ON ton USING, 165 



and Mercury;" Lovers, to Venus'- Cupid,** Suada'^ and the Chap. 

 •' * XXXIV. 



7. Oi aftcpl iraiSeva-iv. InstructDrs — those engaged in education — tlie fiuvaoirdAoov 

 epyaiv fVio-fcoiroj of tlie Ciliciiin poet. 



S. Moi'xrais. I'lie Muses were tbouglit to preside over tlie ciiirerent departments 

 of science, poetry, vocal and instrumental music, and the fine arts generally. 



fK yap Movcrdccv Kal ficr]06\ov 'AttSWcdvos Hesiod. D. G. 



avSpis aoiSoi eadic iirl x^'ii'a Koi KidapicTTai. "■!• 



y. 'Air6\\aivi Movffr^yeTTi. When the gods attended the nuptials of I'eleus and 

 Thetis on Mount Pelion, Apollo led " tiie tuneful choir" in the character of Musa- 

 getes : 



eK Se fie\t(T(Tr]€VTOs air€(T(TVfi.4vtiov 'E\iku>vos Coluthi Rapt. 



Mova-duf Kiyxxpwvov iiyaiv xepi"' ■^ASei' 'ktrSWwv. Helen, vs. 'Z'A. 



Kepresentations of Apollo in the character of Musagetes or Lyristes, from the 

 Justinian gallery, are given by Pere Montfaucon in the first volume of his Antiquities; 

 by Spence, in his Polymetis, Pi. xiii. f. i. xi. ; and by Visconti, in the Clementine 

 Museum, Vol. i. 



Mentis ApoIlineiE vis has movet undique Musas. Ausonii Rlusa- 



In medio residens amplectitur omnia Phcebus. t . ,, 



•^ Idyll. XX. 



'AirdAA.coi' /uoi/diKoTy ayaffbs, says the Ephesian, ^07011' yap evperris d dths Kal fxovariKTis Artemidori 



TracTTjs. In which character the Roman poets of the Augustan age have decked him ^ "^^"^""^ ' 



t' o o L. ii.c. 35. 



out to the life. See Ovid's 



Ille caput flavum lauro Parnasside vinctus — Metam. L. xi. 



Verrit humum Tyrio saturata murice palla, &c. 165. 



10. Mvrifj.o(7WTj. This goddess is celebrated by Hesiod, in his Theogony, as the 

 mother of the Muses : 



eKris at Movffai XP^'^^I^'"'^'^^^ i^eyeuoyTo D, (J, vs. "Jl5. 



evvea, T'ptnv aSov 6a\iaL, Kal Tepxpis aoiSfis. 



So Akenside, in The Pleasures of Imagination : 



Ye heauteons offspring of Olympian Jove Book 



And Memory divine, Pierian maids. 



That this mythology is judicious, has been remarked by Plutarch in his rules for the 

 education of children ; since nothing so much cherishes learning as memory. There 

 is a statue of iMneniosyne in tlie Clementine Rluseum of Visconti, Vol. i. 



11. 'EpiJ.fi. Mercury is here introduced in one of his most creditable capacities, as 

 the author of letters, and the god of orators and eloquence : 



