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value of the materials, of which thefe bulla were 
made, induced the poor labourers, as foon as they 
had found one to fell it to the firft goldfmith they 
met with for its real value (however fmali it might 
be) by weight. 
V. 
A little figure like aFaunus, excepting that about 
the head it had fomething of the charader of the 
minotaur, viz. large curls upon the forehead, and 
feveral mufcular protuberances, or tori> under the 
throat. 
VI. 
A figure in relievo of a man fitting with a bowl 
in his hand, which has been thought a Socrates. 
And indeed the features of the face bear a ftriking 
refemblance to thofe of that fage exprefPd in ancient 
monuments j as the bowl might properly refer to the 
well-known circumftance of his death. But the 
other infignia are not fo fuitable to the character of 
the fubjed, as one could wifh : for he holds, partly 
in his hand, and partly under his arm, a fhort ftaff 
full of knots, and curved at the end like a fhepherd’s 
crook, fuch as we find borne by fatyrs in fome Bac- 
chanalian pieces : and the fkin of a beaft appears 
hanging from the feat of his chair. 
VII. 
An antique painting of a mufe, with a capfula 
near her containing fome volumes, from which 
hang labels fhewing the titles of the works. The 
fame reprefentation appears in another painting kept 
in a different part of the palace. Signor Paderni 
obferved 
