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the Trojans. Diomedes and Ulisses were charged with this
expedition . In their way, they meet with Dolon, whom
He&or had engaged by great promisses to go to the
Greek intrenchments to discover, what was palling there.
They pursued him, took him, and forced him to disco-
ver the obje6t of his no6turnal expedition •, after which
Diomedes killed him.
This plate represents Dolon without hope of efcaping,
and when, melting into tears, he says to Diomedes, and
Ulisses,
O/pare my youth, and for the breath j owe
Large gifts of price my father shall beftow
P^aji heaps of brafs shall in your ships be told
^Lnd Jieel well temper d and refulgent gold (a).
The dress, and armour of these personages, however,
does not agree with Homer's description. As to the an-
cient characters on this Vase, the Reader will find a very
learned dissertation on them in a letter written to me by
my very worthy , and deep learned Friend Count Rez-
zonico of Parma, and which interesting letter w ill appear
at sull length in the second Volume of this Work.
Plate 24. ) Diana arrives at Delphos, where she is re-
ceived by her Brother Apollo.
In this plate the palm-tree chara&erizes the persona-
ges , and not the place. Homer says in an hymn , that
Diana went often in a car drawn by her horses fed in
the meadows near the River Meles. In an other hymn,
he says, that the Goddess fatigued with the chace , went
to viiit her beloved Brother at Delphos. There she diver-
ted herself by dancing with the Muses, and the Graces.
Apollo
(a) Horn. II. L. VIII. IX. and X. verf. 449. & seqq. Pope's translation.
the Trojans. Diomedes and Ulisses were charged with this
expedition . In their way, they meet with Dolon, whom
He&or had engaged by great promisses to go to the
Greek intrenchments to discover, what was palling there.
They pursued him, took him, and forced him to disco-
ver the obje6t of his no6turnal expedition •, after which
Diomedes killed him.
This plate represents Dolon without hope of efcaping,
and when, melting into tears, he says to Diomedes, and
Ulisses,
O/pare my youth, and for the breath j owe
Large gifts of price my father shall beftow
P^aji heaps of brafs shall in your ships be told
^Lnd Jieel well temper d and refulgent gold (a).
The dress, and armour of these personages, however,
does not agree with Homer's description. As to the an-
cient characters on this Vase, the Reader will find a very
learned dissertation on them in a letter written to me by
my very worthy , and deep learned Friend Count Rez-
zonico of Parma, and which interesting letter w ill appear
at sull length in the second Volume of this Work.
Plate 24. ) Diana arrives at Delphos, where she is re-
ceived by her Brother Apollo.
In this plate the palm-tree chara&erizes the persona-
ges , and not the place. Homer says in an hymn , that
Diana went often in a car drawn by her horses fed in
the meadows near the River Meles. In an other hymn,
he says, that the Goddess fatigued with the chace , went
to viiit her beloved Brother at Delphos. There she diver-
ted herself by dancing with the Muses, and the Graces.
Apollo
(a) Horn. II. L. VIII. IX. and X. verf. 449. & seqq. Pope's translation.