The antiquities of Herculaneum . Buonarroti Medagl. p*y,&c. However this may be, it is certain that the antients were accuftomed to hangup fhields of gold, filver, and other metals, in their houfes, temples, and otherpublic places, for ornament: and that they carved upon them the heads of their an-ceftors, or fome of the gods. Augujlus adorned the courts of juftice with fliieldsof this kind, which bore the refemblances of thofe who had fignalized themfelvesin the arts of peace or war. Thefe fhields were fometimes quite plain, and fome-timcsinftead of the faces they had only the names of thofe
The antiquities of Herculaneum . Buonarroti Medagl. p*y,&c. However this may be, it is certain that the antients were accuftomed to hangup fhields of gold, filver, and other metals, in their houfes, temples, and otherpublic places, for ornament: and that they carved upon them the heads of their an-ceftors, or fome of the gods. Augujlus adorned the courts of juftice with fliieldsof this kind, which bore the refemblances of thofe who had fignalized themfelvesin the arts of peace or war. Thefe fhields were fometimes quite plain, and fome-timcsinftead of the faces they had only the names of thofe to whom they were ; as will be feen in the next note. [4] Paufanias, v. 10. relates, that in the temple of Jupiter Olympius there wasfixed a Ihield of gold, on which was carved the head of Medufa; ccs-nig %pucr)j, MiW«v T7]v Tcfifom s%acrci s7THpFucr[jiiv/jv: and that thefe four verfes wereiafcribed upon it: Nee©-1 psv (pioihou) yjjwtuv «c Tf Tamils ** Tew huxlotv yiTCag hvviix tm •areAs^w. ftands. )\;crn sea//. PLATE XLVIII. i97ftands a nymph [5] with a bill\p] in her hand; and from hermiddle, inftead of limbs a number of roots extend themfelvesin a grotefque tafte [7], ftretched out and twifted about on allfides. On each fide of the oak is a fmall palm [8]. In the other landfcape, which is an oblong, we may obfervein the firft place a fmall temple, to which we afcend by fivefteps [9]. The portal is adorned with a feftoon: on the frieze Thus tranflated by Amafeus : Ex auro phialam capta pofuere Tanagra, Juverat haec bello quod Lacedaemonios,M Cecropidae, Argivique duces, et Ionica proles<( Vi&ores, partis de fpoliis Kuhnius obferves, that Amafeus is miftaken in faying, that the Athenians putup this fliield in memory of their having overcome the Lacedaemonians: for theywere the conquerors according to Plutarch; and the Tanagrians their allies put upthe fliield from among the fpoils of their conquered enemies; and he makes
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