[318] Plutarch. de Garrulit. p. 502.
[319] Tristan Comment. Hist. des Emper. T. I. p. 632.
[320] Plutarch. Marcell. p. 277.
[321] Vulpii Latium, T. II. L. II. c. 20. p. 175.
[322] Banier Mythol. T. II. L. I. ch. 11. p. 181.
[323] Dioscorid. de Re Med. L. V. c. 179.
[324] Fred. Oeser, one of the most extensive geniuses which the present age can boast of, is a German, and now lives at Dresden; where, to the honour of his country, and the emolument of the art, he gets his livelihood by teaching young blockheads, of the Saxon-race, the elements of drawing; and by etching after the Flemish painters. N. of Transl.
[325] Hymn. in Apoll.
[326] Alexander, in his S. John, in St. Andrea della Valle at Rome; Niobe, in a picture belonging to the Tesoro di S. Gennaro, at Naples.
[327] So are the goddesses of the Theopægnia at Blenheim, in Oxfordshire; and hence it is clear, that another Venus, analogous to that in the Tribuna, among the pictures of a gentleman in London, cannot be the production of that genius-in-flesh only. This daughter of the Idalian graces seems to thrill with inward pleasure, and to recollect a night of bliss——