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Something diflferent must have been intended. The tiny form would indicate the class of creatures which Apollo protected till such times as they were fit to look after themselves against the far-reaching bow. Yet even with this explanation. Digitized by Google 14 GREEK BRONZES one feels that there is something not altogether as could be wished in the juxtaposition of the fawn and the deadly bow. Cicero, with an air of deprecation for those who, like himself, valued such minor things as works of... art, says, " Who of us does not know that the statues of Canachos are too rigid to be true to nature ? " The remark applies perfectly to our statuette, which is plainly too rigid to be. true to nature. Yet we may wish that Cicero had gone more into particulars, and left us a detailed criticism which we could have understood. But his remark is at least the testimony of one of the greatest men in the world's history to the effect that Canachos, whatever his faults, was one of the sculptors of Greece whose works were worthy of study.
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