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If these, and many other exploits 4 attributed
to Hercules, be considered, one would think his
whole life had been spent in hardships, from his
birth to his agonies on Mount Oeta. This last
scene of his glorious life is fully described by
Ovid, who, after giving an account of his suffer-
ings, describes his assumption into heaven, and
takes notice of his personage as enlarged, and ren-
dered more august u.
This famous hero had very great faults, as
well as very great virtues. He was a Have to
women 5 he drank as immeasurably as he fought
part of the story, in which Cacus Teems to have made an ignomi-
nious sigure, ZEn. viii. v. 267. Juv. sat. v. v. 127.
In the Sampieri palace at Bologna, there are three ceilings
painted by the three Caraches, on one os which is the fiory of
Cacus, to whom is given a human body, with the head of a beast,
possibly from some antique; for Virgil calls Cacus a monster,
and half-man and half-beast, TEn. viii. v. 194. 198. 267.
1 Such as his bearing the heavens, Met. ix. v. 198. His con-
quering the Centaurs, j®n. viii. v. 294. His killing Busiris,
Met. ix. v. 183. Mart. ix. ep. 102. His taking several cities in
Europe and Asia, TEn. viii. v. 290.
u Met. ix. v. 168. This is whilst labouring under the tor-
ments of the poisoned shirt. Aster he had made his funeral pile,
and laid down on it, he is quite composed, ibid. v. 238. Silius
mentions a sine relievo os him on the funeral pile, iii. v. 43.
and Pliny speaks of a celebrated statue of Hercules in torments at
Rome, Piin. 1. 34. c. 8. There is now a very fine one in the
Barbarini palace, of a high Greek taste, the face of which ex-
prelses the agonies he suffered. Pliny mentions a famous picture
in his time os his assumption, in the portico of Odtavia. Ovid’s,
account tallies exactly with Pliny’s.
courage*
If these, and many other exploits 4 attributed
to Hercules, be considered, one would think his
whole life had been spent in hardships, from his
birth to his agonies on Mount Oeta. This last
scene of his glorious life is fully described by
Ovid, who, after giving an account of his suffer-
ings, describes his assumption into heaven, and
takes notice of his personage as enlarged, and ren-
dered more august u.
This famous hero had very great faults, as
well as very great virtues. He was a Have to
women 5 he drank as immeasurably as he fought
part of the story, in which Cacus Teems to have made an ignomi-
nious sigure, ZEn. viii. v. 267. Juv. sat. v. v. 127.
In the Sampieri palace at Bologna, there are three ceilings
painted by the three Caraches, on one os which is the fiory of
Cacus, to whom is given a human body, with the head of a beast,
possibly from some antique; for Virgil calls Cacus a monster,
and half-man and half-beast, TEn. viii. v. 194. 198. 267.
1 Such as his bearing the heavens, Met. ix. v. 198. His con-
quering the Centaurs, j®n. viii. v. 294. His killing Busiris,
Met. ix. v. 183. Mart. ix. ep. 102. His taking several cities in
Europe and Asia, TEn. viii. v. 290.
u Met. ix. v. 168. This is whilst labouring under the tor-
ments of the poisoned shirt. Aster he had made his funeral pile,
and laid down on it, he is quite composed, ibid. v. 238. Silius
mentions a sine relievo os him on the funeral pile, iii. v. 43.
and Pliny speaks of a celebrated statue of Hercules in torments at
Rome, Piin. 1. 34. c. 8. There is now a very fine one in the
Barbarini palace, of a high Greek taste, the face of which ex-
prelses the agonies he suffered. Pliny mentions a famous picture
in his time os his assumption, in the portico of Odtavia. Ovid’s,
account tallies exactly with Pliny’s.
courage*