166 



AKRIAN 



Chap. Graces.i^ And, upon the same principle^ Sportsmen should 

 xxxiv. 



Francis's 



Horace. B. i. 



Od. X. 



The god of wit, from Atlas sprung. 

 Who hy persuasive power of tongue 

 And graceful exercise refined 

 The savage race of human kind ! 



Artemidori 

 Oneirocrit. 

 L. u. c. 37. 



Bucol. Eclog. 

 L. 11.57. 



'Ep/i7)s ayadbs ro'is iirl \6yovs dpfjiUfjievois, koI adAriTois, Kot iratSoTplfiais, k. t.A. 



12. Oi 5e aficpl TO ipaiTiKo. 'A(^po5iT7?. In the Rape of Helen, Venus is called 

 'Ap/jLOvlris ^aaiXeta, (v. 26.) 6a\dfxuv fiaaiAeia, (v. 137.) and ydixoov /SacriAeio, (v. 306.) 

 queen of marriage. And to the same purport is the description of Nemesian : 



cui cura jugales 

 Concubitus hominum totis connectere seclis. 



Artemidori 

 Oneirocrit. 

 L. II. C.37. 



fidXiffra 8e ayaOrj irepl ydfiovs Kol Koivuvias, Kal irepl tIkvoiv yovds, says the dream- 

 interpreter, of the goddess of love, crvvSecriiciiv yap Koi iinyovoou eaTlv alria. The reader 

 will remember her angry speech (tangit at ira Deos) in the prologue of the Hip- 

 polytus, 



rovs fiev aifiovras Tafia irpeafieviii Kparr), 

 acpdWw S' '6(Toi ^povovffiv eis Tifias fieya, k. t. \. 



Argonaut. 

 L.I. 615. 



^Eneid. L. r. 

 668. 



U. G. vs. 201. 



Od. III. vs. 17. 



and her vengeful and infuriate character, as drawn by Apollonius Rhodius in re- 

 ference to the Lemnians : 



ovvfKa fj.iv yepdwv iinSriphv &Ti(T(rav. 



and amplified by Valerius Flaccus, L. xi. vs. 29. 



13. "EpwTt. Venus confesses that she has little power without the aid of her 

 favourite son Cupid ; 



Nate, meae vires, mea magna potentia, &c. 

 Ad te confugio, et supplex tua numina posco. 



She is accompanied by him and"I;U€pos (whom the Grecian mythologists seem to have 

 distinguished from''Epa)s) in the Theogony of Hesiod. 



T^ S"'Epos ai/iapTTjtre, KaVlfiepos eWero Ka\6s, 



The Odes of Anacreon aflford many graphic sketches of the mischievous little god : 



ipepovra t6^ov, 

 Trrepirydi re Kal <pap4Tprii'. 



14. Hfi0o7. Suada or Suadela — the goddess of persuasion — nuplianmi conciliutrix. 



