Item si qua virili figura signa mutulos aut coronas sustinent, nostri telamones appellant, cuius rationes, quid ita aut quare dicantur, ex historiis non inveniuntur, Graeci vero eos atlantas vocitant.
Again, if statues of the male figure support brackets or cornices, we call them telamones, nor do we find in any treatises what they are and why they are so called. But the Greeks call them Atlantes.
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