among the Jncients. ^^f 



Pliny* gives an account of the two warriors 

 painted by Parrhafius, where the perfpiration 

 of the one and the anhelation of the other were 

 fo vifible and natural : when the naked hero of 

 Apellesf is faid to challenge nature herfelf ; and. 

 when Propertius can find no greater compliment 

 to pay to his miftrefs' complexion, than to com- 

 pare it with the tints of that artift:J we can hard- 

 ly refufe them a competence of judgment in a 

 point, where examples of ultimate perfeftibn 

 were frequently prefenting themfelves. This 

 at leaft muft be allowed fo far as the carnation 

 tint was concerned. || 



There is alfo good reafon to fuppofe, from 

 the palTages adduced in the beginning of this 

 effay, which give an account of the painting 

 of flowers, peacocks, &c. among the ancients. 



* Sunt et dua piSfura ejus nohilij/imig, hopUttes in certamine 

 it a decurrens ut fudare 'videatur ; alter arma deponens ut anhelare 

 /entiatur, XXXV. 35. 



f Pinxit et heroa nudum, eaque piBura naturam ipfam 

 frouocavit . Ibid. 



X ^alis Apelkii ejl color in tabulis. 



II This would be true even though the ancients and the 

 moderns had different notions of the carnation tint, owing 

 to the difference in the ftandard from difference of climate : 

 which however would be ytry flight. They appear to have 

 made accurate diftindions on this point: color in niveo 

 forpore purj)ureus : purpureui ore rubor, is c. 



that 



