Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 898. Fig. 899. Fig. 900. (fig. 900 = Furtwangler Geschnitt. Steine Berlin p. 160 no. 3722 pi. 29 black pastewith bluish band). We are meant to draw the moral : oinnia vincit Amor; etnos ceda?nMs Amori (Verg. eel. 10. 69). Psyche is no match for the matchless countless illustrations I give but two : a convex banded agate in my daughterspossession shows Eros with one foot raised on a step in hot pursuit of a butterfly,the animal form of Psyche (fig. 901); and a flat cornelian in my own collectionportrays him riding her round a race-course, the goa
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 898. Fig. 899. Fig. 900. (fig. 900 = Furtwangler Geschnitt. Steine Berlin p. 160 no. 3722 pi. 29 black pastewith bluish band). We are meant to draw the moral : oinnia vincit Amor; etnos ceda?nMs Amori (Verg. eel. 10. 69). Psyche is no match for the matchless countless illustrations I give but two : a convex banded agate in my daughterspossession shows Eros with one foot raised on a step in hot pursuit of a butterfly,the animal form of Psyche (fig. 901); and a flat cornelian in my own collectionportrays him riding her round a race-course, the goals of which are marked byher butterfly and his weapons respectively (fig. 902). Such allegories, not to say sermons in stones, were keenly relished in the early imperial age. If Eros thusmasters the human soul, he enters into all the pleasures and pains of man. Some-times he is represented as a veritable fay, doing the deeds of mortals with more.
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