. Pompeii : its life and art . tinctly of the worship of the tutelary divinity of Augustus inconnection with that of the Lares, — et Laribus tuum Miscetnumen. On the rear wall of a little chapel in a garden is apainted altar at the right of which stands Jupiter, at the left aGenius, each pouring a libation. We can scarcely believe thatthe Genius of an ordinary man would thus be placed as it wereon an equality with the ruler of heaven ; more likely the Geniusof an emperor is represented, perhaps that of Claudius. Theface is not unlike the face of Claudius, and the painting is on awall decorated
. Pompeii : its life and art . tinctly of the worship of the tutelary divinity of Augustus inconnection with that of the Lares, — et Laribus tuum Miscetnumen. On the rear wall of a little chapel in a garden is apainted altar at the right of which stands Jupiter, at the left aGenius, each pouring a libation. We can scarcely believe thatthe Genius of an ordinary man would thus be placed as it wereon an equality with the ruler of heaven ; more likely the Geniusof an emperor is represented, perhaps that of Claudius. Theface is not unlike the face of Claudius, and the painting is on awall decorated in the third style. In another house (IX. viii. 13) two Genii are painted, andunder one of them is scratched in large letters EX SC, un-doubtedly for exsenatus consulto, —in accordance with a decreeof the Senate. We are probably safe in assuming that thedecree referred to is that of the reign of Augustus, by which theworship of the Lares was regulated ; if so, the figure is intendedto represent the Genius of that ?->? ? :-? i.
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