32 CYPRUS. 
CHAP, if kneeling; while the other is erect, and laying 
*■ I ..y . ' hold of the ground, as horses do when endea- 
vouring to spring up. One of the two infants 
she is holding in her arms, and suckling, like 
a human creature, giving it her teat, which 
resembles that of a woman ; but the other she 
suckles at her mares teat, after the manner of 
difoal. In the upper part of the picture, a male 
Hippocentaur, intended to represent the husband 
of her who is nursing the children, is leaning 
over an eminence as it were, and laughing; 
not being wholly in sight, but only half way 
down, and holding a lion's whelp in his right 
hand, to frighten the children. The admirable 
skill of Zeuxis consists in displaying all the 
variety of the art in his treatment of one and the 
same subject: here w^e have a horse, proud, 
spirited, a shaggy mane over his chest and 
shoulders, a wild and fierce eye ; and a female, 
like the Thessalian mares, never to be mounted 
nor tamed; the upper half a woman, but all 
below the back like a satyr ; and the different 
bodies fitted, and as it were blended together.' *" 
Substances The signet-Stone's, of Cyprus, althouo^h cut in a 
used for the . * JJ ' Q 
siunets of vaHcty of substances, were more frequently of 
}/prus. ^^^ carnelian than of any other mineral. Some 
of the most diminutive size were finely executed 
in red garnet, the carbuncle of the Antients. 
