[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER XLI: Conquests Of Justinian, Charact Of Balisarius 33/39
of Childe Harold, p.
302 .-- M.] [Footnote 83: Praxiteles excelled in Fauns, and that of Athens was his own masterpiece.
Rome now contains about thirty of the same character. When the ditch of St.Angelo was cleansed under Urban VIII., the workmen found the sleeping Faun of the Barberini palace; but a leg, a thigh, and the right arm, had been broken from that beautiful statue, (Winkelman, Hist.
de l'Art, tom.ii.p.52, 53, tom iii.p.
265.)] [Footnote 84: Procopius has given the best description of the temple of Janus a national deity of Latium, (Heyne, Excurs.v.ad l.vii.
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