The antiquities of Herculaneum . n undreffedthemfelves upon a ftage, and performed in fight of the people movements and gcf-tures the mod obfcene. Valerius Maximus, lib. ii. cap. x. n. 8. Laclantius, i. 20. [3]] The dance favours the fuppofition that it is Venus. Lucian de 10and 11, alfures us, that the Spartans in their dances fung fome little airs, in whichthey invited Venus and the loves to dance with them. Horace, i. Od. iv. Jam Cytherea choros ducit Venus imminente Luna ; Junftaeque Nymphis Gratiae decentes Alterno terrain quatiunt Apuleius in his Aureus Afinus, lib. vi
The antiquities of Herculaneum . n undreffedthemfelves upon a ftage, and performed in fight of the people movements and gcf-tures the mod obfcene. Valerius Maximus, lib. ii. cap. x. n. 8. Laclantius, i. 20. [3]] The dance favours the fuppofition that it is Venus. Lucian de 10and 11, alfures us, that the Spartans in their dances fung fome little airs, in whichthey invited Venus and the loves to dance with them. Horace, i. Od. iv. Jam Cytherea choros ducit Venus imminente Luna ; Junftaeque Nymphis Gratiae decentes Alterno terrain quatiunt Apuleius in his Aureus Afinus, lib. vi. fpeaking of the nuptial banquet ofPfyche, fays: Venus fuavi muficae fuper ingreffa, formofa in banquets was very common ; Homer, Cicero, Lucian, and others, men-tion it. Athenaeus, in lib. iii. cap. xvii. p. 97. remarks, that at all banquets, ex-cept thofe of wile and learned men, who knew how to entertain company with lite-rary difcourfes, women were introduced who danced and fung : and in lib. iv. c. ii. and. PLATE XVIII. Siand necklace [5], her native graces are heightened by thatwreath of pearls [6], and thofe white ribands [7] which bindher flaxen [8] hair 5 by that fine thin vejl of yellow trimmed p. 130. defcribing a banquet, he fays: after the choir of muficians, entered thedancers, forae in the habit of Nereids, others dreffed like nymphs. [4] A very beautiful little bronze ftatue in the Royal Mufeum, reprefenting anaked Venus, has golden bracelets, not on the wrifts, but on the joints of thearms and legs. See Bartol. de Arm. feci. ii. [5] Virgil, Aeneid i. 655. colloque monile Baccatum. and again, 558- It pe#ore fummo Flexilis obtorti per collum circulus is properly the torquis: although the torquis and the monile are frequentlyconfounded. See Scheffer de Torquibus, cap. x and xi. [6] Pearls were the proper ornament of Venus, who is faid to have fprung frompearls in a fea-fhell: hence we often read, that precious pearls were prefen
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