si lapis est, senio dissolvitur aut crepat ictu percussus tenui; mollis si brattea gypsum texerat, infido rarescit glutine sensim; si formam statuae lamnis conmisit anis lima terens, aut in partem cava membra gravato pondere curvantur, scabra aut aerugo peresam conficit effigiem crebroque foramine rumpit.
If it is stone, it perishes with age or cracks under the stroke of a light blow; if it is plaster covered with sheets of pliant metal, the cement proves treacherous and gaps gradually appear; if the smoothing file has given the shape of a statue to plates of bronze, then either the hollow frame droops to one side with the pressure of the weight, or a scurfy rust eats into the image and wastes it, piercing it with many a hole.
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