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carried to the East, enjoying by that means in the night
his repose after the fatigues of the day. Lastly one must
remark, that the artist, who first had the idea of giving
a winged char to Apollo, might have taken it from what
Plato says of Jupiter in one of his Dialogues called Phse-
drus{a), whom he describes occupied with the care of main-
taining good order in the Universe, mounted in a winged
char, and accompanied by all the Deities except the God-
dess Vesta. This supposition becomes very probable , as
Jupiter, and Apollo have been sometimes looked upon as
one, and the same Divinity. Macrobius ^ is of opinion,
that Homer in the place were he says(c) that Jupiter went
to the borders of the Ocean to the wise Ethiopeans, means
but one , and the same Divinity under the names of Ju-
piter , the sun or Apollo. He believes also, that Plato, in
the above mentioned Dialogue , speaks of the Sun under
the name of Jupiter, and that they stiled him Jupiter of
Heliopolis, the Town of the Sun.
In a following volume of this work the reader will
find a plate, that reprefents likewise a perlbn sitting in a
winged char, differing in one smgle point only from that
which is seen in these plates A^8.£?9. There that person
holds a sceptre and three stalks of corn in his lest hand.
At first sight the reader might be induced to believe, that
these three plates represented the same subjeft, and that
it was Triptolemus teaching mortals the art of Agriculture',
and that of course the interpretation that we give here,
is void of foundation. However, that indu&ion does not
seem to be just, as will appear by the following reasons.
Macrobius says in B. I., that the image of the God Apollo
adored at Heliopolis under the name of Jupiter, had the
(a) P. 146. edit, de Serramis Tern. 3. (c) The Iliad Book 1. v<rse 41$.
(b) L. 1. ch. 23.
carried to the East, enjoying by that means in the night
his repose after the fatigues of the day. Lastly one must
remark, that the artist, who first had the idea of giving
a winged char to Apollo, might have taken it from what
Plato says of Jupiter in one of his Dialogues called Phse-
drus{a), whom he describes occupied with the care of main-
taining good order in the Universe, mounted in a winged
char, and accompanied by all the Deities except the God-
dess Vesta. This supposition becomes very probable , as
Jupiter, and Apollo have been sometimes looked upon as
one, and the same Divinity. Macrobius ^ is of opinion,
that Homer in the place were he says(c) that Jupiter went
to the borders of the Ocean to the wise Ethiopeans, means
but one , and the same Divinity under the names of Ju-
piter , the sun or Apollo. He believes also, that Plato, in
the above mentioned Dialogue , speaks of the Sun under
the name of Jupiter, and that they stiled him Jupiter of
Heliopolis, the Town of the Sun.
In a following volume of this work the reader will
find a plate, that reprefents likewise a perlbn sitting in a
winged char, differing in one smgle point only from that
which is seen in these plates A^8.£?9. There that person
holds a sceptre and three stalks of corn in his lest hand.
At first sight the reader might be induced to believe, that
these three plates represented the same subjeft, and that
it was Triptolemus teaching mortals the art of Agriculture',
and that of course the interpretation that we give here,
is void of foundation. However, that indu&ion does not
seem to be just, as will appear by the following reasons.
Macrobius says in B. I., that the image of the God Apollo
adored at Heliopolis under the name of Jupiter, had the
(a) P. 146. edit, de Serramis Tern. 3. (c) The Iliad Book 1. v<rse 41$.
(b) L. 1. ch. 23.