DELPHI. 251 
the finest specimens of the Grecian art'. VirgiU chap. 
who was not less an antiquary than a poet, bor- . _ _ j 
rowed much of his finest imagery from the gems 
and coins of Greece t and in the magnificent 
description given by Ovid of the apotheosis of 
Hercules'^, he seems to have had in contempla- 
tion this medal of CEt a. 
(1) The original is dow in the possession of R. P. Knight, Esq. 
See also an Engraving of this Medal in a work published at Vienna, 
in two Parts, by the Abbe Neumann; entitled " Populornm et 
Regum Numi Veteres inediti." Pars Prima, Tah.V. No.1. Vindo- 
bona, 1779. The Second Part appeared in 1783. Speaking of thii? 
silver medal of CEta, the author says, " H<ec atque alia diversa Musei 
Pelleriniani, utraque area, (Etceorum sola sunt monetce, qua ad nostra 
lempora in apricum protulit alas. lis tertiam nunc addo, spectato 
metallo unicam, artificio, cujus veneres nee verbis, nee scalpro digna 
exprimas, nilore atque elegantid insignem." Ibid. p. IGO. 
(2) " Utque novus serpens, positft cum pelle seuectft, 
Luxuriare solet, squamlque nitere recenti : 
Sic, iihi mortales Tirynthius exuit artus. 
Parte stii meliore \igct; raajorque videri 
Coepit, et augustal fieri gravitate verendus." 
Ovidii Metammph. lib. ix, 'IGS. 
