The antiquities of Herculaneum . ere he treats de Mutinifimu-lacris, juflifies himfelf and others who have publilhed the obfeene monuments ofGentilifm, by the condufl of the emperor Thcodojius, and Theophilus bifliop of Alex-andria ; who when they might have deftroyed the flames and other monuments ofthe Gentiles, chofe to preferve and expofe in public the molt obfeene, to expofethat falfe religion to ridicule and infamy ; and to render it by this method the fportand abomination of mankind. See Sozo?nen. vii. 15. and Socrates, v. 16. Indeed,as La Chaujfe has obferved, the mod ferious and refpe
The antiquities of Herculaneum . ere he treats de Mutinifimu-lacris, juflifies himfelf and others who have publilhed the obfeene monuments ofGentilifm, by the condufl of the emperor Thcodojius, and Theophilus bifliop of Alex-andria ; who when they might have deftroyed the flames and other monuments ofthe Gentiles, chofe to preferve and expofe in public the molt obfeene, to expofethat falfe religion to ridicule and infamy ; and to render it by this method the fportand abomination of mankind. See Sozo?nen. vii. 15. and Socrates, v. 16. Indeed,as La Chaujfe has obferved, the mod ferious and refpedtable names, among whomhave been many ecclefiaftics of exemplary life, have made no difficulty of exhibit-ing and illuftrating fuch pieces of antiquity ; encouraged by the examples of theholy fathers, who in their works have fpoken with great plainnefs of the obfeenityof Gentilifm. The learned Leonardo Agojlini dedicated to Pope Alexander VIII. hisantique gems, among which many reprefent Priapi, Phalli, and naked Venufes. PLATE. E 77 3 PLATE XVII. [] TH E twelve pictures which are contained in this and theeleven following plates were found in one place [2].They have all the fame degree of perfection and beauty; andas they are all of the fame kind [3], fo they feem reducible toone fubject [4]. We fhall from time to time offer our remarks [1] Catalogue, n. 531. 4. [2] On the eighteenth of January, in the year 1749, in the fouterrains of theTorre dell Annunciata, at a place called Civita, near which the ancient Pompeiimay be fuppofed to have been fituated, was found a room, on the walls of whichwere drawn, befides thefe twelve pictures here mentioned, thirteen other pieces ;videlicet, fix pieces of grotefques, with a Cupid in the middle, and feven rope-dancers, all on a black back-ground. A description of this room, and its dimen-fions, fhall be given elfewhere. Plates of the dancers, and other pieces of thefame kind, together with explanations of them, will be prefented in the f
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