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of torment by command of an oracle from Delphi.2 Among the
Romans, during the festival of the Lupercalia held in honour of
Pan, the young married women were struck with thongs of goat's
hide.3 It is however most probable that the scene under consi-
deration is only a representation of one of those frolicsome gam-
bols which were practised during the revellings of a Dionysiac
ceremony. In a bas relief of the Museum Capitolinum, iv. tab. 60,
representing the birth of Bacchus, Silenus himself is occupied in
inflicting a severe punishment upon a young Satyr with a doubled
thong of leather.
This marble, the execution of which is very spirited and expres-
sive, together with that engraved in the next plate, was cut from
the end of the Sarcophagus, the side of which forms the subject
of Plate xxxix in this volume, and the cover that of Plate xl.
The calf of the right leg of the Satyr supporting Pan and the
right arm from above the elbow to the wrist are restorations, the
left leg has been rejoined below the knee.
Height 1 ft. 6| in. Width 2 ft. 2^ in.
2 Pausan. viii. 23. Compare Pollux. Onomast. vii. 33. Meursius, Greecia Feriata,
3 Ovid. Fast. ii. 1. 425-6-7, and other authorities cited, Panvin. de Civit. Roman,
apud Grsev. Thesaur. i. p. 205. It may be added that Macrobius relates that Fauna,
the supposed Bona Dea, the daughter of Faunus or Pan was flogged by her father
with myrtle rods. Compare Arnobius adversus Gentes, v. 18. Lactantius de Falsa
Relig. i. 22.
of torment by command of an oracle from Delphi.2 Among the
Romans, during the festival of the Lupercalia held in honour of
Pan, the young married women were struck with thongs of goat's
hide.3 It is however most probable that the scene under consi-
deration is only a representation of one of those frolicsome gam-
bols which were practised during the revellings of a Dionysiac
ceremony. In a bas relief of the Museum Capitolinum, iv. tab. 60,
representing the birth of Bacchus, Silenus himself is occupied in
inflicting a severe punishment upon a young Satyr with a doubled
thong of leather.
This marble, the execution of which is very spirited and expres-
sive, together with that engraved in the next plate, was cut from
the end of the Sarcophagus, the side of which forms the subject
of Plate xxxix in this volume, and the cover that of Plate xl.
The calf of the right leg of the Satyr supporting Pan and the
right arm from above the elbow to the wrist are restorations, the
left leg has been rejoined below the knee.
Height 1 ft. 6| in. Width 2 ft. 2^ in.
2 Pausan. viii. 23. Compare Pollux. Onomast. vii. 33. Meursius, Greecia Feriata,
3 Ovid. Fast. ii. 1. 425-6-7, and other authorities cited, Panvin. de Civit. Roman,
apud Grsev. Thesaur. i. p. 205. It may be added that Macrobius relates that Fauna,
the supposed Bona Dea, the daughter of Faunus or Pan was flogged by her father
with myrtle rods. Compare Arnobius adversus Gentes, v. 18. Lactantius de Falsa
Relig. i. 22.