ON COtUSlNC. 169 



of tlic hi«li\vavs, nor any other mountain o-ods-^ that there Chai'. 



pendenti siniilis Pan semper, et uno 

 \'ix ulla iuscribens terras vestigia cornu, &c. &c. 



But as tliis lias been cited at length by Spence in his Polyinetis, a book of easy 

 reference, I decline introducing it here — wishing, as much as possible, to present my 

 readers with passages omitted by this celebrated scholar. Let Lucian's more brief 



delineation be substituted : 6 /liv Kepara Ix'^^i ""' '^^"^ *l Tjtxia-fias is rh ko-to) al'yX Deorum 



» ^ \ t o o^ a ' '■>' ' 5 J. ' ' /. Concilium. 



eoiKws, KOi yfyeiov paav Kaoetij.fi/os, oXiyov rpayov oiatpepwv ecrrif. 



19. 'NvfjLipiv. Beger's list of these ladies does not much exceed one hundred in 

 number, although it is said that Diana had above a thousand in her retinue. We 

 may suppose those principally interested in Cynegetical pursuits to have been the 

 Oreades, nymphs of the mountains; the vvfi<pai'OpeaTid5es of Homer (Iliad, vi. 421.) 

 the 'Opel-nKayKToi of Aristophanes (Thesmophoriazusae) ; the Napace, nymphs of 

 the meadows, (of whom Virgil, " faciles venerare Napa;as,") and the Dryades and 

 Hamadryades, nymphs of the woods, the (ptXopvi6a>v Apvddwv X'^P^^ ''^ Oppian 

 (Cyneg. i. vs. 78.) See Claudian. de laudib. Stilic. L. in. for a description of the 

 " acies formosa Diana," and the Epicedium of Hercules Stroza; in which latter the 

 names of many of these inferior Sylvan deities, " turbae nemoralis," are registered in 

 chaste hexameters, addressed to the Ducliess of Ferrara. Sometimes the Naiads also 

 accompanied the land-nymphs in their hunting pranks : 



pulchro venantes agmine Nyrophas, Valer. Flacci 



Undarum, nemorunique decus, &c. Argon. J,, in. 



* ' 530. 



Elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves. Tempest, 



Act V. sc. I. 



20. 'Epfiov ^Evo^Lov Kol 'Hytfioviov. " Deum maxime Mercurium colunt," says J)q bello 

 Cassar of the Gauls or Celts : " hujus sunt plurima simulacra ; hunc omnium inven- Gallico L. v. 

 torero artium ferunt; hunc viarum atqne ilinerum ducem ; hunc ad quajstus pecuniee 

 mercaturasque habere vim maxiniam arbitrantur." Being the god of every species of 



gain, and the dog being sacred to him, we have additional reasons for the injunction 



of the text. He was called 'Eff^Sios or "vialis" according to Pitiscus, " qui viarum Lexicon Anliq. 



pra;ses, in biviis, et compitis ponebatur ad semitas monstrandas :" in which capacity V. ii. 180. 



his statues are, what are commonly called Terminal, — that seemingly imperfect, ugly, 



awkward-looking shape, to which a worthless Roman nobleman, Rubellius Plancus, is 



assimilated by the satirist of Aqainum ; 



at tu Juvenal. 



Nil nisi Cecropides, truncoque simillimus Hermae. °^'- ^'"'" ^"' 



NuUo quippe alio vincis discriinine, quam quod 

 Uli niarnioreum caput est, tua vivit imago. 

 V 



