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of a boy strangling a goose, the work of Boethus, and this is the
subject of a little bronze figure in the Museum, and of another4 of
a youth in marble in the Museum at Naples. Whether these
groups had any symbolical meaning it is not safe to assert, as va-
rious authors who have thought the subject worthy of their at-
tention have differed in their interpretations, and have suggested
explanations which do not convey conviction to the readers. It
only remains then to describe these subjects as they appear before
us, leaving to each person the privilege of indulging his ingenuity
in discovering the artist's latent intentions. This figure, the upper
part of which takes the form of a young girl, is well but not finely
executed; and its general appearance is damaged from the dis-
coloration it has suffered from having long lain amongst a quantity
of decayed wood in a swamp near the lake of Nemi in the neigh-
bourhood of Rome, where it was discovered in the year 1774.
Height of antique portion 3 ft. 4^ in.
4 Mus. Borbonic. xi. tav. 20.
of a boy strangling a goose, the work of Boethus, and this is the
subject of a little bronze figure in the Museum, and of another4 of
a youth in marble in the Museum at Naples. Whether these
groups had any symbolical meaning it is not safe to assert, as va-
rious authors who have thought the subject worthy of their at-
tention have differed in their interpretations, and have suggested
explanations which do not convey conviction to the readers. It
only remains then to describe these subjects as they appear before
us, leaving to each person the privilege of indulging his ingenuity
in discovering the artist's latent intentions. This figure, the upper
part of which takes the form of a young girl, is well but not finely
executed; and its general appearance is damaged from the dis-
coloration it has suffered from having long lain amongst a quantity
of decayed wood in a swamp near the lake of Nemi in the neigh-
bourhood of Rome, where it was discovered in the year 1774.
Height of antique portion 3 ft. 4^ in.
4 Mus. Borbonic. xi. tav. 20.