medals. There is no doubt that theGrinder, the Rotator, the Spy, the Cincinnatus, theslave revealing secret conspiracies, are all noneother than the Scythian who put Marsyas to Rome there are two chief collections ofantiqui

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Wonders of sculpture . described by Winckelmann, which represents thetorture of Marsyas. Before the condemned, whois already bound to the tree, is the figure, exactlyresembling the Ar7otijio, of the Scythian orderedby Apollo to flay his unfortunate rival. The samepersonage, in the same attitude, occurs in manybas-reliefs and on the reverse side of numbers ofantique medals. There is no doubt that theGrinder, the Rotator, the Spy, the Cincinnatus, theslave revealing secret conspiracies, are all noneother than the Scythian who put Marsyas to Rome there are two chief collections ofantiquities, in the Vatican and in the will say a tew words of the latter, in which afew beautiful Grecian works are mixed with animmense number of Roman. First we must noticea charming statueof Venus leaving the Batli., Oa^subject of which allows of freer action than wasusual in the goddess whose beauty was all suffi-cient ; next comes a colossal Mars, who is perhapsa Pyrrhus ; then the celebrated Dying Gladiator;. Of THK >^ yiri7BESIT7]

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