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272 POMPEIANA.
explained whether the instrument was made to turn with
the revolving sun, without which it is evident that it
could not have acted at all; and if so, it would appear
to have been intended for momentary use, and to have
required adjustment whenever made use of.
Page mi.
Picture of Bacchus and Silenus, referred to page
217- Bacchus and his followers covered the ends of
their spears with the pine cone1. The aureolus encir-
cling the head of the principal figure was sometimes put
around the whole bodies of divinities -: though at first
it was peculiar to the Sun, according to Orpheus, as
cited by Macrobius; who also shows Bacchus to have
been the same as the giver of light.
HXios ov Aiwuirw STfixkytrtv Kctt&vcriy.
He is here represented as described by Euripides3; his
long hair scattered about his shoulders, and, like that of
1 Diod. and Ovid.
Pampineis agitat velatam frondibus liastam.
2 Avyn PatrTriro; i, ava Si dfCaw afMBipuyttaa
Upaa-Ss 5*ou.
J Baccii. 455.
explained whether the instrument was made to turn with
the revolving sun, without which it is evident that it
could not have acted at all; and if so, it would appear
to have been intended for momentary use, and to have
required adjustment whenever made use of.
Page mi.
Picture of Bacchus and Silenus, referred to page
217- Bacchus and his followers covered the ends of
their spears with the pine cone1. The aureolus encir-
cling the head of the principal figure was sometimes put
around the whole bodies of divinities -: though at first
it was peculiar to the Sun, according to Orpheus, as
cited by Macrobius; who also shows Bacchus to have
been the same as the giver of light.
HXios ov Aiwuirw STfixkytrtv Kctt&vcriy.
He is here represented as described by Euripides3; his
long hair scattered about his shoulders, and, like that of
1 Diod. and Ovid.
Pampineis agitat velatam frondibus liastam.
2 Avyn PatrTriro; i, ava Si dfCaw afMBipuyttaa
Upaa-Ss 5*ou.
J Baccii. 455.