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For the term "metope" is used of the intervals between dentils as well as of those between triglyphs.— The Ten Books on Architecture
Gradually the background is cut down, the space restricted, the figure enlarged until it fills its frame as a metope of the Parthenon is filled.— Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects
The second metope (2) also represents an Athenian subduing a Centaur.— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
The third metope (3) shows an Athenian under very disadvantageous circumstances.— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
The fourth metope (4) has been so mutilated that the figure of the Athenian, which was once upon it, is wholly effaced, and the Centaur has the head, part of two legs, and both arms, wanting.— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

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