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Whatever may be thought of the merit of this 

 invention in poetry, it has certainly furnished a very 

 bad monster in painting ; for the artists who have 

 represented a Cyclops, have placed the eye, not 

 merely in the middle of the face (which possibly 

 H*fTW7rov, as well as from, might, with a little 

 licence, be supposed to signify,) but in the 

 exact middle of the forehead, considered sepa- 

 rately. Callimachus, and, after him, Virgil, have 

 given a much more picturesque image — 



Toicrt $'vir o(pfW 

 <$>«««. ix.tito'yXvivct, erctxu wu. rtrpuGottq) 

 AskfOf viroyKxvaovrci. 



Callimach. Hymnus in Dianam. 



Ingens, quod solum torvasw& fronte latebat — 



iEneid, b. 3. 



the exact reverse of an eye in the most open and 

 conspicuous part of the face. Theocritus dwells 

 particularly on the thickness, and the continued 

 length of the eyebrow — 



■ Aetna, pit ofpv; ssn tffxvn [Aerava, 



E| uto! rtraxcci «tot» G'umgov a?, \ua, petxpoi. 



From these descriptions, added to the general cha- 

 racter in Homer, a much less unnatural, and, at 

 the same time a more terrific monster might have 

 been produced, even supposing the popular fable 

 to be iu a great measure adopted. The eye might 

 for instance be made central, and round ; but be 

 placed according to the authorities I have just 

 quoted, under the forehead. Such an eye, half 

 concealed by the overhanging eyebrow, and dread, 

 fully gleaming from beneathit } v<o\i\dgivG aporten- 



