686" rniLosoPHicAL transactions. [anno 1755. 



TlavTx, xai airna'ai TroXXaiti ipsiJ'oju.Ei'ri. 



I will give the whole epigram, as a specimen of the style and manner of Phi- 

 lodemus ; but must beg, that in reading the third verse you would recollect what 

 Homer says of the girdle or cestus of Venus, that it contained all kind of de- 

 lights and blandishments, love, persuasion, and desire. 



4>i>.oJ'nft!s nrtyfo.jJ.jj.K. 

 MiXiC)) x«> litXavHd-a ^iXxiviov, aWa, (riXmuv 



OuX0T£f», K ajMm p^pura TjaiiKOTipTi, 

 Kai xto-Tu ^uvtvfo. jotaywrtpa, xai TrajEj^aira; 



Ylomra, xai aiTno-ai iroAAaxi tpuSofAfvr,. 

 ToiauTWk (rTipyoi|M.i 4>iAaii'io)', *X.P'^ "" '''P''' 

 AXXtii', ft) xfuirtn Kuirpi, riXttoriftw.* 

 Extract of the second Letter from Camillo Paderni, dated at Naples, July 1Q, 



1755. p. 307. 

 A cameo of great excellence was found the 9th of this month. This cameo 

 is in alto relievo. It is about an inch and a half long, and almost as much in 

 breadth. It represents a half length of Ceres. The head is in profile, and has 

 a noble and beautiful air. It is turned, together with the body, a little to the 

 left. The left arm is a little raised, and holds in the hand some ears of com. 

 The right arm is lower, and close to the body. The right hand takes hold of 

 part of a fine garment, or shift, with which the figure is in part covered. The 

 head is adorned with a diadem; and the hair, which is of excellent workmanship, 

 flows on her shoulders, tied with a single ribband, which rests on her neck. 

 The stone, of which the head is composed, is pellucid, and the rest of the figure 

 is cut out of a chalcedony by a Greek master; it was found at Stabiae, where 

 they continue to dig. In the same place were found also buried several vases of 

 metal and glass very well preserved. 



At Pompeii within these few days was found a most beautiful wine-strainer, 

 small, but finely pierced, in a better taste than those already found, which are 

 of brass. In this same place was dug up an ink-standish, with some of the ink, 

 which I likewise preserved. There has been met with also an iron ax. There 

 have been found, and they go on daily to find, many pictures. If the ancients 

 had not dug in this place, we should have discovered many more things; for we 

 find that they have taken away even some of the pictures. 



* Since the death of the learned Dr. Watson, which happened March 2, 1756, soon after his 

 translation of these two letters of Camillo Paderni, and his observations on the former, were read 

 at the Royal Society, another epigram of Philodemns has been taken notice of, published at Leipsic 

 in 1754, by the celebrated Mr. Reiske, which ajjpears likewise to have been alluded to by Horace in 

 the passage in part cited above from his second satire of the first book, ver. 120.— Orig. • ' 



