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refembling veftals in their habit, excepting that all 
their heads were uncovered, and thole of two of 
them were adorned with vhta, or filets. Laffcly, a 
young man of a frnall fize, cloathed, with his arms 
fomewhat extended. 
There remains but one more figure to be taken 
notice of in this collection, viz. that of Serapis, 
with Cerberus at his right hand. Ancient writers (21) 
enable us to account for this appearance, by inform- 
ing us, that Serapis (befides his other characters of 
/Efculapius, Sol, Ofiris, and Jupiter) was accounted 
the fame as Dis Pater, or Pluto. Upon this hypo- 
thefis none can doubt of the propriety of Cerberus’s 
attending upon this deity in the figure before us, as 
well as in three others given us by Montfaucon (22). 
If we defire to enter into the myftical reafon of 
this reprefentation, we may learn it from Porphyry, 
viz. that Serapis (23), being the fame as Pluto, had 
dominion over the evil daemons ; and that thole be- 
ings were figured by a dog with three heads j mean- 
ing the daemon fubfifting in the three elements of 
water, earth, and air. 
Give me leave to add further, that I find, by my 
journal, that upon viewing this figure, I took notice 
of a diffimilitude in the heads of it : but as it did 
(21) Down ipfum (Serapidcm) multi /Efculapium quidam 
OJirim — plerique Jevem — plurimi Ditem patrem infignibus , qua: 
in ipfo manifejla , aut per ambages , conjettant. Tac. Hif. L. iv. 
E U Z iu'f, i/s Af JVir, hs "Ha/oj iri 2 dpa.Tr/s, Oraculum Apollinis 
apud M. A. Cauf. Mufeum Rom. vol. ii. §. 6. tab. 13- 
(22) Antiq. T. ii. P. 2. pi. 121, 122. 
(23) Porphyr. apud Eufeb. Prasp. Evang. L. iv. c. 23. Ta> S'i 
’joi'ttp is <Pd/y.wa,s a/, uk ii vtto 2dpa.Tr/v v7ro/\ivoy.sv, lie. 
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