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ROM E.
the little Foundation that such Writers
have gone upon, who from a Verse per-
haps in Virgil's Eclogues, or a short Pas-
sage in a Classic Author, have been so
very nice in determining the precise Shape
of the ancient Musical Instruments, with
the exadt Number of their Pipes, Strings
and Stops. It is indeed the usual Fault
of the Writers of Antiquities,to streighten
and confine themselves to particular Mo-
dels. They are for making a kind os
Stamp on every thing of the same Name,
and if they find any thing like an old Dc-
scription of the Subject they Treat on,
they take care to regulate it on all Oc-
casions, according to the Figure it makes
in such a single Passage : As the learned
German Author, quoted by Monsieur
Bandelet., who had probably never seen
any thing of a Houshold-God, more than
a Canopus^ affirms roundly, that all the
ancient Lares were made in the Fashion
of a Jug-Bottler In short, the Antiqua-
ries- have been guilty of the same Fault
as the Systeme-Writers, who are for
cramping their Subjects into as narrow a
Space as they can, and for reducing the
whole Extent of a Science into a few
general Maxims. This a Man has occa-
sion of observing more than once, in the
several Fragments of Antiquity that arc
still
the little Foundation that such Writers
have gone upon, who from a Verse per-
haps in Virgil's Eclogues, or a short Pas-
sage in a Classic Author, have been so
very nice in determining the precise Shape
of the ancient Musical Instruments, with
the exadt Number of their Pipes, Strings
and Stops. It is indeed the usual Fault
of the Writers of Antiquities,to streighten
and confine themselves to particular Mo-
dels. They are for making a kind os
Stamp on every thing of the same Name,
and if they find any thing like an old Dc-
scription of the Subject they Treat on,
they take care to regulate it on all Oc-
casions, according to the Figure it makes
in such a single Passage : As the learned
German Author, quoted by Monsieur
Bandelet., who had probably never seen
any thing of a Houshold-God, more than
a Canopus^ affirms roundly, that all the
ancient Lares were made in the Fashion
of a Jug-Bottler In short, the Antiqua-
ries- have been guilty of the same Fault
as the Systeme-Writers, who are for
cramping their Subjects into as narrow a
Space as they can, and for reducing the
whole Extent of a Science into a few
general Maxims. This a Man has occa-
sion of observing more than once, in the
several Fragments of Antiquity that arc
still