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From: Diana Wright <nauplion@charm.net>
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Was at the National Gallery this afternoon, particularly
intrigued by two items of classical relevance:

1.  A copy of Livy printed in Basel in 1549, the margins of
which some English person had annotated with Latin comments
in legible handwriting and little drawings of the events
under discussion, though P. Valerius & T. Lucretius were
dressed as Tudor lawyers & various battlements & soldiers
were clearly 16th C.  It was open to the part where
"Horatius defendit pontem" against six tiny men with very
large heads.

2.  A Renaissance pen & ink drawing of Diogenes with a
plucked chicken.  Can anyone explain the chicken?

DW

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