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Chap. nor the Nymphs, 19 nor Mercury,"'^ the conductor and president 

 XXXIV. 



Invadit jaculo, diuque librans 

 Jecit eminus, &c. 



as a necessary preliminary to the slaughter of a stag, bayed by the hounds. 



Xenoplion. 17. 'Att^AAcows. Apollo shared with Diana the institution of hunting: 'AWaAoi- 



De V enat. ^^^ ^^j '/^pTffj^i^os &ypai koI Kvvis. Whence, witli Ids twin-sister, he is seen on antique 

 c. I. 



relievos with dogs and other emblems of the chase. In his character of Venator, 



Chiaramonti of '^poUo is described by Maximus Tyrius as a youth armed wiili a bow, his naked side 



Visconti and appearing beneath a chlamys, and his feet raised in the act of runnhig : 

 Guattani. 

 1. XVIII. Quails ubi hibernam Lyciam Xanthiqiie fluenta 



Virgil. jEneid. Deserit, ac Delura maternam invisit Apollo, 



L. IV. 143. ^ ^ . . , . 



Instauralque choros, mixtique altaria circum 



Cretesque Dryopesque frenmnt pictique Agathyrsi ; 



Ipse jugis Cynthi graditur, mollique fluentem 



Fronde premit crinem fingens, atque implicat auro ; 



Tela sonant humeris. 



Statii Achil. 

 L.I. 167, 



Liician. Deor. 



Dial. Juno ef 



Latona. 



Tibull. L. III. 

 El. IV. 34. 



De Augment. 

 Scient. L. ii. 



Virg. Eclog. 

 L. 11.33. 



The reader is of course familiar with the Apollo of the Belvedere — the Venator of 

 Statuaries — " Venator Apollo :" but perhaps not so well acquainted with the Wilton 

 effigy of him, exhibiting in a small compass all the symbols which characterise his 

 presidency over poetry, music, divination, or more probably medicine, and the chase 

 — (irpoatrotiiTai jjXv itavra elSevai, Kol To^eveiv, koI KiOapi^etv, koI larphs ilvai, Kol 

 fiavTfiiaQai) — in three of which attributes he is cited liy our author in the present 

 Chapter. The attitude of the god is easy and graceful ; he appears to lean against 

 one of the horns of his lyre, placed on a tripod, around which a serpent twines. 

 Over his right shoulder is seen his quiver, and his head is decorated vpith a laurel 

 crown — "casta redimitus tempora lauro:" the chlamys of the Venator is throvi'n 

 off, exposing the belt beneath, and the former with its gem is placed on some fit 

 receptacle beside tlie right leg. 



18. Tlav6s. " Officium Panis nulla alia re," says Lord Bacon, " tam ad vivum 

 proponi atque explicari potuerit, quain quod Deus Venatorum est," &c. He was the 

 god of the shepherds as well as hunters, the leader of the Nymphs as Apollo was of 

 the Muses, the patron of rural life, and president of the mountains. Happy the man, 

 exclaims the poet of the Georgics in his eulogy of country life, who numbers the 

 rustic deities, and Pan amongst the rest, in the catalogue of his acquaintance : 



Virg. Georg. 

 L. II. 494. 



deos qui novit agrestes, 

 Panaque, Sylvanumque senem, Nymphasque sorores! 



The most gra[)hic description of the goatish god I have any where seen is in the 

 13th book of Silius Italicus: 



