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This is eminently the case with the Metopes, which can hardly be later in date than 460 B. C., or pre-Phidian in time.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

A certain pre-Phidian stiffness of handling seems to hamper the workman, as though twenty-three hundred years had been lost for him.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various