amon^ the Ancients. 5^1 



The fame fentiments are exprefled by ^lian, 

 Statuas et imagines (fays he) quas' nobis ars fiSlorum 

 exbibet mn ojcitanter out obiter Jpe5iare/oleo. Nam 

 in his etiam ars manunria judicium aliquod Japien- 

 tiamque adhibet. At que idficfe habere cum ex mult is 

 aliis conjici pteji turn ex eo fotijfimum quod nemo pic- 

 torum aut flajlarum aujus eft unquam mufis Jiliabus 

 Jovis adulterinas atque alias /pedes efingere : neque 

 quifquam opificum tam eft a ratione alienus, qui eas 

 armatas exhibuerit. 



Still more direftly to the purpofe is the follow- 

 ing very fenfible palTage from Vitruvius, whofe 

 good tafte and judgment feems to have been 

 greatly offended at the violations of probability 

 which were beginning to gain ground in his 

 time. Neque piofura (fays he*) probari debent 

 qua non funt ftmiles v.eritati ; nee ft fa£iaftint elegan- 

 tes ab arte idea de his ftatim debet repent} judicari, 

 nift argumentationis habuerint rationes fine offenfionibus 

 explicatas. Etenim enim Trallibus cum Apaturius 

 Allabandeus eleganti manu finxijfet Jcenam in minujculo 

 theatre quod iH^.^maimn^m apud eos vocitatur, in edque 

 fecijjet pro Columnis figna Centaurojque Juftinentes 

 Epyftiliaj Tholorum rotunda teSia^ faftigiorum pro- 

 minent es "verjurasy coYonaJque capitibus leoninis ornatasi 

 qua omnia ftillicidiorum e tc5fis habent rationerh; 

 pratereafufra earn nihilominus epiftenium in quo 'Tholi 

 pronai Jemifaftigia omnijque teEii variis pi^iuris fuerat 



* Lib. VII. cap. 5. 



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