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 436 History of Art in Antiquity. in this, that neither king nor monster appear to fight in good earnest and for dear life. The attitudes of the conqueror and FlO. ao9. — Pecsepolii. Negro's bead. Flandin and Costs, Ftne amdtmiUi Plate CLVI. the vanquished are tame, conventional, and uniform. Finally, in the struggle where the combat between the lion and the bull Fig. aio.— PenepoUs. Taitar's bevi. /M., Plale CLV. recurs under a symbolic form, though the. general movement is correct, life-like, and even spirited, the general effect of the face