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sented in plate 41. The vine leaf above denotes the vine-
yard the crown and fillet near it, are indications of its
being under the proteftion of Bacchus,
Plate 45. ) The vine leaves with lome sort of grain ,
and the rays of light on the top of this plate, indicate, that
the scene is in the country, and in the day time . The
group of figures seem to represent persons returning home
after having diverted themselves at the Lennean Temple.
The one in the middle is dressed like Bacchus; the Faun,
on whom he leans, and the Silenus, who follows him play-
ing on the double ssute, are exa6rly in the state which is
so well expressed by Ovid in these two verses:
Cum redeunt titubant, 6> funt fpetlacula zulgo,
JEt fortunatos obvia turba meant 00,
Plate 46.) It is higly probable that this plate represents a
lover, who, on the day of the Bacchanalian feass: celebrated
in the country, visited the Temple of the Lennean Bacchus,
and palTed the day there in the company of his mistress,
partaking of the diversions the place afforded. After the
repast, which was served up, while the sun was above the
horizon, as the ray of light seems to indicate, and in a place
shaded with Vines, as marked by the leaves which are on
each side of the plate*, he enjoys the musick executed by
the Faun, and at the same time plays at the Sicilian game
called Cottabus . There were different ways of playing at
that Game-, according to Athenseus, Pollux, and the Scho-
liast of Aristophanes that of our plate was the most Am-
ple , and precisely the same as that wich is described by
Aristophanes in his Comedy of the clouds {b) and very like
that
(a) Ovid. Fass. lib. 4. V. 39. and. 40.
(b) In the note upcn vcrfe 1069.
yard the crown and fillet near it, are indications of its
being under the proteftion of Bacchus,
Plate 45. ) The vine leaves with lome sort of grain ,
and the rays of light on the top of this plate, indicate, that
the scene is in the country, and in the day time . The
group of figures seem to represent persons returning home
after having diverted themselves at the Lennean Temple.
The one in the middle is dressed like Bacchus; the Faun,
on whom he leans, and the Silenus, who follows him play-
ing on the double ssute, are exa6rly in the state which is
so well expressed by Ovid in these two verses:
Cum redeunt titubant, 6> funt fpetlacula zulgo,
JEt fortunatos obvia turba meant 00,
Plate 46.) It is higly probable that this plate represents a
lover, who, on the day of the Bacchanalian feass: celebrated
in the country, visited the Temple of the Lennean Bacchus,
and palTed the day there in the company of his mistress,
partaking of the diversions the place afforded. After the
repast, which was served up, while the sun was above the
horizon, as the ray of light seems to indicate, and in a place
shaded with Vines, as marked by the leaves which are on
each side of the plate*, he enjoys the musick executed by
the Faun, and at the same time plays at the Sicilian game
called Cottabus . There were different ways of playing at
that Game-, according to Athenseus, Pollux, and the Scho-
liast of Aristophanes that of our plate was the most Am-
ple , and precisely the same as that wich is described by
Aristophanes in his Comedy of the clouds {b) and very like
that
(a) Ovid. Fass. lib. 4. V. 39. and. 40.
(b) In the note upcn vcrfe 1069.