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PLATE IV.
The principal figure in this bas-relief, is Bacchus, who is repre-
sented in the costume he wore after his return from India, namely,
with a long beard, a wreath of flowers round his temples, and a
garment flowing to the ground. He is resting his left arm on the
head of a Faun, in order to steady himself, whilst another Faun is
employed in taking off one of his sandals.(4) Icarus is seated on a
jaceret. Quo cum venisset, super corpus parentis in arbore suspendio se necavit. Ob
quod factum Liber pater iratus, Atheniensium filias simili poena afflixit. De ea re ab
Apolline responsum petierunt: quibus responsum est, quod Icarii et Erigones mortem
neglexissent. Quo responso, de pastoribus supplicium sumpserunt, et Erigonae diem
festum oscillationis pestilentiae causa instituerunt, et ut per vindemiam de frugibus Icario
et Erigonae primum delibarent, qui deorum voluntate in astrorum numerum sunt relati.
Erigone signum Virginis, quam nos Justitiam appellamus; Icarius arcturus in sideribus
est dictus; canis autem Maera, canicula. Hygini, fab. cxxx.
3----et cunctis Baccho jucundior hospes
Icarus, ut puro testantur sidera caelo,
Erigoneque, Canisque.
Tibul. lib. i. Carm. i. v. 9.
Muneribusque tuis laedaris, ut Icarus; in quern
Intulit armatas ebria turba manus.
Quodque dolore necis patriae pia filia fecit,
Vincula per laquei fac tibi guttur eant.
Ovid. Ibis, v. 611.
Icare, Cecropiis merito jugulate colonis,
Pampineus nosti quam sit amarus odor.
Propert. lib. ii. el. xxiv. v. 29.
---qualis Marathonide silva
Flebilis Erigone, caesi prope funera patris
Questibus absumptis tristem jam solvere nodum
Coeperat, et fortes ramos moritura legebat.
Stat. Theb. lib. xi. v. 644.
* See Servius's Commentary on Virgil, Georg. ii. v. 389. Before the ancients reclined
to their meals, it was a previous ceremony with them to have their sandals taken off:
----adcurrunt servi, soccos detrahunt,
Video alios festinare, lectos sternere,
Coenam apparare.
Terent. Heaut. Act I. Sc. I. v. 72.
Deposui soleas, affertur protinus ingens
Inter lactucas oxygarumque liber.
Martial, lib. iii. ep. 50, v. 3.
The principal figure in this bas-relief, is Bacchus, who is repre-
sented in the costume he wore after his return from India, namely,
with a long beard, a wreath of flowers round his temples, and a
garment flowing to the ground. He is resting his left arm on the
head of a Faun, in order to steady himself, whilst another Faun is
employed in taking off one of his sandals.(4) Icarus is seated on a
jaceret. Quo cum venisset, super corpus parentis in arbore suspendio se necavit. Ob
quod factum Liber pater iratus, Atheniensium filias simili poena afflixit. De ea re ab
Apolline responsum petierunt: quibus responsum est, quod Icarii et Erigones mortem
neglexissent. Quo responso, de pastoribus supplicium sumpserunt, et Erigonae diem
festum oscillationis pestilentiae causa instituerunt, et ut per vindemiam de frugibus Icario
et Erigonae primum delibarent, qui deorum voluntate in astrorum numerum sunt relati.
Erigone signum Virginis, quam nos Justitiam appellamus; Icarius arcturus in sideribus
est dictus; canis autem Maera, canicula. Hygini, fab. cxxx.
3----et cunctis Baccho jucundior hospes
Icarus, ut puro testantur sidera caelo,
Erigoneque, Canisque.
Tibul. lib. i. Carm. i. v. 9.
Muneribusque tuis laedaris, ut Icarus; in quern
Intulit armatas ebria turba manus.
Quodque dolore necis patriae pia filia fecit,
Vincula per laquei fac tibi guttur eant.
Ovid. Ibis, v. 611.
Icare, Cecropiis merito jugulate colonis,
Pampineus nosti quam sit amarus odor.
Propert. lib. ii. el. xxiv. v. 29.
---qualis Marathonide silva
Flebilis Erigone, caesi prope funera patris
Questibus absumptis tristem jam solvere nodum
Coeperat, et fortes ramos moritura legebat.
Stat. Theb. lib. xi. v. 644.
* See Servius's Commentary on Virgil, Georg. ii. v. 389. Before the ancients reclined
to their meals, it was a previous ceremony with them to have their sandals taken off:
----adcurrunt servi, soccos detrahunt,
Video alios festinare, lectos sternere,
Coenam apparare.
Terent. Heaut. Act I. Sc. I. v. 72.
Deposui soleas, affertur protinus ingens
Inter lactucas oxygarumque liber.
Martial, lib. iii. ep. 50, v. 3.