Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton; with engraved borders . [^I^BI[ai[^]|MIEIIMIPJ[BlltaB[Mll^ll^l[Bl[MIIBII^|[g|[lI VVSXVVSM V^5^^^ pi-ja. [S3] This manner of being armed was common to both horseand foot. The vine leaf in the hand of the bacchante is emblema-tical of the god. PLATE L. This design represents a festival in honour of Bacchus,and consists of both sexes, who seldom or never weretogether except in the feasts, consecrated to the gods. Thereis a genius attending them, with the vine branch hangingover t
Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton; with engraved borders . [^I^BI[ai[^]|MIEIIMIPJ[BlltaB[Mll^ll^l[Bl[MIIBII^|[g|[lI VVSXVVSM V^5^^^ pi-ja. [S3] This manner of being armed was common to both horseand foot. The vine leaf in the hand of the bacchante is emblema-tical of the god. PLATE L. This design represents a festival in honour of Bacchus,and consists of both sexes, who seldom or never weretogether except in the feasts, consecrated to the gods. Thereis a genius attending them, with the vine branch hangingover their heads. PLATE LI. We may discover in this design the remains of two indi-cations of Bacchus ; the one is the vine leaf, and theother is a globe within a disk, and held by the figure of anAcratus, the genius of drunkards. From the size of thisrelic, it must not be taken for, or confounded with, amirror. The cupboard, or tabemaculum, whence this hasbeen taken, is still open ; and two branches of myrtle areplaced upon a flat dish or crater, which is in the hands ofa female figure ; she has also in her other hand one of thesame crowns or wreaths as the genius holds ; these arecalled lemniscata. The other indication
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