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reft. This figure feems fitting with its legs ftretched 
out, which are diftorted like thofe of fome dwarfs. 
It has a great head ; the mouth, eyes and nofe of 
which are extremely overcharged. It is dreft in the 
praetexta. Upon the bread: there is the bulla aurea, 
the firing of which furrounds its neck, and is held 
with the right hand ; with the left it holds the ta- 
hlettes called pugillares, on which the ancients placed 
wax, and wrote on it with a ftyle. Thefe pugil- 
lares are exactly like thofe, which I dug up at Her- 
culaneum, and which I preferve in that mufeuin. 
Befides it bears a great Priapus, and behind is feen 
the breech. This was made for a vefiel, fuch as that 
defcribed above, except that befides that the mouth 
of this figure is pierced, the liquor can alfo be poured 
from the Priapus. The third figure is intirely 
like to the preceding, except its drefs, which is 
ruftic, and bound round the waift with a cord, to 
which there is faftened fomewhat, that cannot be 
made out, but which appears to be a little cafe to 
hold fomething : the reft is not overcharged, but is 
ruftic. It holds in its right-hand a loaf, and its left 
hand is covered with its drefs, and, like the other, it 
fhews its breech and Priapus. I am of opinion, that 
fuch veftels wereufed for drinking, the liquor coming 
out of the Priapus, this being not unufual with the 
antients, as Juvenal, in his fecond fatyr, gives us to 
underftand ; Vitreo bibit tile Pri'apo. 
The laft figure reprefen ts the Roman charity. She 
is fitting, and with her left hand embraces her father, 
and with her right preftes the breaft which her father 
fucks ; who is exprefied in this figure totally ema- 
ciated. This doth not, like the others, form a veftel, 
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