Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . end to end, or open only for the space E G. This dress hasbeen introduced in the ballets at the Neapolitan theatre SanCarlo with very good effect. At this place two subjects taken from paintings may beintroduced, representing two different ways of playing on theharp. Each is curious, as exemplifying a method of playing 570 POMPEII. which no modern nation has adopted. The first representsa female
Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . end to end, or open only for the space E G. This dress hasbeen introduced in the ballets at the Neapolitan theatre SanCarlo with very good effect. At this place two subjects taken from paintings may beintroduced, representing two different ways of playing on theharp. Each is curious, as exemplifying a method of playing 570 POMPEII. which no modern nation has adopted. The first representsa female striking two harps at once, one held on her knee,the other placed heside her on a couch. The curved figureof hoth is remarkable, and may perhaps give a new and. Haip-player using the Plectrum. more forcible meaning to the epithet curva, in the lines ofHorace:— Tu curva recines lyra Latonam efr celeris spicula Cynthise.— CM. iii. 28. The Romans, in speaking of harp music, u?ed the expres- DOMESTIC UTENSILS. 571 sion intus et furls canere,* to sing within and without;unci this expression is rendered more intelligible by the cutfrom a painting given at page 569, from which it appearsthat sometimes, at all events, the harp had a double row ofstrings, as the Welsh harp sometimes has three musician here plays with both hands, without using theplectrum, and the surrounding figures seem to be watchingher with admiration. The other subject, which is imperfect, represents a femaleplaying with the plectrum or quill, f with which the chordswere struck, instead of the fingers. This method of playingwas held in early times in the highest esteem ; afterwards itwas superseded by the use of the fingers, a far more naturaland effective instrume
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