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defective as a representation of his moral character. 
This emperor reigned only six months, and therefore 
his busts are rare. He was killed in a mutiny raised by 
his rival Otho’s friend, and his head was cut from his 
body and sold to a freed slave (libertus) who bought 
it in order to insult it before the tomb of his master 
whom Galba had to be executed. 
54. Drusus, was a brother of Tiberius: his life was 
glorious but short, as he died at the age of 39, in 
consequence of a fall from a horse. 
67. Athlete, a statue larger than life. He holds a 
small lance hig in his left hand, while he keeps a 
wand in the other, partly wrapped in a cloth. His 
right leg leans against the trunk of a palm-tree. 
Both the arms ana a part of the left leg are modern. 
57. Drusus, a bust. He was the son of Tiberius and 
Vespania Agrippina: he was assassinated by his wife 
Livilla. 
66. Faun, a statue. He is standing and crowned 
with vine-leaves and ivy, and is looking at a bunch 
of grapes which he holds in his right hand. A little 
panther is at his feet, with one of its paws around the 
trunk of a vine. The right arm and the neck are 
modern. 
79. Julia, Titus’ daughter. This bust is admirably 
well done and preserved. 
68. The Labours of Hercules, a sarcophagus 
on 
which eight different subjects are represented. The 
first is the slaughter of the Nemean lion. Hercules 
is naked, crowned with vine-leaves, and drags the dead 
lion along on the ground. The second is the fight of 
the hero with the hydra of Lerna. He holds his club 
high in his right hand, and with the other he presses 
one of the four serpents springing from the head of the 
hydra. The third is Hercules bearing the wild boar 
of Erymanthus on is shoulders: under the head of the 
beast Erymant half hidden in the bronze Dalius is 
lying, with his hands raised. In the fourth composition 
the hero is naked, and grasps the horns of the Cerinean 
hind, pressing at the same time its back with his knee.