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(76.)
may wash their hands, as soon as her Father should declare
them to be his Guests. In this manner was in general the
first reception of strangers, when they sought hospitality: See
in the Odylsey (aK The woman that holds the bason and ewer,
is dressedlike a Princess, and according to the fashion of her
head-dress, is known to be unmarried. One may presume,
that she is the Daughter of Antenor, as,acoording to Pau-
sanias, he had one called Crino. The sceptre which Antenor
holds, is a distinction to which she was intitled, since at the
same time that Priam reigned at Troy, he was a Sovereign
Prince of a Country situated at the foot of Mount Ida.
The Tsenio that is seen in this plate seems to indi-
cate , that on the occasion of Antenor s being on the point
of receiving thefe strangers, his house would become a sa-
cred place under the immediate protection of the Gods,
the protectors of Travellers, Minerva, Apollo, Venus, Ca-
stor, and Pollux, but principally of Jupiter, called Xenias,
or to signify, that in virtue of the received custom , fe-
stivals would be given by him during the stay of the stran-
gers , which festivals were respected as very holy functions.
Plate 16.) These two figures, well composed, and full
of spirit, are on the back of the preceeding Vafe they
rep esent a Faun and a Baahante dancing , they were
thought to be too good to be omitted, which the figures
on the back part of most of the vases have been, owing
to their being of no consequence, and would only have been
a repetition of such figures as are represented in Plate 3.
It is to be remarked, that although many of the subjesits
represented on these Vases are evidently Historical , most
of them have at the same time some emblem, or other
on them, relative to Bacchus.
Plate 17.
(a) Chant. 1. vcrse 103. 104. 136. and 137.
may wash their hands, as soon as her Father should declare
them to be his Guests. In this manner was in general the
first reception of strangers, when they sought hospitality: See
in the Odylsey (aK The woman that holds the bason and ewer,
is dressedlike a Princess, and according to the fashion of her
head-dress, is known to be unmarried. One may presume,
that she is the Daughter of Antenor, as,acoording to Pau-
sanias, he had one called Crino. The sceptre which Antenor
holds, is a distinction to which she was intitled, since at the
same time that Priam reigned at Troy, he was a Sovereign
Prince of a Country situated at the foot of Mount Ida.
The Tsenio that is seen in this plate seems to indi-
cate , that on the occasion of Antenor s being on the point
of receiving thefe strangers, his house would become a sa-
cred place under the immediate protection of the Gods,
the protectors of Travellers, Minerva, Apollo, Venus, Ca-
stor, and Pollux, but principally of Jupiter, called Xenias,
or to signify, that in virtue of the received custom , fe-
stivals would be given by him during the stay of the stran-
gers , which festivals were respected as very holy functions.
Plate 16.) These two figures, well composed, and full
of spirit, are on the back of the preceeding Vafe they
rep esent a Faun and a Baahante dancing , they were
thought to be too good to be omitted, which the figures
on the back part of most of the vases have been, owing
to their being of no consequence, and would only have been
a repetition of such figures as are represented in Plate 3.
It is to be remarked, that although many of the subjesits
represented on these Vases are evidently Historical , most
of them have at the same time some emblem, or other
on them, relative to Bacchus.
Plate 17.
(a) Chant. 1. vcrse 103. 104. 136. and 137.