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Diploma of the Highland Society engraved by Luke Clennell.

Diploma of the Highland Society

Diploma of the Highland Society engraved by Luke Clennell.

"In Greek mythology, a divinity of Asiatic origin, the foster-father of Bacchus, and leader of the satyrs, but very frequently merely one of a number of kindred attendants in the Dionysiac thiasus. He was represented as a robust, full-bearded old man, hairy and with pointed ears, frequently in a state of intoxication, often riding on an ass and carrying a cantharus or other wine-vessel." —Whitney, 1889

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Two Attendants, or Lictors, of a King or Consul

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