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Plate 58.) The custom of preserving the Beauty, and
adding to the charms of the face, is of the highest. Anti-
quity \ the antients employed for that purpose different
roots (% and ointments, to which they gave proper names,
as that of Beauty {b\ Love {c\ and so forth.
The Lady represented in this Plate, seems to have
taken from the vase which is at her feet , the subssance
which she is going to apply to her face by the help of
the brush which she has in her hand.
Plate 59 ) In order to obtain the prote&ion of Diana,
surnamed Corythallia, for their male children, they celebrated
at Sparta every year a feast named Titbenidia. The nur-
ses carried the male children to the Temple of the God-
dess, near that of the Graces, on the banks of the river
Tiason. They offered a sucking pig, and loaves of bread,
called Sprites , baked in an oven . These loaves had a
Jpherieal figure whoever assisted at the banquet called
Kopis, which was celebrated only at the feast Titbenidia^
received one of these w. It is highly probable, that the
painting represented in this Plate has a relation to this feast,
A woman carries, and presents a male child . The cista
is loaded with loaves of bread*, the woman who holds it,
has her head bound with a fillet, she carries the lustral
water*, she is the Priestess of Diana who is going to ad-
minister the purification to the woman, and child.
The Cubes placed at the extremities of the altar
call to mind the use which , in remote Antiquity, was
made os this form, to supply the place of sculpture , be-
fore it's invention. Pausanias speaks of thirty cubic stones
placed at Phare 3 town of Achaia , before the statue of
Mercury \ and says, that at fir st the Greeks rende'd to
rude
(a) Hesychius Brentina riiaria \
(b) Homer. Odyjs. 2. v. 191. 192. 193.
(c) Aden. L. XHl C. III. p.sd.
(d) Idem L.IV. CIV. p.ii9.
Plate 58.) The custom of preserving the Beauty, and
adding to the charms of the face, is of the highest. Anti-
quity \ the antients employed for that purpose different
roots (% and ointments, to which they gave proper names,
as that of Beauty {b\ Love {c\ and so forth.
The Lady represented in this Plate, seems to have
taken from the vase which is at her feet , the subssance
which she is going to apply to her face by the help of
the brush which she has in her hand.
Plate 59 ) In order to obtain the prote&ion of Diana,
surnamed Corythallia, for their male children, they celebrated
at Sparta every year a feast named Titbenidia. The nur-
ses carried the male children to the Temple of the God-
dess, near that of the Graces, on the banks of the river
Tiason. They offered a sucking pig, and loaves of bread,
called Sprites , baked in an oven . These loaves had a
Jpherieal figure whoever assisted at the banquet called
Kopis, which was celebrated only at the feast Titbenidia^
received one of these w. It is highly probable, that the
painting represented in this Plate has a relation to this feast,
A woman carries, and presents a male child . The cista
is loaded with loaves of bread*, the woman who holds it,
has her head bound with a fillet, she carries the lustral
water*, she is the Priestess of Diana who is going to ad-
minister the purification to the woman, and child.
The Cubes placed at the extremities of the altar
call to mind the use which , in remote Antiquity, was
made os this form, to supply the place of sculpture , be-
fore it's invention. Pausanias speaks of thirty cubic stones
placed at Phare 3 town of Achaia , before the statue of
Mercury \ and says, that at fir st the Greeks rende'd to
rude
(a) Hesychius Brentina riiaria \
(b) Homer. Odyjs. 2. v. 191. 192. 193.
(c) Aden. L. XHl C. III. p.sd.
(d) Idem L.IV. CIV. p.ii9.