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separate into two parts if they persisted, owing CHAP. 
to a fissure in the stone, they had the good .. y * 
taste to abandon the undertaking. It repre- 
sents, in three departments, a festival of Silenus, 
mistaken by Tournefwt for Bacchus. The demigod 
is figured, in the upper part of it, as a corpulent 
drunkard, with ass's ears, accompanied by 
laughing satyrs and dancing-girls. A female 
figure is represented silting, with a fox sleeping 
in her lap. A warrior is also introduced, wear- 
ing a Phrygian bonnet. There are twenty-nine 
figures; and below is this inscription: 
A A A M A Z 
O A P YZ HZ 
N Y M <!> A I Z 
which may be thus rendered into English*; Explana- 
tion of the 
"ADAMAS ODRYSES TO THE NYMPHS." inscrip- 
tion. 
(f) Tournefnrt, in his remarks upon this inscription, maintains, from 
Diod. Sic. Biblinth. Hist. tib. iii. and from the Adversaria of Uarthius, 
that the word Nu^ipa/f applied to ihe girls of the island, rather than to 
those 'femali ,/ii'inities who were called Nympha : to which opinion the 
author, perhaps, too hastily assented, when, in the first edition, he 
rendered the word Ni/^a/f, " To the lasses," or betrothed maidens. 
The words of Barthius are : " Graecis intermedia inter virginem et 
mulierem tufifn, quod eleganter discas ex Theocrito sive Moschum mavis 
fine EUROPX: 
H Ss vr(tf xaiipi, Zytes y'tnr wr/x tuuQt;, 
Ktti Kga/Si T*> <T/*TI, *) aurlxa ylttrt ftjrtip." 
Barthii Adversar. lib. xxvi. cap. 4. Franco/. 1624. 
But VulcJtener has the following observation upon the conclusion of the 
EUROPA : 
