A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . anger IS plucking the feathers from his wings. The cause of herexplained by the figure of Mars behind the net in whicli he and Venushad been inclosed by A^ulcan. Love had been the cause of his mothersmisfortune. 222 WOOD ENGKAVING In the following cut Cupid is represented as brought by Mercury before Jove, who in the text, in Athica lingua, addresses the God of Love, as XTMOirATKTS KAI niKPOS—at once sweet and bitter. In the inscription in the cut, AAAA is substituted for KAI. SYjyioirAT KYSAAAAFIKPO. In the next cut Cupid appears pier
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . anger IS plucking the feathers from his wings. The cause of herexplained by the figure of Mars behind the net in whicli he and Venushad been inclosed by A^ulcan. Love had been the cause of his mothersmisfortune. 222 WOOD ENGKAVING In the following cut Cupid is represented as brought by Mercury before Jove, who in the text, in Athica lingua, addresses the God of Love, as XTMOirATKTS KAI niKPOS—at once sweet and bitter. In the inscription in the cut, AAAA is substituted for KAI. SYjyioirAT KYSAAAAFIKPO. In the next cut Cupid appears piercing the sky with a dart, andthus causing a shower of gold to fall. The figures represent persons ofall conditions whom he has wounded, looking on with amazement.
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