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he was deified, might be supposed upon the
spot, when an affair of so much importance
was transacting; and he would be represent-
ed, as is this figure, in the usual heroic habit
of a short chlamys*. The surface of the stone
is so much injured, that all the finer expres-
sions of external character are obliterated; but
the proportions and the general form of the
muscles are of the highest order. There ap-
pears a small hole in front, just above the
clavicle, in which the clasp or knot of the
cloak was fixed. From this ornament we
may suppose a golden cord to have been at-
tached to the upper corner of the chlamys,

presents a Cecrops, biformis, with two faces, male and female.
This device is emblematical of his having instituted the rite of
marriage. On the reverse is a tessera, with the head of Miner-
va. See Haym. Tes. Brit. i. .156.

% The male dress of the Greeks consisted commonly of a tunic
of the same nature as the one worn by females, but not so long,
and over it a mantle, which bore a different name according to
its dimensions. The short cloak was denominated ^Xocy,v^,
chlamys, and was fastened on the left shoulder. It was gene-
rally adopted as a martial habit, and for this reason it is found
on the statues of heroes, and of all the deities but two or three.
The long full mantle, or pallium, served often for the only co-
vering, and when folded double, as it was worn by philosophers,
was called SntKofa, diplois.

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