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PLATE XXXV.
A terminal statue of Pan, playing upon a pipe. He is generally
represented naked, but the long robe with which he is here clothed,
and the diadem which decorates his head, not only evince the
custom, but likewise show us the manner in which the ancients
occasionally clothed the statues of their deities. The practice of
dressing statues was of very early origin. We learn from Plutarch,
that the statues of the Egyptian gods were sometimes robed;(i) and
that this practice was continued in later times is evident, as
Zosimus informs us that Serena, the daughter of Theodosius,
appropriated to her own use a splendid necklace which she took
from a statue of Rhea that stood in the temple of Vesta.(2)
This terminus, in the peculiarity of being represented without
feet and covered with drapery, resembles an image of Mercury
at Phigalia, described by Pausanias.(3).
The.act of breathing into the instrument is so admirably ex-
pressed in this figure, that we may almost fancy we hear the sounds
of the music ; and it is not improbable, that this statue may be a
copy of the one which gave rise to the Greek epigram of Arabius.
The point of this epigram is, that the artist had animated the figure
of Pan, by infusing breath into it.(4)
This terminus, which is of ancient Greek work, was found by
Mr. Gavin Hamilton near Civita Lavinia, in the ruins of the villa
of Antoninus Pius.
5 Plutarch, de Iside et Osiride, c. 78.
1 QscKTa.jj.evrj le tcu rijj Pea; uyah\J.aTi ■nepixglft.evov «r» too Tpa^rjXou x6<r(J.ov, t*js Qelac exelvy;
a^iov uyKTTeia;, irepte\ou<ra rov kyah\j.ct.TO;, too kavTrj; ene^xe Tpayr{\tu.
Zosimi Hist. lib. v. c. 38.
3 'Ev 8e tcu yvfj.vao-'ia> to ayaXpa tou 'Kpfj-ou, afJ.Tre^Ojj.evcu fj.lv eomev 1(J.utiov} xaTak^yei Ss oix
eg %6la;, ec to TSTpayuivov cr^ijfia. Pausan. Arcad. lib. viii. c. 39.
* Hv Taya o-upl^ovTOc Ivapyeu Ylavoc axovsiv.
Ylvev[j.a yap 6 7rAacro;c eyxaTSfj-l^s TV7ru>.
'AAA1 bpowv q>e6yovo-av a\J.r\ya.vo; olo-tutov Hp^co
\h\XTilo; ypv-rfiri (ptjoyyov ctvwfeXea.
Anthol. Graec. torn. iv. p. 80, edit. Jacobs.
A terminal statue of Pan, playing upon a pipe. He is generally
represented naked, but the long robe with which he is here clothed,
and the diadem which decorates his head, not only evince the
custom, but likewise show us the manner in which the ancients
occasionally clothed the statues of their deities. The practice of
dressing statues was of very early origin. We learn from Plutarch,
that the statues of the Egyptian gods were sometimes robed;(i) and
that this practice was continued in later times is evident, as
Zosimus informs us that Serena, the daughter of Theodosius,
appropriated to her own use a splendid necklace which she took
from a statue of Rhea that stood in the temple of Vesta.(2)
This terminus, in the peculiarity of being represented without
feet and covered with drapery, resembles an image of Mercury
at Phigalia, described by Pausanias.(3).
The.act of breathing into the instrument is so admirably ex-
pressed in this figure, that we may almost fancy we hear the sounds
of the music ; and it is not improbable, that this statue may be a
copy of the one which gave rise to the Greek epigram of Arabius.
The point of this epigram is, that the artist had animated the figure
of Pan, by infusing breath into it.(4)
This terminus, which is of ancient Greek work, was found by
Mr. Gavin Hamilton near Civita Lavinia, in the ruins of the villa
of Antoninus Pius.
5 Plutarch, de Iside et Osiride, c. 78.
1 QscKTa.jj.evrj le tcu rijj Pea; uyah\J.aTi ■nepixglft.evov «r» too Tpa^rjXou x6<r(J.ov, t*js Qelac exelvy;
a^iov uyKTTeia;, irepte\ou<ra rov kyah\j.ct.TO;, too kavTrj; ene^xe Tpayr{\tu.
Zosimi Hist. lib. v. c. 38.
3 'Ev 8e tcu yvfj.vao-'ia> to ayaXpa tou 'Kpfj-ou, afJ.Tre^Ojj.evcu fj.lv eomev 1(J.utiov} xaTak^yei Ss oix
eg %6la;, ec to TSTpayuivov cr^ijfia. Pausan. Arcad. lib. viii. c. 39.
* Hv Taya o-upl^ovTOc Ivapyeu Ylavoc axovsiv.
Ylvev[j.a yap 6 7rAacro;c eyxaTSfj-l^s TV7ru>.
'AAA1 bpowv q>e6yovo-av a\J.r\ya.vo; olo-tutov Hp^co
\h\XTilo; ypv-rfiri (ptjoyyov ctvwfeXea.
Anthol. Graec. torn. iv. p. 80, edit. Jacobs.