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horses, Pausanias saw them in the Portico of the Temple
at Olympus •, they were not so big as life (a). Valckener
in his notes upon the XV. Idyl of Theocritus quotes an
Epigram, which alludes to these horses of Bronze.
The Column marks the Goal of the course{b) \ Cynisca
has passed it, as is indicated by two branches of laurel,
one of which is placed under the feet of the horses, the
other over the hands of that Princess. This disposition
recalls the obje6l which Agesilaus had proposed to himself-,
he wished to convince his fellow citizens, that the success
of which they appeared to be so proud, proved only the
swiftness of the horses, and the dexterity of the hand
which guided them (c).
Plate 29. and 30. ) Bacchus and Ceres being come
to Attica, that God was entertained by Icarus the Athe-
nian •, as a reward for his hospitality, he gave him a skin
full of wine, and a vine-plant, ordering him to multiply
and extend the cultivation of it Icarius travelled over
Attica communicating every where the instrustions he had
received from Bacchus, He met with a company of Herds
men , gave them some of his wine, of which they drank
to excess *, being recovered from their intoxication, they
were persuaded that they had been poisoned , and they
killed Icarus. His Bitch Moera had accompanied him,
the bitch returned to her master's house , and by her
howling, and other signs of grief, alarmed Erigone the
daughter of Icarus (d) , She followed the animal to the
spot where her father had been killed*, after having bathed
his precious remains with her tears, she inclosed them in a
tomb,
(a) Eliac, L, I. C, XII, (c) Plutarch, Apophtegm, Lacon, Tom, VI. p.7^6>
(b) Paufan, Eliac, L* V, C. XV, 414, Ed, Reisk.
(d) Scholiasi, of Homer in Iliad, X. v. 29.
horses, Pausanias saw them in the Portico of the Temple
at Olympus •, they were not so big as life (a). Valckener
in his notes upon the XV. Idyl of Theocritus quotes an
Epigram, which alludes to these horses of Bronze.
The Column marks the Goal of the course{b) \ Cynisca
has passed it, as is indicated by two branches of laurel,
one of which is placed under the feet of the horses, the
other over the hands of that Princess. This disposition
recalls the obje6l which Agesilaus had proposed to himself-,
he wished to convince his fellow citizens, that the success
of which they appeared to be so proud, proved only the
swiftness of the horses, and the dexterity of the hand
which guided them (c).
Plate 29. and 30. ) Bacchus and Ceres being come
to Attica, that God was entertained by Icarus the Athe-
nian •, as a reward for his hospitality, he gave him a skin
full of wine, and a vine-plant, ordering him to multiply
and extend the cultivation of it Icarius travelled over
Attica communicating every where the instrustions he had
received from Bacchus, He met with a company of Herds
men , gave them some of his wine, of which they drank
to excess *, being recovered from their intoxication, they
were persuaded that they had been poisoned , and they
killed Icarus. His Bitch Moera had accompanied him,
the bitch returned to her master's house , and by her
howling, and other signs of grief, alarmed Erigone the
daughter of Icarus (d) , She followed the animal to the
spot where her father had been killed*, after having bathed
his precious remains with her tears, she inclosed them in a
tomb,
(a) Eliac, L, I. C, XII, (c) Plutarch, Apophtegm, Lacon, Tom, VI. p.7^6>
(b) Paufan, Eliac, L* V, C. XV, 414, Ed, Reisk.
(d) Scholiasi, of Homer in Iliad, X. v. 29.