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2,68 ROM E.
maphrodite■, But a learned Medallist
in Rome has lately fix’d it to Gladius,
whoisso famous for having intruded into
the Solemnities of the Bona Dea in a
Woman’s Habit, for one sees the same
Features and Make of Face in a Medal
of the Clodian Family.
I have seen on Coms the Four finest
Figures perhaps that are now Extant:
'the. Hercules Farnefe, the Penns of Me-
dicis, the Apollo in the Belvidere, and
the famous Marcus Aurelius on Horse-
back. The oldest Medal that the First
appears upon is one of Commodus^ the
Second on one of Faustina, the Third
on one of Antoninus Pius^ and the last
on one of Lucius Per us. W e may con-
clude, I think, from hence, that thcsc
Statues were extremely celebrated a-
mong the old Romanst or they would
never have been honoured with a Place
among the Emperor’s Coins. We may
further observe, that all Four of ’em
make their first Appearance in the An-
tonine Family, for which Reason I am apt
to think they are all of them the Pro-
duce of that Age. They would proba-
bly have been mentioned by Pliny the
Naturalist, who Kv’d in the next Reign,
save one, before Antoninus PuisJmA they
been made in his Time. As for the
Brazen
Brazen Fi
Horfeback
ing of thii
may be do
have cited
for it is, tl
Medal are
are on the
Refemblan
for I have
lion of Do
mpre distir
one, that is
Antonio. I
Lucius Fir.
the Figure
on the Rev
the Figure
is very we
often ftamj
Ohiam'ents
stance oHu
him 5 and w
would omit
nonoiir to
®her revert
his Pa
Antt
Je.Mtowa
Re!§n, the
maphrodite■, But a learned Medallist
in Rome has lately fix’d it to Gladius,
whoisso famous for having intruded into
the Solemnities of the Bona Dea in a
Woman’s Habit, for one sees the same
Features and Make of Face in a Medal
of the Clodian Family.
I have seen on Coms the Four finest
Figures perhaps that are now Extant:
'the. Hercules Farnefe, the Penns of Me-
dicis, the Apollo in the Belvidere, and
the famous Marcus Aurelius on Horse-
back. The oldest Medal that the First
appears upon is one of Commodus^ the
Second on one of Faustina, the Third
on one of Antoninus Pius^ and the last
on one of Lucius Per us. W e may con-
clude, I think, from hence, that thcsc
Statues were extremely celebrated a-
mong the old Romanst or they would
never have been honoured with a Place
among the Emperor’s Coins. We may
further observe, that all Four of ’em
make their first Appearance in the An-
tonine Family, for which Reason I am apt
to think they are all of them the Pro-
duce of that Age. They would proba-
bly have been mentioned by Pliny the
Naturalist, who Kv’d in the next Reign,
save one, before Antoninus PuisJmA they
been made in his Time. As for the
Brazen
Brazen Fi
Horfeback
ing of thii
may be do
have cited
for it is, tl
Medal are
are on the
Refemblan
for I have
lion of Do
mpre distir
one, that is
Antonio. I
Lucius Fir.
the Figure
on the Rev
the Figure
is very we
often ftamj
Ohiam'ents
stance oHu
him 5 and w
would omit
nonoiir to
®her revert
his Pa
Antt
Je.Mtowa
Re!§n, the