Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . giic/tf £**-iS. %4-. ROME. VILLA BORGHESE. without indulging his fancy in imaginary unmeaning orna-ments, and fo he (till takes care to keep to his text. By the great difagreement there is among the antiquaries andcrtticks concerning the latus clavus, and the very differing ac-counts, thofe who take upon them to defcribe it, give of it, itmould feem that it was fome ornament, either woven in thegarment, or very thinly embroiderd on it, fo as not to comeproperly within the provin
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . giic/tf £**-iS. %4-. ROME. VILLA BORGHESE. without indulging his fancy in imaginary unmeaning orna-ments, and fo he (till takes care to keep to his text. By the great difagreement there is among the antiquaries andcrtticks concerning the latus clavus, and the very differing ac-counts, thofe who take upon them to defcribe it, give of it, itmould feem that it was fome ornament, either woven in thegarment, or very thinly embroiderd on it, fo as not to comeproperly within the province of the fculptor; elfe in fuch amultitude of reprefentations of the feveral forts of the Romangarments, as we fee in the antique ftatues, one would think fodifringuithing an ornament as that was, mull have been found,and the matter long ago put beyond difpute ; and the rather, ifit was adiftinct and feparate ornament of itfelf, asFicaroni wouldhave it, and did affirm it to be. What he fhewd us for it, wasnot unlike a fhoulder-belt, but that it feemd to confift of feve-ral folds, and to hang the contrary way, and not fo low; lying
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