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Bacchus had the name of Baflareus. The beautiful 

 head, which Winkelman, milled by a parage in Eu- 

 ripides, gives to a Leucothea, would by other judges 

 be rather regarded as the head of a bacchant. 



What has been fo often remarked holds good when 

 applied to thefe objects, that the reftoration of modern 

 artifts here likewife, by the added extremities and at- 

 tributes, have frequently converted a nymph, a dan- 

 cer, or fome other figure, into a bacchant. , 



We pafs the fame judgement on the articles Fortu- 

 na, Abundantia, Pomona, as it is impoffible to dif- 

 tinp-uifh them from a Ceres. As well on coins as in 

 ftatues and fmall bronzes, it is often plainly difcei nible, 

 that the head is made to reprefent the portrait of fome 

 particular perfon, and it may generally be deciphered 

 by the known characters in a cabinet of medals. 



The Mufes appear all together as ftatues but Once iri 

 the remains of antiquity. They ufually are only dif- 

 tinguifhed by the attributes ; and who can be ignorant 

 how uncertain this character is ? They are always dif- 

 cernible by the long drapery, by the fitting pofture of 

 feveral of them, a»d the enraptured, thoughtful coun^ 

 tenance. Eight of them Were in the collection of 

 queen Chriftina. The ninth and the Apollo were 

 adapted to them by a fcholar of Bernini. Prom the 

 pofTelflon of that fovereign they pafTed into the Mu- 

 feum Odefchalcum, and from thence to Ildefonfo in 

 Spain. In the tenth book of Marie i we fee a good 

 drawing of them. Apollo is fitting, and in the atti- 

 tude of a maniac* . Clio has the tuba and a roll in hef 

 hand. Euterpe, with the flute, has a cupid Handing by 

 her. Melpomene, with a roll and the tragic mafk, and 

 vol. i* h near 



