The left maenad on A and B of the Oxford cup wears the same overgird Doric peplos of Smithsonian, side B and one attributed to the Painter of Athens.
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Overgird
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Yes, and all wholesome herbs, and all fresh dews, by your violent and hidebound frost; but, when the gentle west winds shall open the fruitful bosom of the earth , thus overgirded by your imprisonment , then the flowers put forth and spring, and then the sun shall scatter the mists, and the manuring hand of the tiller shall root up all that burdens the soil, without thank to your bondage.
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Perhaps the most important thing to remember, however, is don't overgird. Girding one's loins too tightly can lead to loss of circulation and, in extreme cases, loss of a loin.
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The flaw with Locke's model is that his identification of black aestheticism was overgirded by the ferment of a single historical moment.
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