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for the following translation.* a That same Zeuxis, the best 
painter that ever lived , did not paint vulgar and common sub¬ 
jects, or certainly but a very few ; but ?vas always endeavour¬ 
ing 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 two infant 
Hippocerdanrs . A copy of this picture, very accurately taken , 
existed at Athens: for the original, Sylla, the Roman general, 
sent away, with the rest of the plunder, to Italy ; and it is said 
that the ship, havingfoundered 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 Callceses (or Callaces.) 46 The'female cen¬ 
taur herself is painted as reclining.-upon a rich verdure, with 
the whole of her horse's body on the ground, and her feet ex¬ 
tended 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 if 
kneeling, while the other is erect, and laying hold of the ground^ 
us horses do when endeavouring to- spring up i 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 ; 
hut the other she suckles at her mare's teat, after the manner of 
a foal. In the upper part of the picture, a male Hippocentaur , 
intended to represent the husband of her who is nursing the; 
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* The merit of this translation is entirely due to the Rev. Charles James Blon>’ 
Seld, M. A. of Trinity College; the learned editor of the Prometheus ofiEschylua* 
printed at the university press in 1810; -whose illustrious acquirements peculiarly 
qualify him to supply a version suited to the style of interpretation adopted by pr<b 
lesser Person, 
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