And they swimming breathe with equal breath.
Around circle the more amorous throng.
One spits out the salt wave, the others circle round;
One seems to play at love and dallies.
The fair nymph with her trusted sisters
Laughs charmingly at their hoarse singing.”
Titian, too, may have had in mind the Giostra, I. cxi, when he composed his Bacchus and Ariadne. (Fig. [260])
“Comes upon a car covered with ivy and rushes
Drawn by two tigers—Bacchus
And with him it seems that fauns and mænads