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paint vulgar and common subjects, or certainly 
but a very few; but was always endeavouring 
to strike out something new; and employed all 
the accuracy of his art about some strange 
and heterogeneous conceit. He painted, for 
instance, a female Hippocentaur, nursing tv/o 
infant Hippocentaurs. A copy of this picture, 
very accurately taken, existed at Athens: for the 
original, Sijl/a, the Roman general, sent away, 
with the rest of the plunder, to liali/; and it 
is said, that the ship having foundered off the 
Malean Promontory, the whole cargo, and with 
it this picture, was lost. The copy of the original 
painting is thus with some difficulty described by 
Callimachus and Calceses(px Calaces). 'The female 
Centaur herself is painted as reclining upon a rich 
verdure, with the whole of her horse's body on 
the ground, and her feet extended backwards; 
but as much of her as resembles a woman, is 
gently raised, and rests on her elbow. Her 
fore-feet are not stretched out like her hind 
ones, as if she were lying on her side ; but one 
of them is bent, and the hoof drawn under, as 
Hemster/iusius's Edition of Lucian, carries with it internal evidence 
that he had visited the source whence the Note had been originally 
derived : Professor Gaisford's eopy, being a faithful transcript, without 
those emendations, also proves how well acquainted he was with the 
author from whom the extract was taken ; because he added to it, 
" f'erba aunt Luciani in Zeuxide, c. 3. torn. I. />. 340. " 
