The antiquities of Herculaneum . Nupt. cap. ii. We may add farther, that the other figuresof the preceding plates (which are indeed not very indecent) correfpond with thisconjecture. [9] There have not been wanting fome who will have this figure to be a others obferve, that figures being put into dancing attitudes is no proof thatthey are really fuch; but that it is rather an artifice of the painters to give an airof lightnefs to their figures, where they are not ftanding upon a ground. Andindeed the women of falhion generally minced their fleps in walking as if they weredancing. S
The antiquities of Herculaneum . Nupt. cap. ii. We may add farther, that the other figuresof the preceding plates (which are indeed not very indecent) correfpond with thisconjecture. [9] There have not been wanting fome who will have this figure to be a others obferve, that figures being put into dancing attitudes is no proof thatthey are really fuch; but that it is rather an artifice of the painters to give an airof lightnefs to their figures, where they are not ftanding upon a ground. Andindeed the women of falhion generally minced their fleps in walking as if they weredancing. See Ovid, Art. iii. 300, &c. and Burman on the pafiage. [io^ All thefe conje&ures have a plaufible appearance; but none of them canpretend to certainty: and as the libidines, the convivia, and all the other conjecturesiucceflively advanced, fo thefe laft have not efcaped great oppofition ; it being ever to form a fyflem which will hold in every refpecl:, efpeciaily on thewhimfical fancies of painters. PLATE /. [ !°5 3 PLATE fT^ H E centaur, whofe upper part is bronze, and lowerJL part afh-coloured [2], has his hands tied behind him,and is in a pofture of running. Upon his back he carries ahalf-naked bacchant, who holds him by the hair [3] with herleft hand, and feems about to pufh him with the ftaff of her [1] General Catalogue, n. 529. 4. [2] Virgil, (Georgic. hi. v. 83.) fpeaking of the colour of horfes, fays: Honefti Spadices glaucique ; color deterrimus albis, Et gilvo. Where Servius remarks, gilvus eft color melinus ; but Ifidore, xii. 1. explains itmore clearly to be color melinas fubalbidus, the colour of honey, butwhitifh. Thegilvus feems to be the fame with the cinereus, or afli-colour, which is called by theGreeks o-7rc5/@w, <riro!$io!.i<&, and o-ttq^oh^s. Ifidore, in the place quoted above, feemsto have made this colour the fame with the dofmus ; for, fpeaking of the colour ofhorfes, he fays: Dofinus di&us, quod fit color ejus de afino: idem
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