Chiron and Achilles. The latter of these is standing, and has a
_plectrum_ in his right hand: the former seems to embrace his noble
pupil with his left arm, and with his right hand to strike the lyre,
as teaching him to play upon that instrument. But the most remarkable
circumstance in the figure of Chiron is his reposing his hinder parts
on his left haunch upon the ground. Yet this attitude, as well as the
other particulars mentioned above, is expressed in an antique gem, of
which I have seen a copy at Rome.
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I shall conclude this paper with an account of the statues, which stand
in several rooms adjoining to the unfinished part of the palace, and
were found (as to the far greater number) at or near Herculaneum.
_In the First Room._
An equestrian marble statue of M. Nonius Balbus the elder, which is
intended to be placed in a large entrance on the east side of the
palace, to answer to that of his son, which is already set up on the
other side, facing the bay of Naples.
_In the Second._
Nero and Germanicus, considerably larger than the life, but squeezed
somewhat flat by the weight of the lava, or other ruins, with which
they were once overwhelmed.
A man in a sacrificing habit.
Two others in the toga, and two women in the palla.
All these are of bronze.