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phin : and in heaven, by breaking the fulmen, or
fiery bolt of Jupiter °.
Cupid was so constant an attendant on Venu$,
that be may be almost reckoned as one of her at-
tributes, — Her other chief attendants are the
Graces and Nymphs. The Graces are almost
always represented naked, like three beautiful
sillers, and connected together; and the Nymphs
are spoken of only in general terms as beautiful
women with loose robes. The Roman poets take
notice of all these particulars. Horace speaks of
the Graces and Nymphs dancing w’ith Venus at
their head. Ovid describes the Nymphs with the
Horae in the garden of Flora, and Statius p em-
ploys them with Cupid to sprinkle ssowers on a
new married couple %
MARS.
° Sometimes Cupid is riding on a centaur, who has his hands
tied behind him; sometimes on a chimaera, &c. to ihow that
Love conquers the fiercest monsters. Neptune’s dominion over
the sea is also denoted by a dolphin in his hand. And so was Cu-
pid’s sometimes, according to an old description under one of his
siatues, which our author saw in a Frankfort edition of Theo-
critus.
P Statius seems to describe the Graces as a woman with three
pair of hands, 1. iii. Sylv.4.
<1 SeeHor. i. od. 32. v. 10. i. od.4. v. 6. iii, od. 19, v. 17.
ibid. od. 21. v. 22. i. od. 4. v. 7. iv. od, 7. v. 7. Ov. Fait. V.
v. 2.C9—220, Stat. 1. i. Sylv. 2. v. 21. These descriptions, had
they been copied by a Raphael or Guido, would have made very
pretty pictures, There is a painting, in Mead’s collection, of
three Nymphs dancing hand in hand. Seneca speaks of the Graces
agreeably to the figures of these three Nymphs, Sen. de Ben. i.
c, 3.
phin : and in heaven, by breaking the fulmen, or
fiery bolt of Jupiter °.
Cupid was so constant an attendant on Venu$,
that be may be almost reckoned as one of her at-
tributes, — Her other chief attendants are the
Graces and Nymphs. The Graces are almost
always represented naked, like three beautiful
sillers, and connected together; and the Nymphs
are spoken of only in general terms as beautiful
women with loose robes. The Roman poets take
notice of all these particulars. Horace speaks of
the Graces and Nymphs dancing w’ith Venus at
their head. Ovid describes the Nymphs with the
Horae in the garden of Flora, and Statius p em-
ploys them with Cupid to sprinkle ssowers on a
new married couple %
MARS.
° Sometimes Cupid is riding on a centaur, who has his hands
tied behind him; sometimes on a chimaera, &c. to ihow that
Love conquers the fiercest monsters. Neptune’s dominion over
the sea is also denoted by a dolphin in his hand. And so was Cu-
pid’s sometimes, according to an old description under one of his
siatues, which our author saw in a Frankfort edition of Theo-
critus.
P Statius seems to describe the Graces as a woman with three
pair of hands, 1. iii. Sylv.4.
<1 SeeHor. i. od. 32. v. 10. i. od.4. v. 6. iii, od. 19, v. 17.
ibid. od. 21. v. 22. i. od. 4. v. 7. iv. od, 7. v. 7. Ov. Fait. V.
v. 2.C9—220, Stat. 1. i. Sylv. 2. v. 21. These descriptions, had
they been copied by a Raphael or Guido, would have made very
pretty pictures, There is a painting, in Mead’s collection, of
three Nymphs dancing hand in hand. Seneca speaks of the Graces
agreeably to the figures of these three Nymphs, Sen. de Ben. i.
c, 3.