Part f. 12v - Sketch by H. E. Fox of Socrates of a book with a face, balancing on top of a pile of books and quills

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Add. MS a/793/f. 12v

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Sketch by H. E. Fox of Socrates of a book with a face, balancing on top of a pile of books and quills

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  • Aug. 1863 (Creation)

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1 single sheet

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Fox, Henry Elliott (1841-1926), Church of England clergyman, missionary, and botanist
(1841-1926)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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The sketch is captioned ‘horrible fate of the man who kept a note book | vide Ovid Metam: VII. 364 et sq.’ At the top is small figure on a cloud, labelled ‘this is νεφεληνερετα Ζευς’, i.e. ‘cloud-gatherer Zeus’.

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      Pasted to f. 12v of Add. MS a. 793.

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