. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . « >5 ^ N- k- r- £± ^ v r ^ ;~ g ^ <f. .? GREEK SCULPTURE. 171 of both sexes. His limbs are delicateand rounded, and his hips salient, likethose of women, because, according toApollodorus, he was brought up in thehabit of a girl. ^ Ovid mentions thisconformation : Utque putat, prsedam deserto nactus in agro,Virginea puerum ducit per littora forma. His features are sweet, and his physi-ognomical character joy of soul. Ovidthus alludes to his beauty : Tu puer seternis, tu formosissimus altoConspiceris coel
. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . « >5 ^ N- k- r- £± ^ v r ^ ;~ g ^ <f. .? GREEK SCULPTURE. 171 of both sexes. His limbs are delicateand rounded, and his hips salient, likethose of women, because, according toApollodorus, he was brought up in thehabit of a girl. ^ Ovid mentions thisconformation : Utque putat, prsedam deserto nactus in agro,Virginea puerum ducit per littora forma. His features are sweet, and his physi-ognomical character joy of soul. Ovidthus alludes to his beauty : Tu puer seternis, tu formosissimus altoConspiceris coelo; tibi, cum sine cornibus adstas,Virgineum caput est. Riding on a chariot drawn by lynxes, -Tu bijugum pictis insignia frsenis CoUa premis lyncum. p As conqueror of the Indies he isbearded, because he made a vow tolet his beard grow during his expedi-tion. In this figure the ancients com-bined the ideal form of virile age withyouth, and exhibited their dexterity inthe execution of the curls and this character he is always drapedto the feet; and Count Caylus ^ haspublis
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