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Tu formosissimus alto 

 Conspiceris coelo ; tibi, cum siue comibus adsta* 

 Virgineum caput est.* 



On the other band, their awful and terrible 

 deities, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, and Mars, 

 are represented in the full strength of man* 

 hood, or of more advanced maturity. 



It may be said, perhaps, that in the finest 

 statue of Apollo which has been preserved, 

 dignity is intimatety connected with beau- 

 ty ; and that the mixture has produced ths 

 highest idea of male beauty, of which we 

 have any model. This is perfectly true, and 

 seems to contradict what I have before ob- 

 served : but, if instead of a few statues sav- 

 ed from the general wreck of ancient sculp- 



* There were mystic representations of many deities, to- 

 tally different from the characters of them in the poets, and 

 from the statues which accord with their descriptions. Not 

 only Bacchus, but even Venus was represented with a 

 beard. Her statue at Paphos, which is said to be the ori- 

 ginal Venus, was an androgynous figure, with a long beard-. 

 With such representations, however, I have no more 

 concern, than with the form of any Egyptian hierogly- 

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