Spence, Joseph; Tindal, Nicholas [Hrsg.]; Dodsley, James [Bearb.]: A Guide To Classical Learning: Or, Polymetis Abridged: Containing, I. By Way of Introduction, the Characters of the Latin Poets and their Work ... II. An Inquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Antient Artists ... Being a Work absolutely necessary, not only for the Right Understanding of the Classics, but also for forming in Young Minds a True Taste for the Beauties of Poetry, Sculpture, and Painting (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1786)

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The Nereids were all called silters, as be-
ing of the family of Nereus and Doris. Their
saces, though alike, were different enough to be
distinguissied from one another. The names of
some of them are known; as Doto and Galatea;
but the attributes given them by the poets are so
uniform, that we can only say of a relievo, or
pidure, that it is a Nereid-piece in general.
The descriptions too of them, in the poets,
are of a general nature. They represent them
as parting the water with their arms, and ssoating
on the surface of it with their long hair: fome-
times rising above the water to admire a Arrange
sight: sometimes, as busied in assiflring ssiips, and
conducing them into their ports; and sometimes
nuptiis Pel. Flac. Arg. i. v. 139. She had a veil over her face
as the brides had of old. Luc. ii. v. 361. Fast. iii. v. 690. Juv.
Sat. x. v. 355. The representation of this marriage in Mont-
faucon’s collection is a modern invention, vol. i. pl. 107. On
a gem at Florence, flie has a helmet in one hand, and a
coat of mail in the other, and is called the mother of Achilles,
to whom ihe seems to be carrying the arms flie had provided
him. She is in a long vest, and not naked, as the sea-nymphs
usually are 5 but the feet are not quite hid, the beauties of
which are perpetually mentioned in Homer by the epithet
and not forgot by Ovid, Ep, Her. 20. v. 60.
This was a part much more obierved of old than with us.
Their seet were not concealed as ous s are, Hor. iv. od. i. v. 27.
Ovid, Am. 1. iii, v. 7.

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