Hermes, were blocks of marble about the height of the human figure. The upper part was cut into a head, face, neck and bust ; the lower part was left as a quadrangular pillar, broad at the base, without arms, body or legs, but with the significant mark... Ploutarchou Nikias - Page 56by Plutarch - 1887 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Grote - Greece - 1850 - 620 pages
...broad at the base, without arms, ma;. body, or legs, but with the significant mark of the male sex in front. They were distributed in great numbers throughout...intersection of cross ways — in the public agora. They 1 Plutarch (Nikias, c. 12, 13; Alkibiad. c. 17). Immediately after the catastrophe at Syracuse the... | |
| George Grote - Greece - 1850 - 618 pages
...broad at the base, without arms, mae. body, or legs, but with the significant mark of the male sex in front. They were distributed in great numbers throughout...as well as of temples —near the most frequented porticos—at the intersection of cross ways—in the public agora. They 1 Plutarch (Nikias, c. 12,... | |
| Aristophanes, Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1874 - 296 pages
...; the lower part was left as a quadrangular pillar, broad at the base, without arms, body, or legs. They were distributed in great numbers throughout...as well as of temples — near the most frequented porticoes — at the intersection of cross-ways — in the public agora. They were thus present to... | |
| George Grote - Greece - 1882 - 860 pages
...base, without arms, bodv, or legs, but with tlie significant mark of the male sex in front. They wcru distributed in great numbers throughout Athens, and...as well as of temples — near the most frequented porticoes — at the intersection of cross wavs — in the public agora. They were thus present to... | |
| George Grote - Greece - 1888 - 608 pages
...bod?' °r leg8. but witn tne tity of the significant mark of the male sex in front. They were Hermte. distributed in great numbers throughout Athens, and...situations ; standing beside the outer doors of private nouses as well as of temples — near the most frequented porticos — at the intersection of cross... | |
| Victor Duruy - Greece - 1889 - 394 pages
...was cut into a head, face, neck, and bust ; the lower part was left as a quadrangular pillar. . . . They were distributed in great numbers throughout...the most frequented porticos, at the intersection of cross-ways, in the public agora. They were thus present to the eye of every Athenian in all his acts... | |
| Aeschines - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - 1889 - 316 pages
...bust ; the lower part was left as a quadrangular pillar, with the significant mark of the male sex in front. They were distributed in great numbers throughout...Athens, and always in the most conspicuous situations." Grote, VII., c. 58 in., p. 4 (in speaking of the famous mutilation of the Hermae). — rf¡ сгтоф... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1907 - 814 pages
...pillar, broad at the base, without arms, body, or legs, but with the significant mark of the male sex in front. They were distributed in great numbers throughout Athens, and always in the most conspicuous situations—standing beside the outer doors of private houses as well as of temples, near the most... | |
| Plutarch, Hubert Ashton Holden - Rome - 1887 - 304 pages
...pillar, broad at the 1/av;, without arms, body or legs, but with the £iga:ncact mark of the male sex in front. They were distributed in great numbers throughout Athens, and always in the taoit conspicuous situations; standing beside the outer doors of private houses as well as of temples—... | |
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