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{{See also|Hermes Logios type}}
[[Image:Marcellus Louvre Ma1207.jpg|thumb|right|upright|''Marcellus as Hermes Logios'' in the Louvre, Paris]]
'''''Marcellus as Hermes Logios''''' is a sculpture of [[Marcus Claudius Marcellus (nephew of Augustus)|Marcellus the Younger]] as [[Hermes#Logios|Hermes Logios]], the god of eloquence. It was executed in marble (1.80 meters in height) circa 20 BC (i.e. 2 years after the nominal subject's death, possibly on his uncle [[Augustus]]'s personal order as a funerary monument), and was signed by [[Cleomenes the Athenian]].

Before 1590 it was housed in [[Pope Sixtus V]]'s villa on the [[Esquiline Hill]].  It was bought from the papal collections in 1664 by [[Louis XIV of France]] and placed in the [[Palace of Versailles#Galerie des Glaces|"galerie des Glaces" at the Palace of Versailles]].  [[Napoleon]] brought it from there to the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] in 1802, where it now resides.

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*[http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=2781 Louvre site]

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