The antiquities of Herculaneum . PLATE XXXIII. 139 The other picture exhibits three boys diverting themfelves ata play commonly called hide and feek [8]. The attitudes o£thefe three little figures are all elegant and expreflive [9]. The Circenfian games being in the greareft efteen^ boys were freely accuftom-ed by their fathers to this play. See Rhodiginus, left, ant. lib. xviii. cap,, xxvhPhotius in No?nocanone, tit. xiii. c. xxix. reckons among prohibited games ittttikccfyjXivot, Equejlres ligneos, as they are called in /. iii. cap. de Aleatoribus. Balfamonyin his comment upon this paffage o
The antiquities of Herculaneum . PLATE XXXIII. 139 The other picture exhibits three boys diverting themfelves ata play commonly called hide and feek [8]. The attitudes o£thefe three little figures are all elegant and expreflive [9]. The Circenfian games being in the greareft efteen^ boys were freely accuftom-ed by their fathers to this play. See Rhodiginus, left, ant. lib. xviii. cap,, xxvhPhotius in No?nocanone, tit. xiii. c. xxix. reckons among prohibited games ittttikccfyjXivot, Equejlres ligneos, as they are called in /. iii. cap. de Aleatoribus. Balfamonyin his comment upon this paffage of Photius-, fays, that a doubt has arifen about thisplay called ^vXtvov itvkckov, and fome are of opinion that it was a game which**? ufed to be played at by boys, who in driving the chariot made ufe of men inftead of horfes. But he goes on to fay, that it was- fuppofed by others to be anotherfort of play. Pollux, x. fegm. 168. fpeaks of a carriage (xpoifys, k^u^iov) withwhich children ufed to play and divert themfelves. [8]
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