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should sacrifice, too, whenever successful in his sport, dedicate Chap, XXXII. 



Homeri Odyss. 

 L. VI. 102. 



The Odyssey affords the graphic outline from whence Apelles is supposed to have 

 worked ort" his linislied picture of the Goddess of the Chase as an active toxophilite : 



"Aprefits flffi KaT* oPpeos lox^O'ipO') 

 ^ Kara Trityerov ireptfiriKeTov, ^ 'EpvfiavOov, 

 TipirofXivt] Kairpoiai koI wfcefjjs ^\a<poiai' 

 rrj Se 6' oifxa 'Nvix(pai, Kovpai Aihs Alyidxoto, 

 'Aypov6fj.oi TTai^ovffi' K. r. A. 



The rival copy of Virgil (^Iineid. L. i. 502.) will occur to the reader's recollection; 

 and I need not again exhibit (see c. xxii.note 2.) the elaborate and highly-embel- 

 lished portrait of the Carthaginian poet, (Nemesian. Cyneg. vs. 86.) Effigies in 

 marble of the Goddess of Hunting are to be seen in almost every collection ; alone, 

 with her usual symbols of venation, or accompanied by dogs of chase, or deer — or 

 both, as in an alto-relievo at Wilton House. Temples and altars of Diana Agrotera 

 are mentioned by Pausanias in Atticis c. xix. and c. xli., in Eliacis i. c. xv., in 

 Achaicis c. xxvi. 



For the honour of Diana, in the character of Agrotera, the shows of wild beasts in 

 the Roman Circus and Amphitheatre were generally designed : so Claudian, 



Tu juga Taygeti, frondosaque ftlaenala, Clio, 

 I Triviae supplex ; non aspernata rogantem 

 Amphitheatrali faveat Latonia pompfe ! . . . &c. 



and for their support in splendid variety, the whole world was ransacked for its rarest 

 and most savage animals : 



quodcunque tremendum est 

 Dentibus, aut insigne jubis, aut nobile cornu, 

 Aut rigidum setis capitur decus omne timorque 

 Sylvarun), &c. 



No deity amongst the heathens was more terrible than the masculine daughter of 



Latona, {a^peviKij irepa toO jXiTpov, koX opeios, in Juno's taunting language,) and none Lucian. Deor. 



I ... e a f Dial. Juno et 



less patient of atiront — ^ 



•^ Latona. 



Claudian. 



De Consul. 



Mall. Theod. 



vs. 292. 



gods and men 

 Fear'd her stem frown, and she was queen o' th' woods. 



The reader will call to recollection the death of the unfortunate sen of Autonoe, rhv 

 'Attraiuvos &@\iov /xSpov, (Euripid. Bacchse,) and the desolation of the well-cultivated 

 vineyard of (Eneus (Homer. Iliad. L. ix.) at the hand of Dian, 



Milton's 

 Comus. vs. 44-5. 



