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210 beautiful personification of Victory offering a libation to Apollo Musagetes. Among the isolated sculptures in this room, the most worthy of notice are the following: a statue of Fortune (18); a singularly well carved votive statue of a man carrying a round leather bucket, suspended from his left arm; a beautiful statue of Venus (22); a superlatively fine unknown head (23,) supposed to be that of a Titan, highly animated, and looking upward in great agitation; a votive statue (25,) of an elderly man holding a basket of fish in his left hand; an entire terminus of the bearded Bacchus, six feet high (29); the remains of a group of two boys fighting (31,) one of which is entire, with part of the arm of the other, which he is biting, grasped in both hands; they appear to have quarrelled at the game of the talus, as appears by one of the bones called tali being in the hand of the figure which is destroyed; a fine bronze head of Homer (39); a statue of Actaeon attacked by his dogs, in the best style of sculpture; and a Greek sepulchral monument (41,) the basso-relievo in front of which represents a trophy, on one side of which stands a warrior, and on the other a female figure, feeding a serpent twined round the trunk of a tree, on which the trophy is erected. To the right of these figures is the fore part of a horse, and an inscription on the top contains a list of names probably of persons who fell in some engagement.

The fourth room comprises Greek and Roman sculptures, consisting principally of statues and heads of some of the heathen deities and Roman emperours. Among the former may be remarked a bronze statue of Hercules carrying away the apples from the garden of Hesperides; a bronze statue of Apollo; a head of the same deity, of very early Greek work; statues of Thalia and of Diana, and heads of the young Hercules and of Juno; and among the latter, busts of Trajan, Hadrian, and Lucius Verus, and heads of Marcus Aurelius. and Decebalus.