SALA DEGLI ORTI MECENAZIANI 217 was not alone ; the executioner’s assistant^ a Scythian, was squatting on the ground, on the left, grinding the knife upon the whetstone, and looking up with brutal indifference at Marsyas, who, as his drawn mouth shows, cannot with- … and upon us, Fig. 121. — statue of a Scythian (Florence). we may refer to the passage above (p. 72) about the Laocoon. This group probably stood in a temple of Apollo. The style of the Scythian is that of the first school of Pergamon, and the same is true of all the copies of the Marsyas executed,…
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