among the Antients. 157 



than the largest cities in France at that time contained. The 

 booty, which according to the various conventions was to 

 be divided equally, was so great that it filled three churches; 

 and although a great part was embezzled, it was shared to the 

 value of 400,000 marks silver. After having plundered the 

 living, and profaned the altars, the ashes of the dead were 

 even molested. All the tombs of the emperors were opened, 

 in order to rob them of whatever was precious. At last, 

 when the avarice of the crusaders found no more encourage- 

 ment, their fury was directed against the statues, which they 

 demolished, either in order to send them to the mint, or to 

 sell them to the founders, who paid the value of the metal 

 only*. ** 



Among these works are enumerated the following: 



A colossal Juno, the head of which alone could scarcely 

 be moved by eight oxen. 



A Paris presenting the apple to Venus. 



A large square monument of bronze, surmounted by a 

 pyramid. In this were represented the labours of the field ; 

 lambs frisking to the sound of the shepherd's pipe, the 

 catching of birds, and fishing ; Cupids throwing apples, &c. 



An equestrian statue in heroic costume, which was in the 

 bullock market: to all appearance it was that of an em- 

 peror; but the inscription was lost: some said it was 

 Joshua stretching out his hand to the setting sun, and or- 

 dering it to stop : according to others, it was Bellerophon f. 



Among the statues which decorated the Hippodrome, 

 they melted down a colossal Hercules in a sitting posture, 

 and full of grief for having killed bis children J: so large was 

 this figure, that its thumb equalled in size the body of a man. 



* See NicETX Coniaim Narratio dc SlaUiis Constaminop. in Fabricius 

 Biilioth. Grac. lom. vi. p. 405. — Note iy the Author. 



Part of the above woi k has been translated by Harris, in his Philological 

 Enquiries, vol. ii. p. 301, chap. 5. This work was translated into French by 

 M. Boulard, who was pleased to give it the title of lliUoiie literaire da nwt/en 

 Aftc — Note Vy M. Millin. 



■j- On the subject of the losses to the arts sustained at Constantinople, we 

 may consult M. Heync's dissertation Dc Jntenlu Optrum cum antajua: turn, re- 

 ccnttoris /Irtisijua ConttaiUinopo'.ifuisie memorantur, ejus-^ue CaitsU ac Tempon- 

 Ivt. Mcmoire* de Gottingen, torn. xii. p. 273. — NUe iy M. Miltm. 



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