[2396] Frantic Bacchantes.
[2397] Sacrificing Bacchantes.
[2398] The name given in architecture to figures of females employed as columns in edifices. The Spartans, on taking the city of Carya, in Laconia, massacred the male inhabitants, and condemned the females to the most bitter servitude, as “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” Hence the memorials of their servitude thus perpetuated in architecture.
[2399] Or companions of Bacchus. See B. xxxv. c. [36].
[2401] “Symplegma.”
[2402] Also mentioned in B. xxxiv. c. [19].
[2403] Pausanias, B. I., speaks of three figures sculptured by Scopas; Erôs, Himeros, and Pothos. It is doubtful, however, whether they are identical with those here spoken of.
[2404] Or “Desire.” The name of “Phaëthon” is added in most of the editions, but Sillig rejects it as either a gloss, or a corruption of some other name.