STUDY XI. 309 



" ÙionyJîuSi of Athens, two talents, for a fimple 

 " copy of this picture." 



This anecdote muft have been fingularly pleal- 

 ing to Pliny, for he has repeated it in another 

 place * : " Thofe of Peloponefus," fays he, "were 

 " the firfl who regulated the colours and the 

 " fmells of the flowers of which chaplets were 

 " compofed. It was, however, originally the in- 

 et vention of Pait/ïas, a Painter, and of a nofegay* 

 " girl, named G/ycera, with whom he was vio- 

 " lently in love ; whence he was engaged to imi- 

 " tate to the life the chaplets and nofegays which 

 " fhe compofed. But the gill varied in fo many 

 " ways the arrangement of the flowers of her chap- 

 " lets, in order toteizeand employ her lover, that 

 " it afforded very high amufement to behold the 

 " fk.il! of the Painter Paufias, and the natural pro- 

 " duel; ion of Glycera, ftriving for the fuperiority." 



Ancient Nature is flill better acquainted with 

 the fubjeâ:, than is the young Glycera. As it is 

 impoffible to follow her in her infinité variety, we 

 fhall make, at leaft, one obfervation refpecting her 

 regularity. It is this, that there is not any one 

 odoriferous flower, but what grows at the foot of 

 Man, or at leafb within reach of his hand. All 



* Idem, book xxi. cliap. 2, 



x 3 thofe 



