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same appellation occurs also in Athenians*. 
With regard to the image of Silenus, in the bas- 
relief, it has never been observed that Pliny 
mentions it, as a natural curiosity, and one of 
the marvels of Antient Greece. The figure of 
Silenus was accidentally discovered, as a lusus 
Nature?, in splitting the rock; and, of course, 
all the other parts of this piece of sculpture had 
been adjusted by Odryses to assist the repre- 
sentation, when he dedicated his work to the 
Nymphs. Such a method of heightening and 
of improving any casual effect of this kind has 
been very common in all countries, especially 
where the populace are to be deluded by some 
supposed prodigy : and thus the cause is ex- 
plained why this singular piece of sculpture, so 
rudely executed, yet remains as a part of the 
natural rock ; whence it would be an act of 
worse than Gothic barbarity to remove it. " A 
wonderful circumstance," says Pliny \ " is re- 
lated of the Parian quarries. The mass of entire Evidence 
stone being separated by the wedges of the 
workmen, there appeared within it AN EFFIGY 
OF SILENUS." In the existence of this bas-relief 
(6) A;V f \v%>tvs. Atlien. Deipn. lib.'v. 
(7) " Sed in Pnrlcrum rairabile proditur, gleb^, lapidis unius cuncis 
dividentium solutA, IMAGINEM SILENI intus extitisse." Piin.Hist. *Vat. 
c.5. torn. III. p.46B. L. Bat. 1635. 
