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ingfrom the waves, and seem impatient to run their room xv. 
course. From the east pediment of the Parthenon, ^jsjtiquities. 
No. 67. A female figure in a sitting posture, also 
from the east pediment of theParthenon.This is sup¬ 
posed to be one of the sister Fates, and to have formed 
part of the group already described under No. 63. 
No. 68. The head of one of the horses belonging 
to the chariot of Night, which was represented 
plunging into the ocean on the right angle of the- 
east pediment of the Parthenon, that is to say, the- 
right angle in reference to the spectator. The car 
of Day has been already described, as it was repre¬ 
sented rising out of the waters on the opposite angle 
of the same pediment (Nos. 65, 66). 
No. 69. The torso of Victoria Apteros, or Vic¬ 
tory without wings, who was represented in this 
manner by the Athenians, to intimate that they 
held her gifts in perpetuity, and that she could not 
desert them. This goddess was represented driving 
the car of Minerva, on the west pediment of the Par¬ 
thenon; the car approached Minerva, as if to receive 
her into it, after her successful contest with Neptune. 
No. 70. A recumbent statue, supposed to be of 
the river-god Ilissus. The liissus was a small stream 
that ran along the south side of the plain of Athens. 
This figure, which, with the exception of the Tlie- 
seus, is the finest in the collection, occupied the left 
angle of the west pediment of the Parthenon. 
No. 71. A statue of Theseus, the Athenian hero: 
he 
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