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Since so many of these faults "and meannesses
are recorded of Hercules by the antients, it
seems a wonder how they came to give him the
foremost place among the very few heroes, who
r by their virtues were received in the highest hea-
vens ‘s'
BACCHUS.
Bacchus is described by the antient writers
and poets as a very great warrior. They say, he
traversed a great part of the world, and made con-
siderable conquests in India. From these great
atchieyements it is that he got a place in the
highest heavens a. He is said to be the inventor
of triumphs. He is very often seeri in old re-
lievos in a triumphal car, attended by a fantastic
set of women, fauns, and satyrs, and generally
Great in all his expeditions. It was not a foot high, so portable
enough. This history of it is given by Statius at large, Stat. iv.
Sylv. iii. v. 38, 39. 74. 88. Hercules is represented much in
the same manner on an ancient gem by Admon, at the Verospi
at Rome, which our author thinks was copied from this very
figure. See Polym. p. 116. n. 71.
2 Lucian introduces -ZEsculaplus dlsputing the right of prece-
dence with Hercules, on account of these faults.
a Hor. i. od. 12. v. 21. /En. vi. v. 805. Met. iv. v. 2i.
Fast. iii. v. 729. Hence too he was Ailed Liber Pater, or Bacchus
the great Prince ; a sense in which Pater is used. Curtius says
the greatest compliment his ssatterers could pay Alexander the
Great was, to say he exceeded Bacchus and Hercules, 1. viii. c. 18.
■ Hor. iii. od. 3. v. 16. Bacchus’s expedition into India was be-
fore the Theban war. See Stat. Theb. vii. v. $67.
with
Since so many of these faults "and meannesses
are recorded of Hercules by the antients, it
seems a wonder how they came to give him the
foremost place among the very few heroes, who
r by their virtues were received in the highest hea-
vens ‘s'
BACCHUS.
Bacchus is described by the antient writers
and poets as a very great warrior. They say, he
traversed a great part of the world, and made con-
siderable conquests in India. From these great
atchieyements it is that he got a place in the
highest heavens a. He is said to be the inventor
of triumphs. He is very often seeri in old re-
lievos in a triumphal car, attended by a fantastic
set of women, fauns, and satyrs, and generally
Great in all his expeditions. It was not a foot high, so portable
enough. This history of it is given by Statius at large, Stat. iv.
Sylv. iii. v. 38, 39. 74. 88. Hercules is represented much in
the same manner on an ancient gem by Admon, at the Verospi
at Rome, which our author thinks was copied from this very
figure. See Polym. p. 116. n. 71.
2 Lucian introduces -ZEsculaplus dlsputing the right of prece-
dence with Hercules, on account of these faults.
a Hor. i. od. 12. v. 21. /En. vi. v. 805. Met. iv. v. 2i.
Fast. iii. v. 729. Hence too he was Ailed Liber Pater, or Bacchus
the great Prince ; a sense in which Pater is used. Curtius says
the greatest compliment his ssatterers could pay Alexander the
Great was, to say he exceeded Bacchus and Hercules, 1. viii. c. 18.
■ Hor. iii. od. 3. v. 16. Bacchus’s expedition into India was be-
fore the Theban war. See Stat. Theb. vii. v. $67.
with