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XXXVIII. On the large Silver Coins of Syracuse: by Richard Payne Knight, Esq. V.P.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Richard Payne Knight Esq.
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Among the wrecks and fragments of ancient art and magnificence, which have resisted the waste of time, or escaped the more destructive ravages of barbarism and bigotry, none are so universally allowed to approach so near to abstract perfection, both in design and execution; or so far to surpass all subsequent efforts of imitation, as those large silver coins of Syracuse with a head of Ceres or Proserpine on the one side, and a chariot with four horses abreast, driven by a Victory, on the other, commonly called Syracusian Medaglions.

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Archaeologia , Volume 19 , 1821 , pp. 369 - 378
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1821

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page 370 note a See Proleg. in Homer. §, LVI.

page 370 note b Iconographie Greque.

page 373 note a Των μεν πολιτων μυριους, η και πλειους, ανελων. De fort. Alex. Or. II. The numeral μυριοι is often used indefinitely to signify any very great number: but the addition of η και πλειους proves that its sense is here definite.