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boy about five yea i 
1s crowned nite wreath o 
ramed author, its back was covered with 
ie black feathers, its breast with red, 
ts wings were white. According to 
Oyas,: the hind part of its neck was 
er 
covered with rs Of a most brilliant 
and glossy bi 
; it had the beak, of an 
eagle, and very fiery eyes. Ancient au- 
thers make dé,inhabit only. mountains 
and desolate places; and some say it is 
only a native of Ethiopia, and unless it . 
was taken very young it was impossib 
to be tamed. It was. supposed to be 
Farge, that drinking cups were made fr 
its ta lons, which were at least as large 
a bull’s.horn. The sister of Charles the 
Bifth possessed a very handsome cup of 
a material resembling agate, that was 
said to be made from the claw of a 
griffin. And even Gesner speaks of a 
similar cup that belonged to a goldsmith 
ef Zurich. That it was one of the sym- 
bols of Apollo, we have the authority of 
Buonarotti, who, in his work on  Me- 
daglioni Antichi,” says, that the Greeks, 
without understanding the reason, re- 
ee:ved it for the worship of that god 
From the Oriental nations. Philostratus 
also says, in his Life of ApoHonuus, that 
the Indians constantly represented A polio 
(or the sum) in a queencegerain by 
griffins. Ughall, in pursuance of my former 
plan, only mention a few of the principal 
articles, leaving the rest for verbal de- 
scription when you visit London. I 
shail therefore skip to No. 52, a fine 
statue of Libera (says the Synopsis) hold- 
ing a thyrsus over the right sho ider, a 
a bunch of grapes in her left fand; 
her feetis a panther. No. 53, is a sta vad 
of Ceres, of apparentlyeariy workman- 
ship, crowned in the mannerof Tris. — 
58. A sepulchral cippus, which appears 
to have been never used, 
an inscription. On the front, beneath a 
festoon, which is composed of fruits and 
foliage, suspended from the skulls of 
bulls, are two birds perched on the edge 
ofa vase, out of which they are drinking. 
There are several sepulchral urns, and 
Greek funeral monuments of invaluable 
worth, particularly one to Deucocles, ¢ 
taining a basso-relievo, and eight 
verses in Greek. A a sta 
infant Bacchus, (No. ° oe 
merits attention. H 
as 
body partly covered 
No. 64 recals to my mi 
atrocity in the Roman history, as makes 
ane shudder at the monsters the world 
has givea birth to. This is one of the im- 
errant proofs of the necessary aid which 
The Dilletanti T. ourists 
fachenigBriiaig succeeded him, 
as it is without ° 
‘offering of some Loman 
i all y valuable, from the circu of 
_its having been found in the baths o| 
d iss a scene of. 
ax Le me 
_ [Sept. 1, 
the arts, particularly sculpture, afford 
tg tistory.. This antique isthe front of ay 
‘ive altar, with an i scription for t 
see retarn of Septimius Severus aud” 
his family from some expedition, probably 
that which he made to Britain. Some 
parts of the inscription are eflaced ; these 
appear to have contained the name of 
his son Geta, which, by a severe edict of 
f his brother Car acaila, was ordered to 
e erased from every inscription through- 
out the empire. This monster (Cara- 
calla) alter attempting to murder hi 
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to have beena very accomplished iia 4 
young man; jealous, however, of his su- 
periority, he stabbed him in the arms of 
their mother Julia, at the age of 23, au 
pursued. his malice after death 1 
way this monument evinces, vie 
wantoning in craelty, and marrying ‘his 
mother-in- law, he met bis deserved fate 
from one_ of his guards, at Edessa, in 
217. No. 65, is a bust of this wretch; 
the head only is antique. —68, is a groupe 
of a greyhound dog and bitch, most 
chariningly and naturally executed, and 
in the finest state of preservation—one 
of them is biting the ear of the other in 
play.—You perhaps think me tedious; . 
nll T think my self omissive, in ame vne is 
so many artiele i a 
interesting in themse 
fore suffer my admu 
dinary assemblage 
ancient world, and 
me to be explicit, to 
Here are two fine busts of 
rapis, several of Roman emp 
pent of masks, and yore ie | 
ue is twined, ie its at restir 
summit, which terminates a little 
the ancle. erpent is the well- 
known symbol of Eseula a) 
we not suppose this voti 
Ot to be the: 
picure to the | 
‘or a fit of the 
a vase, which = 
handle b se the ne eck, and termi- Ey 
ar 
a point atthe bottom like an” 
This is more tha 
ol health for senel fi 
Titus, with about seve 
ty others of 
same ‘sort - ids of them 
contained the 
bodies before ie i niga No. 85, is 
a head of Sabina; and 88, isa singular 
groupe of an Egyptian tumbler, standing 
eet re on 
on his hi aig with i 
ee the 
