The antiquities of Herculaneum . itsmother, or certainly fome perfon who remarks its actions [4].We may venture to conjecture, that the Painter intended for [1] Catalogue, n. 736. [2] His right arm is covered. The tunic, which had a fleeve on one fide only,or as Kuhnius obferves, on the left fide, was called by the Greeks ST£poiuwxpi\%nuv, and was proper to flaves. Pollux vii. 47. [3] This man may either be a fhepherd or fome hero. The feholiaft of Apol-lonius on Argon, iii. 324. fays : crvvrfisg rois rjpucri to $;pfjMTc(popHv. It was the cujlom ofheroes to wear the /kins of beafts. [4] It has
The antiquities of Herculaneum . itsmother, or certainly fome perfon who remarks its actions [4].We may venture to conjecture, that the Painter intended for [1] Catalogue, n. 736. [2] His right arm is covered. The tunic, which had a fleeve on one fide only,or as Kuhnius obferves, on the left fide, was called by the Greeks ST£poiuwxpi\%nuv, and was proper to flaves. Pollux vii. 47. [3] This man may either be a fhepherd or fome hero. The feholiaft of Apol-lonius on Argon, iii. 324. fays : crvvrfisg rois rjpucri to $;pfjMTc(popHv. It was the cujlom ofheroes to wear the /kins of beafts. [4] It has been imagined that this figure may be Melanippe, mentioned in thefragments of Euripides, called by others Menalippe, who having had ieveral childrenby Neptune, fent them to be brought up among the herds of her father Aeolus, 186. But this circumftance alone is infufficient to determine the Paintersdefign; becaufe there have been inftances of others who have been privatelybrought up in the fame way. the *. PLATE III. ii the fubject of this piece, either the education of Achilles [5],the concealment of Neptune [6], or the clandeftine parturi- [5] Almoft all the Poets feign that Thetis delivered Achilles to Chiron the Cen-taur to be educated : and that, being afcerwards tranfported to the illand Scyros, helived there fecretly under a female difguife. Altogether different is the accountgiven of him by Homer, who tells us, that Peleus King of Pthia committed the edu-cation of his fon Achilles to Phoenix. In the ninth book of the Iliad ver. 480, & thus addreffes his charge : In Pthias court at lalt my labours end. Your fire receivd me, as his fon carefsd; With gifts enrichd, and with poffeflions blefsd. By love to thee his bounties I repaid, * And early wifdom to thy foul conveyd. * Great as thou art, my leffons made thee brave ; A child I took thee, but a hero gave. Thy infant bread a like affection fhewd, Still in my arms (an ever-pleafing load) Or at my knee b
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