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ing assisted Augustus in his engagement with
Antony h. His appearance and dress seem to have
been partly of the Apollo Venator, and partly of
the Lyristes. At least the poets in general gave
him a bow in his hand h But in a statue after-
wards made by the famous Scopas, and placed in
a temple in Augustus’s palace, (hence called the
Apollo Palatinus) he was represented solely un-
only used for tablets [pugillares] or pocket-books, called by Ca-
tullus pugillarict) and by Ausonius pugillar bipatens,
Polyhymnia is distinguilhed by some stringed instrument in
her hand, perhaps what the Romans called the Barbiter^ which we
have no name for, Hor. i. od. i. v. 34.
Urania presided over astronomy, and is distinguilhed by the
criestial globe at her feet, and the radius in her hand, 7En. vi. v»
S51. In statues, the globe is sometimes in her hand, and somst-
times placed on a column before her, Stat. Theb. viii. v. 554.
Melpomene was the muse of the stage, and presided over all
melancholy subjedls, as well as tragedies. Hor. ii. od. 24. v. 4.
1. iii. od. 30. v. ult. She is distinguilhed by her mafic on her
head, which is sometimes placed so far backward, that it has
been mistaken for a second face, as may be seen in Montfaucon i.
P1* 59*
b His statue stood on the promontory of Aftium, or Leucate,
•n a place called the Lover’s Leap (Ovid. Her. ep. 15. v. 170*)
and was visible a good way at sea, and revered by the mariners
(Virg. ZEn. ii. v. 275.) to which Augustus is said to address his
devotions before the battle of A&ium.
i Petr. v. 115. ZEn. viii. v. 706. Propert. iv. el. 6. v. 57. 68.
This confusion of attributes, though very uncommon, is found in
other figures of this god, Plin. Nat. rfist. 1. 34. c. 8. Our au-
thor describes here a most puzzling ftatue at Turin, Polym.
p. 94.
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ing assisted Augustus in his engagement with
Antony h. His appearance and dress seem to have
been partly of the Apollo Venator, and partly of
the Lyristes. At least the poets in general gave
him a bow in his hand h But in a statue after-
wards made by the famous Scopas, and placed in
a temple in Augustus’s palace, (hence called the
Apollo Palatinus) he was represented solely un-
only used for tablets [pugillares] or pocket-books, called by Ca-
tullus pugillarict) and by Ausonius pugillar bipatens,
Polyhymnia is distinguilhed by some stringed instrument in
her hand, perhaps what the Romans called the Barbiter^ which we
have no name for, Hor. i. od. i. v. 34.
Urania presided over astronomy, and is distinguilhed by the
criestial globe at her feet, and the radius in her hand, 7En. vi. v»
S51. In statues, the globe is sometimes in her hand, and somst-
times placed on a column before her, Stat. Theb. viii. v. 554.
Melpomene was the muse of the stage, and presided over all
melancholy subjedls, as well as tragedies. Hor. ii. od. 24. v. 4.
1. iii. od. 30. v. ult. She is distinguilhed by her mafic on her
head, which is sometimes placed so far backward, that it has
been mistaken for a second face, as may be seen in Montfaucon i.
P1* 59*
b His statue stood on the promontory of Aftium, or Leucate,
•n a place called the Lover’s Leap (Ovid. Her. ep. 15. v. 170*)
and was visible a good way at sea, and revered by the mariners
(Virg. ZEn. ii. v. 275.) to which Augustus is said to address his
devotions before the battle of A&ium.
i Petr. v. 115. ZEn. viii. v. 706. Propert. iv. el. 6. v. 57. 68.
This confusion of attributes, though very uncommon, is found in
other figures of this god, Plin. Nat. rfist. 1. 34. c. 8. Our au-
thor describes here a most puzzling ftatue at Turin, Polym.
p. 94.
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