The antiquities of Herculaneum . gypt, as in AEGYPTOCAPTA of Auguftus. [5] That the Hippopotamus is found in the Nile we learn of Paufanias, in theplace quoted above. Pkilojlratus, Imag. i. 5. alfo, and Lucian, Rhet. Praec. makeboth that and the crocodile to be marks of that river. Herodotus, ii. 71. Diodorus,i. 35. and Pliny, viii. 25. defcribe them as they are here reprefented; and as wemeet with them upon fome medals. Spanheim, de Ufu et Praejl. Numifin. p. the Hippopotamus to be different from the Hippocampus, or Sea-horfe. SeeOlearius upon Philojlratus, Her. c. xix. n. 6. Pliny,
The antiquities of Herculaneum . gypt, as in AEGYPTOCAPTA of Auguftus. [5] That the Hippopotamus is found in the Nile we learn of Paufanias, in theplace quoted above. Pkilojlratus, Imag. i. 5. alfo, and Lucian, Rhet. Praec. makeboth that and the crocodile to be marks of that river. Herodotus, ii. 71. Diodorus,i. 35. and Pliny, viii. 25. defcribe them as they are here reprefented; and as wemeet with them upon fome medals. Spanheim, de Ufu et Praejl. Numifin. p. the Hippopotamus to be different from the Hippocampus, or Sea-horfe. SeeOlearius upon Philojlratus, Her. c. xix. n. 6. Pliny, viii. c. xxvi. obferves, thatthe Egyptians learned the art of bleeding from the Hippopotamus : Hippopotamus in quadam medendi parte etiam magilter extitit: affidua namque fatietate obefus exit in litus, recentes arundinum caefuras perfpeculatus, atque, ubi acutiffimum videt ftipitem, imprimens corpus, venam quandam in crure vulnerat; atque ita pro- fluvio fanguinis morbidum alias corpus exonerat; etplagam limorurfus obducic. or. t P L A T E L. 203or goofe [6], In the trees and herbs, though they have theappearance of caprice, we may however difcover a refem-blance to fome of the Egyptian plants [7]. The fize of thisis forty-three inches by thirty-nine. In the other two pieces the two principal deities of Egypt,Ifis and 0/£w[8], feem to be reprefented, together with fomeof their fvmbols. In the flrft is Ofiris on the right, with the head of a hawk[9], crowned with the tofio], and he has a v:cmd\\ 1] in [6] The duck is efteemed to be the fymbol of winter. See La Chauffe, torn. , v. tab. xx. But fome are of opinion, that the painter has put the duck alongwith the crocodile, to fignify that this creature does not eat at all during four months,as Pliny, viii. 25. and Herodotus, ii. 68. affirm. Others fay, that the duck, livingon land or water indifferently, {Aelian, v. 33,) fignifies here, that the twoother animals, which accompany her, are of the fame amphibious
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