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La moza de cántaro

Note 2280 — ACTO TERCERO

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2282. Atlante, a name usually applied to masculine figures in Greek architecture, which, like the female caryatides, take the place of columns. The reference here seems to be to the mythological Atlas, from which word we have the architectural term Atlante. The author used it in the same sense in one of his sonnets:

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