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182 HANDBOOK OF AHCIIJEOLOGY.
collect and verify the pictures of his fancy; his features arc full of
sweetness, hut the joyousness of his soul is not manifested wholly in
his countenance." Yet even these forms and features admit of a
BACCHUS AND AMPELUS.
grand and powerfully impressive development, in which Dionysus is
revealed as son of the lightning, as the god of irresistible power.
The mitra around the forehead, and the vino or ivy crown throwing
its shade from ahovc, produce a very advantageous effect in the
Bacchian expression; the hair flows down softly and in long ringlets
on the shoulders; the hody, with the exception of a roe-skin, i/c/fyis,
collect and verify the pictures of his fancy; his features arc full of
sweetness, hut the joyousness of his soul is not manifested wholly in
his countenance." Yet even these forms and features admit of a
BACCHUS AND AMPELUS.
grand and powerfully impressive development, in which Dionysus is
revealed as son of the lightning, as the god of irresistible power.
The mitra around the forehead, and the vino or ivy crown throwing
its shade from ahovc, produce a very advantageous effect in the
Bacchian expression; the hair flows down softly and in long ringlets
on the shoulders; the hody, with the exception of a roe-skin, i/c/fyis,