Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

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pies erected to ’em, and had their seve-
ral Sets of Worshippers and Admirers.
Thus Ceres, the most beneficent and
useful of the Heathen Divinities, has
more Statues than any other of the Gods
or Goddesses, as several of the Roman
Emperesses took a Pleasure to be re-
presented in her Dreis. And I believe
one finds as many Figures of that excel-
the rest together 5 becaufe the Romans
hadso great a Veneration for his Memo-
ry, that it grew into a part of their Re-
ligion to preserve a Statue of him inal-
most every private Family. But how
comes it to pass, that lb many of these
Statues are cut after the very same Mo-
del, and not only of these, but of such
as had no Relation, either to the Inte-
rest or Devotion of the Owner, as the
dying Cleopatra, the Narciffus, theFaune
leaning against the Trunk of a Tree, the
Boy with the Bird in his Hand, the Leda
and her Swan, with many others of the
same Nature. I must confess I always
look upon Figures of this kind, as the
Copies of some celebrated Master-piece,
and question not but they were famous
Originals, that gave Rise to the several
Statues which we see with the same Air,
me