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the wafers, in his chariot, drawn by sea-horfes,
with a Triton sbmetimes on each side, as guiding
those that dratv the chariotd.
Amphitrite, the wife of Neptune, is no
where expressly described, as a person, by the
poets; neither is there any undoubted figure os
her, though £he seems to be represented sometimes
with Neptune in his chariote.
The Venus marina, or Sea-Venus, called
by the Greeks, Venus Anaduomene, ought to
be placed in the highest ck-.ss os the deities of
,the sea, in respe£t to her more exalted character
when considered among the great celestial deities.
The most celebrated picture in all antiquity
was that of this Goddess, by Apellesf. Though
d The fine original desoription is- in Homer, from whence
Virgil and Statius have copied it. ZEn. i. v. 155, Stat. Achil.
i. v. 60. The make of the sea-horse, as described by Virgil, is
frequent on gems and relievos. Stat. Theb. ii. v. 47. Id. V. v.
708. Flac. Arg, i. 680.
e There is a passage in Ovid in which it is doubtful whether he
speaks personally or literally of her, Met. i. ver. 14. As to her
figure, see Mus. Flor. vol. ii. pl. xlviii. 4.
s He is said, in drawing it, to have used for his model Cam-
paspe, his favourite mistress, who was given him so generoussy by
Alexander the Great. Plin. 1. 85. c. 30. This picture came
afterwards to the Romans, and was probably, for seme time, in
the noble collodion in the palace of Augustus (Ovid. Trist. ii.
v. 521.) though placed afterwards by him, in the temple dedicat-
. ed to his predecesibr Julius Caesar* It was quite decayed in Pliny’s
time.
the
the wafers, in his chariot, drawn by sea-horfes,
with a Triton sbmetimes on each side, as guiding
those that dratv the chariotd.
Amphitrite, the wife of Neptune, is no
where expressly described, as a person, by the
poets; neither is there any undoubted figure os
her, though £he seems to be represented sometimes
with Neptune in his chariote.
The Venus marina, or Sea-Venus, called
by the Greeks, Venus Anaduomene, ought to
be placed in the highest ck-.ss os the deities of
,the sea, in respe£t to her more exalted character
when considered among the great celestial deities.
The most celebrated picture in all antiquity
was that of this Goddess, by Apellesf. Though
d The fine original desoription is- in Homer, from whence
Virgil and Statius have copied it. ZEn. i. v. 155, Stat. Achil.
i. v. 60. The make of the sea-horse, as described by Virgil, is
frequent on gems and relievos. Stat. Theb. ii. v. 47. Id. V. v.
708. Flac. Arg, i. 680.
e There is a passage in Ovid in which it is doubtful whether he
speaks personally or literally of her, Met. i. ver. 14. As to her
figure, see Mus. Flor. vol. ii. pl. xlviii. 4.
s He is said, in drawing it, to have used for his model Cam-
paspe, his favourite mistress, who was given him so generoussy by
Alexander the Great. Plin. 1. 85. c. 30. This picture came
afterwards to the Romans, and was probably, for seme time, in
the noble collodion in the palace of Augustus (Ovid. Trist. ii.
v. 521.) though placed afterwards by him, in the temple dedicat-
. ed to his predecesibr Julius Caesar* It was quite decayed in Pliny’s
time.
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