. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . and commends the care which produced , from the view of the vine, fupported by theelm, he infinuates to her the neceHity and pleafure ofa married life. The goddefs heard all ihis eloquencewith an indifferent ear. Her heart remained un-touched, till, throwing off his difguife, the god af-fumed his youthful beauty, and by his form
. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . and commends the care which produced , from the view of the vine, fupported by theelm, he infinuates to her the neceHity and pleafure ofa married life. The goddefs heard all ihis eloquencewith an indifferent ear. Her heart remained un-touched, till, throwing off his difguife, the god af-fumed his youthful beauty, and by his form foongained the goddefss confent. ^ome imagine Vertumnus an emblem of the year,wTiich though it aflumes different dreffes, accordingto the different feafons, is at no time fo agreeable asin autumn, when the harveft is crowned, and thericheft fruits appear in their full perfedlion and hiftorians fay, that this god was an ancientTufcan prince, Avho firft taught his fubjeds to plantorchards, and to graft and prune fruit-trees j whencehe is faid to have married Pomona. Both thefe deities were unknown to the Greeks,and only honoured by the Romans. CHAP. (6) Bccaiife of the turns or fluifluations to which trade isfiibjeA. (-) Ovid, lib. XIV. THE HEATHEN GODS. 173 CHAP. LX. OF THE LARES AND PENATES, AND GENU. The Lares were the offspring of Mercury. Thenymph Lara having offended Jupiter, by difclofingfeme of his intrigues to JunOj that deity ordered hertongue to be cut out, and banifhed her to the infernafmanfions. Mercury, who wavS appointed to conducther into exile, ravilhed her by the way, and fhebrought forth the Lares (8). Thefe dt-ities not only preftded over the highways,.and the confervalion of the public fafety, but alfoover private houfes, in mofl of which the Romanshad a particular place called Lararium, where weredepofited the images of their domeftic gods, the Ita-tucs of their anceliors, unci the Lares. Their fcftival, cailt d Compilalia, was celebrated i
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