Stammering, practically considered; with the treatment in detail / By T. Bartlett.
- Bartlett, T. (Thomas), 1789-1864.
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Stammering, practically considered; with the treatment in detail / By T. Bartlett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Perieg* also speaks of the vocal statue of Memnon, which greeted Aurora. Tacitust says that the statue of Memnon, on the first beams of the sun shining upon it, pronounced vowels. Numerous inscriptions confirm the above account. On the right leg of the statue is the inscription of C. Lelia, wife of Afri- canus, the Prefect, stating that she heard the voice of Memnon in the first year of the reign of Domitian; and on the left leg is the in- scription of Publius Balbinus, who heard the voice of Memnon. Strabo says, that, when in company with Atlus Gallus and others, he heard the sound of the Memnon. Pliny con- siders the statue of Memnon to be made of basaltes. “ Dimidiomagice resonant ubi Memnone chordet” Yepes| relates that Henry de Vileina had made a speaking head at Madrid, which was broken to pieces at the command of John I], King of Castile. * Orbis Descriptio. + Tacit. Annal. lib. 2. t Juven. Sat. 15. {| In Emanuel de Mourra, sect. 2, cap. 16, art. 6.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33280071_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
