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Latina: Penates apud Devisas in Belgio Nostro Effossi Anno 1714, Tabula iv Pagina 125.
ICUNCULA, quae ad servandam hujus Deae Formam, & admirabilem Symmetriam, ex aere fusili conflata est, Caput habet Vitta circumdatum, Cirros hoc, illo latere dependentes: Dexteram ad Uber elevatam; Mamillas sororiantes; Pectus bene castigatum, & Ventrem infra non nimis tumentem. Brachio caret sinistro, cujus Manus ad interfemineum obtegendum (erat enim valde pudica) forsan erat demissa. Ut in Venere Arundeliana, cujus apud doctiss. Pricaeum exstat Figura, satis speciosa; qua tamen nostra multo speciosior; quaeque forsan omnes hujusce Deae Imagines, quae nunc supersunt, Artuum mira compositione vincit, & formae eximium decus ostendit: Nates scil. quae Syracusanis; quae vel Horatio placerent. Plura hic notare nefas. Omni parte Venus est. Veneri suum Poemation nuncupavit Lucretius; Aenaeae sui matrem esse statuit Virgilius. Quae lepide, quae diserte, quae pulchre dicuntur, ea Veneres Cupidinesque sunt. At Deae hujus non infima laus est, quod (ut ex hac Icuncula patet) Penatium una sit. Romani nudas Veneris statuas amarunt; raro Velatas apud eos invenire licet. Etiamsi Plinius, [Graeca, inquit, res est nihil velare] nihilominus idem alibi tradit Praxitelem duas fecisse hujus Deae statuas, alteram velata specie. In praeclari hujus statuarii Venerem exstat Epigramma perelegans Eveni. Τὴν Κνιδίην, ἀδικῶς τὸν Φρύγα μεμφόμεθα. i.e. Ut Cnidiam videre Jovis soror, atque Minerva;
English: "Penates (Household Gods) Dug Up at Devises in Our Belgium in the Year 1714, Table 4, to Go before Page 125.
"which would please Horace. Further notes here would be wrong. Venus is everywhere. Lucretius dedicated his Little Poem to Venus and Virgil made her the mother of Aeneas. Those who are called charming, eloquent, or beautiful are Venuses and Cupids. Yet it is not the lowest praise of this Goddess that—as is clear from this Little Image—one should be a Penates. The Romans loved naked statues of Venus and it is seldom possible to find one Veiled among them. Even though Pliny said "Nothing Greek is veiled", nonetheless the same source reports elsewhere that Praxiteles made two statues of this Goddess and the second of them was veiled. Regarding this famous statuette Venus there exists an Epigram of Evenus reading "Tḕn Knidíēn, adikō̂s tòn Prýga memphómetha. "i.e. "When Minerva and Jove’s sister saw the Cnidia,
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Date | (engraving); 1719 (book) |
Source | Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae, Praecipue Romanae, Figuris Illustratae..., Vol. I: De Belgio Britannico, Cap. XII |
Author | William Musgrave |
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