Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1832)

44 POMPEIANA.

The chamber O, connected with the faux,
has been thought a cubiculum. It has been
well ornamented, and contains pictures of
Adonis, 27, and of the infant Bacchus re-
ceiving a bunch of grapes from Silenus,
No. 26 ori the Plan. A female, who has
the care of the child, may be the aunt Ino,
or one of the nymphs of Nysa.

A third picture, representing Daphne
overtaken by Apollo, has merit as the best
representation yet seen of that fable. The
god seems to regard his victim with com-
passion; and the laurel does not spring from
her uplifted hand, but rises behind her. This
is marked 25 on the Plan. Some have
called this Cephalus and Procris.

The large chamber 0, in which is the
picture 28, may be supposed to have been
used as the vernal triclinium of Vitruvius.
It must, necessarily, have been a gloomy
apartment, receiving no other light than
that which entered by a single door into the
portico.

The picture 28 represents, as it is sup-
posed, Meleager: if so, he may be returned
from the chase. A winged boy pours water