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In the following one he is bearded, and darts his arrows 
against the Stymphalides, one of which has already 
fallen dead; the other is wounded. The sisth group 
represents Hercules also naked and armed with his 
club, in the act of taking away the girdle from the 
waist of Hyppolita, the queen of the Amazons, who 
has fallen on her shield. Then he is seen again, 
clad in his lion skin, his right hand raised and his 
left grasping the club. Above his left shoulder a spring 
of water is falling from a rock. This is supposed to 
represent the cleasing of the Augean stables. The 
last group which is on the left extremity of the urn, 
represents Hercules vanquishingthe Marathonian bull. 
The hero is nude and grasps the left horn and the 
right leg of the beast, while he keeps his left foot 
upon the head of an hors. Another horse of which the 
head and fore legs alone are visible is lying a little 
aside. These two animals signify Hercules victory 
over Diomede’s horses. This sarcophagus has been 
restored in several parts. 
77. Otho, a bust. He succeeded Galba on the throne 
of Rome, but Vitellius was almost at the same time 
elected by the legions he led in Germany, so that a 
civil war arose and the two competitors met with their 
armies in France and then in the valley of the Po 
where forty thousand people died in one battle, to 
support the ambition of two men. The day after that 
awful carnage Otho killed himself in order to stop the 
civil war, as the best historians affirm, sothat his death 
was lamented by his subjects, and his name was honour¬ 
ed. He held his sceptre no longer than three months 
and died in 69 A. D. aged 37. He was quite bald and 
wore a small round wig, with short and crisped hair, 
As to the artistic value of this bust, Winckelmann 
says it is one of the finest ever seen. 
70. Nero, a bust. Its modelling is remarkably good 
as well as its expression of the perfidy and cruelty 
of this emperor, who soon forgot his own utinam ne¬ 
scirem. His hair is divided into curls, after the fashion 
he had taken from Greece, as Suetonius relates. 
97. The Muse Calliope. Several parts of this statue