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(8a).
Plate 50.) According to Phurnutus, the Antients were
persuaded that nothing was so pleastng to Rhea, as drums,
tymbals, ssutes,and ssambeaus. The heart, as the princi-
ple of life, was offered up to her {a\ because they believed
that she presided over generation. After what has been
said, we may easily conje6ture, that this Plate represents
a sacrifice to that Goddess.
Plate 51.) In many of the feasts of Bacchus, the ban*
quet was a part of the worship expressly prescribed by
the ritual . This Plate represents one of these Bacchic
Dinners, without any particular circumstance to point out
to which of the feasis it belonged. The man eats alone,
as was the general custom of high Antiquity, The Greeks
called it Monophagia{b). Near the bed is a little altar, there
generally was one in the dining rooms it was desiind
to receive different offerings •, sometimes they crowned
it with flowers (c).
Plate 52.) This Plate represents another Bacchic Dinner,
a young girl plays on the flute, a music which generally
accompanied the Dinner, and the amusements which fol-
io w'd it {d). The Tripod has, amongst other things, an egg
in the middle, a fillet is laid over the whole, to denote
that they were all consecrated .
The egg was looked upon as the symbol of the first
principle that engendered, and containcl the whole. The
Orphic books gave to it the attribute of the most ancient
of all beings •, in the Orgies it was a sacred obje6t (e\ The
vase on the side of the tripod, is full of wine*, that liquor
was necessary for libations after the repast.
Plate
(a) Phurnutus de Natura Deorum p. 146. (d) Idem L.XV. C. I.
(b) Athenaeus L. I. C. VIII. and a Plutarch Quaejl, (e) Plutarch. Sympof. LJI. Prob.III.p.^ 2 2. T.VIIL
Graec. T.VII. p. 204. Edit. Reisk. Edit. Reisk.
(c) Athenaeus L.XI. C.III. (f) Stuc. Antiq. Convivial, p. 547.
Plate 50.) According to Phurnutus, the Antients were
persuaded that nothing was so pleastng to Rhea, as drums,
tymbals, ssutes,and ssambeaus. The heart, as the princi-
ple of life, was offered up to her {a\ because they believed
that she presided over generation. After what has been
said, we may easily conje6ture, that this Plate represents
a sacrifice to that Goddess.
Plate 51.) In many of the feasts of Bacchus, the ban*
quet was a part of the worship expressly prescribed by
the ritual . This Plate represents one of these Bacchic
Dinners, without any particular circumstance to point out
to which of the feasis it belonged. The man eats alone,
as was the general custom of high Antiquity, The Greeks
called it Monophagia{b). Near the bed is a little altar, there
generally was one in the dining rooms it was desiind
to receive different offerings •, sometimes they crowned
it with flowers (c).
Plate 52.) This Plate represents another Bacchic Dinner,
a young girl plays on the flute, a music which generally
accompanied the Dinner, and the amusements which fol-
io w'd it {d). The Tripod has, amongst other things, an egg
in the middle, a fillet is laid over the whole, to denote
that they were all consecrated .
The egg was looked upon as the symbol of the first
principle that engendered, and containcl the whole. The
Orphic books gave to it the attribute of the most ancient
of all beings •, in the Orgies it was a sacred obje6t (e\ The
vase on the side of the tripod, is full of wine*, that liquor
was necessary for libations after the repast.
Plate
(a) Phurnutus de Natura Deorum p. 146. (d) Idem L.XV. C. I.
(b) Athenaeus L. I. C. VIII. and a Plutarch Quaejl, (e) Plutarch. Sympof. LJI. Prob.III.p.^ 2 2. T.VIIL
Graec. T.VII. p. 204. Edit. Reisk. Edit. Reisk.
(c) Athenaeus L.XI. C.III. (f) Stuc. Antiq. Convivial, p. 547.