. Illustrations of the remains of Roman art, in Cirencester, the site of antient Corinium . Armilla. WOEKS IN METAL. 109 There are many examples of armillse, in the Cirencester museum, fromwhich we may conchide that they were worn by all classes of the people,the value of the metal and the skill of the workmanship being in proportionto the taste and opulence of the wearer. IV. Statuettes. With the classic Roman piety was ever a matter of deepconcern, and he not only attended the festivals of his various deities, intemples consecrated to them, but his own house became as it were sacred tothose
. Illustrations of the remains of Roman art, in Cirencester, the site of antient Corinium . Armilla. WOEKS IN METAL. 109 There are many examples of armillse, in the Cirencester museum, fromwhich we may conchide that they were worn by all classes of the people,the value of the metal and the skill of the workmanship being in proportionto the taste and opulence of the wearer. IV. Statuettes. With the classic Roman piety was ever a matter of deepconcern, and he not only attended the festivals of his various deities, intemples consecrated to them, but his own house became as it were sacred tothose gods, for whom he had the greatest amount of regard or veneration,so that, in order to keep these in perpetual remembrance, ideal representa-tions of them and their qualities were constantly kept before him ; hencewe have Statuettes in bronze of Jupiter, Hercules, Apollo, Mercury, Venus,Diana, and others, finding a place in the houses of the people, and theseconstituted their Penates, or household gods. It will therefore not besurprising that these bronzes should possess so much of the
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