Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

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the superstitions adoration of their unworthy
gods.

The height of the fragment is four feet,
and we may judge that of the entire figure to
have been about 7'-—
Tbe Fates, That the three female figures which follow
next towards the north, constituted originally
but one group, is easily demonstrable from
their dimensions, general resemblance, and
mode of dress. Unluckily* however, they are
not sculptured from a single block, and are
therefore liable to a separation which must
totally destroy the effect of the unbroken com-*-
position, and diminish greatly the compara-
tive excellence of each individual statue. M.
Visconti says, <? Je pense que ces trois deesses
sont les Parques an opinion which we shall
not feel inclined to controvert, although there
be some objection to it. The similarity
which subsists between them in almost every
visible particular, will not only show the pro*-
bability of their having formed one party
in the company, but also of their being
nearly allied5 or sisters,-to each other, 3udl