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[M.163L]                                                              [M.163]	Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals.	163
                                                                      
                                                                      		3.  "A U I A R I U S Agustus". Imperator.  A globe in rt hand
                                                                      		with "mundus pacis" on it, sceptre in left.
                                                                      The Sixth has again coarsely worked heads.
                                                                      The Seventh: (between the sixth and this, is the first open arch
                                                                      		of the lower arcade.  It is described at p 8 Palace book.
                                                                      The Eighth.  Figure at p 8 {l} Gothic book.  There are no inscriptions on {this capital.}
                                                                      		1.  Arion with a common fiddle, and a cup ending
                                                                      		in a long proboscis like horn.  he is on his dolphin
                                                                      		drawn at p 28 palace book:  He is playing with
                                                                      		a curious Scotch fiddler like twitch of the brow, sway
                                                                      		of the head, and jerk of his ugly pug nose, wonderfully
                                                                      		felt:  Yet no real grotesque approaching that of
                                                                      		the north.
                                                                      		2.  Fig{ure} with curly hair;  ends below in two bears paws
                                                                      		capitally laid upon the foliage;  has a guitar, which
                                                                      		it plays with a beat double stringed bow or plectrum
                                                                      		held between the forefinger and thumb and passing over two
                                                                      		middle fingers while the little finger is bent;  Or I think
                                                                      		the old woman described at p 22 {palace book}, as "drawing double threads
                                                                       		through frame, is playing this instrument - (There can be
                                                                      		no doubt of it, I see, by her companion)
                                                                      		3. A monstrous, but powerfully cut head, fig 1
                                                                      		p 29 l Goth Palace book, founded on a Creole or Negro type

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