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POMPEIANA. 169
scarce; and to this day, in Turkey, the erec-
tion of fountains by the road side for the con-
venience and refreshment of the traveller, is
looked upon as a work of pious benevolence *.
We may imagine that he who committed wilful
depredation, or in any way injured them, would
be considered by such conduct in the greatest
degree deserving more than human punishment.
Upon each of the acroteria of the temple of
Nemesis at Khamnus is a representation of a
gryphon pouncing upon a hart: thus intimating
that the retributive justice of that goddess over-
took even the fleetest of animals. The hare and
eagle may be considered a parallel allegory, and
thus an emblem of divine vengeance exhibited:
as a warning to those whom the ordinary principles
of rectitude could not restrain.
PLATE XXIII.
View in the house of the Vestals.
The great court of this house, which backed against
the city walls, must have been very handsome,
as will be imagined from the remaining columns
1 We find Agrippa thus employed himself in ancient Home.
scarce; and to this day, in Turkey, the erec-
tion of fountains by the road side for the con-
venience and refreshment of the traveller, is
looked upon as a work of pious benevolence *.
We may imagine that he who committed wilful
depredation, or in any way injured them, would
be considered by such conduct in the greatest
degree deserving more than human punishment.
Upon each of the acroteria of the temple of
Nemesis at Khamnus is a representation of a
gryphon pouncing upon a hart: thus intimating
that the retributive justice of that goddess over-
took even the fleetest of animals. The hare and
eagle may be considered a parallel allegory, and
thus an emblem of divine vengeance exhibited:
as a warning to those whom the ordinary principles
of rectitude could not restrain.
PLATE XXIII.
View in the house of the Vestals.
The great court of this house, which backed against
the city walls, must have been very handsome,
as will be imagined from the remaining columns
1 We find Agrippa thus employed himself in ancient Home.