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PLATE III.
A female, one of the guests at the marriage of Pirithous, has
fallen into the power of a Centaur ; she is exerting all her strength
to escape from his grasp, and is at the same time anxious for the
safety of her child, whom she carries on one arm. The alarm of
the child is visible by the eagerness with which it clings to its mo-
ther's neck, and endeavours to shelter its head beneath her hair.
On the same marble is a combat between a Centaur and Lapitha,
the latter of whom appears to have sustained a defeat, having fallen
to the ground on one knee, while his opponent is trampling him
under foot.
Length, 4 feet 1£ inch.
PLATE IV.
C^eneus, one of the combatants who fought on the side of the La-
pitha? was rendered invulnerable by Neptune ;<l) and in his contest
with the Centaurs, though their weapons often reached him, he re-
1 Caenis virgo fuit, qua? a Neptuno pro stupri pretio meruit sexus mutationem. Fuit
etiam invulnerabilis, qui pugnando pro Lapitliis contra Centauros crebris ictibus fustium
paulatim fixus in terra est. Serv. ad Virg. JEn. lib. vi. v. 448.
----nec Caenis in ullos
Denupsit thalamos, secretaque littora carpens
jEquorei vim passa dei est, ita Fania ferebat.
Utque novae Veneris Neptunus gaudia cepit,
Sint tua vota licet, dixit, secura repulsae,
Elige quid voveas, eadem hoc quoque Fama ferebat.
Magnum, Crenis ait, facit hsec injuria votum
Tale pati nil posse mihi, da faemina ne sim.
Ovid. Met. lib. xii. V. 195
KuQtxTTEp ore Kaiv); " Arpaxo; oxara. Suyar^p, /3ouA)j IlocreiScwoj eylvsTO Kaivsu; 0 AuttISyi;.
Antonini Lib. Met. c. xvii.
See Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. lib. i. v. 57.
PLATE III.
A female, one of the guests at the marriage of Pirithous, has
fallen into the power of a Centaur ; she is exerting all her strength
to escape from his grasp, and is at the same time anxious for the
safety of her child, whom she carries on one arm. The alarm of
the child is visible by the eagerness with which it clings to its mo-
ther's neck, and endeavours to shelter its head beneath her hair.
On the same marble is a combat between a Centaur and Lapitha,
the latter of whom appears to have sustained a defeat, having fallen
to the ground on one knee, while his opponent is trampling him
under foot.
Length, 4 feet 1£ inch.
PLATE IV.
C^eneus, one of the combatants who fought on the side of the La-
pitha? was rendered invulnerable by Neptune ;<l) and in his contest
with the Centaurs, though their weapons often reached him, he re-
1 Caenis virgo fuit, qua? a Neptuno pro stupri pretio meruit sexus mutationem. Fuit
etiam invulnerabilis, qui pugnando pro Lapitliis contra Centauros crebris ictibus fustium
paulatim fixus in terra est. Serv. ad Virg. JEn. lib. vi. v. 448.
----nec Caenis in ullos
Denupsit thalamos, secretaque littora carpens
jEquorei vim passa dei est, ita Fania ferebat.
Utque novae Veneris Neptunus gaudia cepit,
Sint tua vota licet, dixit, secura repulsae,
Elige quid voveas, eadem hoc quoque Fama ferebat.
Magnum, Crenis ait, facit hsec injuria votum
Tale pati nil posse mihi, da faemina ne sim.
Ovid. Met. lib. xii. V. 195
KuQtxTTEp ore Kaiv); " Arpaxo; oxara. Suyar^p, /3ouA)j IlocreiScwoj eylvsTO Kaivsu; 0 AuttISyi;.
Antonini Lib. Met. c. xvii.
See Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. lib. i. v. 57.