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and the Brother of that Hero. Jasbn ost his return being
acquainted with these circumstances, desired Medea to find
the means of revenging him.
This Plate is supposed to represent Medea , who in
consequence of Jason's request went to the Palace of Pe-
* lias, and persuaded his daughters to let their father be
cut in pieces, and boiled, promising, that after this ope-
ration she would give them a liquor, which she posselsed,
and which would restore youth*, Medea seems to have gi-
ven a cup of this liquor to one of the Princesses.
Plate 8., and 9. ) Both these plates are suppofed to
represent Apollo sitting in a winged char, holding a scep-
tre in one hand, and in the other a bason to receive li-
bations , which were made to that God by those who
went to consult him. On the left hand is the Prophetess,
who having made the libation , pronounces the oracle.
She addresses herself, in Plate 9, to a queen, and in Pla-
te 8, to a man ornamented with a diadem, and who ap-
pears to be displeased with the answer of Apollo. Thefe
two circumstances , and that of the Ancients placing in
their sepulchres Vases with such subjests represented on
them , as had a relation to the Rites of Bacchus , gives
room to conjesture, that the person decorated with a dia-
dem, may be Cliftene the Tyrant of Sicyon. It is known,
that he went to Delphos to ask the permission of Apollo
to remove the ashes of Adrastus from the Town of Si-
cyon, and that the oracle having forbid it, he in revenge
published an edist, in virtue of which the chorusses which
were given in that Town in honor of Adrastus, should
in future be destined for the celebration of Bacchus w.
We are induced by the following circumstance to
think
(a) Herodotus L, V. C. 66.
and the Brother of that Hero. Jasbn ost his return being
acquainted with these circumstances, desired Medea to find
the means of revenging him.
This Plate is supposed to represent Medea , who in
consequence of Jason's request went to the Palace of Pe-
* lias, and persuaded his daughters to let their father be
cut in pieces, and boiled, promising, that after this ope-
ration she would give them a liquor, which she posselsed,
and which would restore youth*, Medea seems to have gi-
ven a cup of this liquor to one of the Princesses.
Plate 8., and 9. ) Both these plates are suppofed to
represent Apollo sitting in a winged char, holding a scep-
tre in one hand, and in the other a bason to receive li-
bations , which were made to that God by those who
went to consult him. On the left hand is the Prophetess,
who having made the libation , pronounces the oracle.
She addresses herself, in Plate 9, to a queen, and in Pla-
te 8, to a man ornamented with a diadem, and who ap-
pears to be displeased with the answer of Apollo. Thefe
two circumstances , and that of the Ancients placing in
their sepulchres Vases with such subjests represented on
them , as had a relation to the Rites of Bacchus , gives
room to conjesture, that the person decorated with a dia-
dem, may be Cliftene the Tyrant of Sicyon. It is known,
that he went to Delphos to ask the permission of Apollo
to remove the ashes of Adrastus from the Town of Si-
cyon, and that the oracle having forbid it, he in revenge
published an edist, in virtue of which the chorusses which
were given in that Town in honor of Adrastus, should
in future be destined for the celebration of Bacchus w.
We are induced by the following circumstance to
think
(a) Herodotus L, V. C. 66.