Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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The cothurnus was worn not only by tragic actors, butalfo off the flage : Virgil, Aen.i. 341. attributes the cothurnus to hunters. Baldui-?ms, de Calc. c. xv. will have it, that it was the very fame with the hunting boot,and that it came up high like our half-boots. The fhoes which are here figuredmay be referred to all thefe forts; and to others alfo among the many which arereckoned up by Pollux, vii. c. xxii. (24) Pollux, vii. cap. xxi. fays, that the ancients called the lajls vjzfamohs, andthat they retained the name in his time. Galen alfo, lib. ix. ©spam: calls them bythe fame name ; whence the interpreter of Horace, ii. fat. iii. 106. calls them calo-podia. Horace himfelf, however, in this paffage calls them formas, and fo doesUlpian, I. v. § ii. ad Leg. Aquil. (25) The atramentum futorium mentioned by Pliny, is that which was ufed forftaining the fhoes black: and thus of other colours, with which they were accuflom-ed to die them. See Chryfojlomi Homil. xxvii. PLATE PL XXXVI.
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( Si ) PLATE XXXVI. w T does not feem an eafy matter to determine what trade the (i^ Catalogue, n. 470. 4. and 2. (2) The firft of thefe was found the 13th of Auguft, and the other the 24th,in the year 1748, in digging at Refina. (3)) In Monifancon, torn. iii. p. 358. there are two looms copied from two minia-tures ; one in the celebrated Vatican Mamifcript of Virgil, and the other in a com-mentary upon Job, which is thought to be of the tenth century ; but they are bothvery different from this. (4) This conjeclure feems to receive fome fupport from the obfervation, thatthe pod upon which the third Genius has his hand does not reft upon the feet ofthe oblong board, as the others do, but comes quite down to the ground, arid thefiool, which is under the loom, is joined to it at one end; whence the Genius, bydrawing this long poft towards him, feems to communicate alfo a motion to theftool. Upon fuppofition therefore that thefe Genii are weavers, we may fay, eitherthat the manner of maki

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