The antiquities of Herculaneum . with Jerom on Ezech. chop. xvi. v. 10. and v. 24. in calling the colour of hyacinths azure. [10] Plutarch. Conviv. quejl. ix. prob. 17. fpeaking of the three parts of danc-ing (motion, figure, and expreflion), fays: that figure was the attitude in whichthe dancer remained, for a fhort time, without motion after the dance ; which cor-refponded to the character of the deity, or the bacchant, whom the dancer repre-fented. This dancer then may reprefent Venus, in the acl: of difcovering this calls to mind what Curtius fays, v. 1. § 38. that
The antiquities of Herculaneum . with Jerom on Ezech. chop. xvi. v. 10. and v. 24. in calling the colour of hyacinths azure. [10] Plutarch. Conviv. quejl. ix. prob. 17. fpeaking of the three parts of danc-ing (motion, figure, and expreflion), fays: that figure was the attitude in whichthe dancer remained, for a fhort time, without motion after the dance ; which cor-refponded to the character of the deity, or the bacchant, whom the dancer repre-fented. This dancer then may reprefent Venus, in the acl: of difcovering this calls to mind what Curtius fays, v. 1. § 38. that in Perfia the women cameinto the banquets modeftly drelfed ; as the entertainment proceeded, they began totake off the outward garments and to profane modefty ; at length, growing warmwith wine, they ftripped themfelves entirely naked ; and that this was pra&ifednot only by loofe women, but by matrons alfo, and virgins; who were called com-plaifant and genteel for complying with whatever was requefted of them. PLATE [ 83 ] PLATE XIX. W f s1 H E young female reprefented in this piece, may vieI with the preceding in every refpecl:. Equally beauti-ful and delicate are the lineaments of the countenance : thehair is light, and the very thin garments [2] yellow, whofetranfparent drapery rather veils than conceals any part of thebody, leaving her quite naked from the waift upwards [3], as [r] Catalogue, n. 531. 2. [2] Pollux, iv. 95, (peaking of the dance of the Graces, quotes this verfefrom Euphorion : According to the correction of Kuhnius, who thus tranflates it: The Orchomenon, a dance performed in the drefs of the Graces :and remarks, that the worfhip of the Graces was firft inflitured among the Orco-menii, in Boeotia. Though Horace indeed fays, lib. iv. ode viz. Gratia cum nymphis, geminifque fororibus audet Ducere nuda , on the contrary, writes, that he did not know who iirft reprefented theGraces naked ; for the ancient fculptors and painters cloathed
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