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XI. Explanation of the Myth upon a fictile Vase found at Canino, now in the British Museum; in a Letter from Samuel Birch, Esq. addressed to Edward Hawkins, Esq. F.R.S., & S.A.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
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It is at your request and aided by your archæological experience that I have drawn up the short accompanying Memoir on a Vase recently acquired by the British Museum from the collection of the Prince of Canino, concerning the explanation of the figures represented upon which we hold many points in common.
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page 140 note a In the painting of Lesche at Delphi, Memnon and Penthesilea were represented together. Cf. Paus. x. Phocica.
page 140 note b The winged type of Aurora, whose Doric form Ἀὼς is analogous to ἄνμι spirare, suggests that she herself was a wind. In the story of Procris and Cephalus he invokes her as Aura, (Ovid. Met. vii. xxviii.), while her Latin name, Aurora, confirms this reading. Vide Hermann Ueber das Wesen, &c. 98. On the Vases, Ηεος.
page 141 note c Metam. xiii. sec. iii. 2 Icon. lib. i. c. 7. She there obtains furtively the body of her son,—ἳν᾽ ἐγγενήται οἱ κλέψαι τὸν υἷον.
page 141 note d Anc. Un. Mon. 1 Series, loc. cit.
page 142 note e They appear thus on the Tower of Andronicus Cyrrhestes, in Stuart's Athens, I. Ch. 3. Pl. 3. and on some of the fictile vases.
page 142 note f Paralip. iii. 1. 696.
page 142 note g Hesiod. Theog. 265–269.
page 142 note h De Witte, Descript. des Vases, p. 33, No. 70. Par. 1837, on which Aurora, Hermes, and Iris appear together.
page 143 note i Iliad, xvi. 454. Πέμπειν μιν Θάνατόν τε ϕέρειν καὶ νήδυμον Ὕπνον.
page 143 note j Ibid. l. 672–82.
page 143 note k Quintus Calaber, Paralip. iii. l. i. and seq.
page 143 note l Hesiod. Theog. 378, 79, 80. The antithesis here seems to be Argestes and Zephyr, Boreas and Notus. His corpse must have travelled S. E.
page 143 note m Orphei Argonaut. 219, 220. Apollonius Rhod. Argon. Apollod. Biblioth. I. c. 9. s. 20, 21. Some discrepancies occur about where they were winged. Cf. Hygin. fab. xiv. xix. Hi capita pedesque pennatos habuisse feruntur; or at their sides, Ovid Met. vi. 719, Cingere utrumque latus. On the vase in Millingen, Anc. Uned. Monuments, they are unarmed except with offensive weapons.
page 144 note n Il. xvi. 675. Applied to Sarpedon. In this respect the winged figures recall to mind the Κηρὲς at the sides of contending warriors. Cf. De Witte, Cat. Durand. no, 395. Also Millin Vases Peints. iii. Pl. xlviii., where the winged soul of Hector in full armor flies off to Hades. Iliad, xxii. 1. 362. For the psychopomic office of the Κηρὲς, Cf. Il. ii. l.302, 834. Schol. ad ead. Loc., and Heyne's Annot.