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Excursions in Art and Letters

Note 7 — PHIDIAS, AND THE ELGIN MARBLES.

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“Non ex ebore tantum sciebat Phidias facere simulacrum, faciebat et ex ære. Si marmor illi, si adhuc viliorem materiam obtulisses, fecisset quale ex illa fieri optimum potuisset.”—Seneca, Epist. 86.

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