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only mention-Two or Three out of _7.z-
venal, that his Commentators have not
taken notice of. The first runs thus,
Mult a, pudiciti<e veteris veftigia forfan,
dut aliqua extiterint,, et fub Jove, fed Jo-
ve nondam
Barbato—— -——-- Sat. 6.
Some thin Remains of Chastity ap-
pear’d
Ev’n under Jove,. but Jove without a
Beard. Dryden.
I appeal to any Reader, if the Hu-
mour here would not. appear much more
natural and unforced to a People that
saw every Day feme or other Statue of
this God with a thick bushy Beard, as
there are still many of them- extant at
Rome, than it can to us who have no
suqh Idea of him j especially if we con-
sider there was in the same City a Tem-
ple Dedicated to the Young Jupiter,
call’d Templum Wiejovis,, where, in all
probability, there stood the particular
Statue of a * Jupiter Imberbis. Juve-
nal, in another Place, makes his Flatte-
rer compare the Neck of one that is
but
* Vid. Ov. de fastis, Li. 3, Ed. 7.
only mention-Two or Three out of _7.z-
venal, that his Commentators have not
taken notice of. The first runs thus,
Mult a, pudiciti<e veteris veftigia forfan,
dut aliqua extiterint,, et fub Jove, fed Jo-
ve nondam
Barbato—— -——-- Sat. 6.
Some thin Remains of Chastity ap-
pear’d
Ev’n under Jove,. but Jove without a
Beard. Dryden.
I appeal to any Reader, if the Hu-
mour here would not. appear much more
natural and unforced to a People that
saw every Day feme or other Statue of
this God with a thick bushy Beard, as
there are still many of them- extant at
Rome, than it can to us who have no
suqh Idea of him j especially if we con-
sider there was in the same City a Tem-
ple Dedicated to the Young Jupiter,
call’d Templum Wiejovis,, where, in all
probability, there stood the particular
Statue of a * Jupiter Imberbis. Juve-
nal, in another Place, makes his Flatte-
rer compare the Neck of one that is
but
* Vid. Ov. de fastis, Li. 3, Ed. 7.