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...personifications of those rural powers who were supposed to rejoice hilariously at the season of the vintage, " When, for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous PAN." A terminal sculptured figure of this deity, horned, in token of his sylvan rusticity, and richly garlanded...