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LIST OF THE

AND

ENGRAVINGS,

DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THEM.

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HE Author's Portrait, engraved by J. Singleton, from a drawing by Stoker; to face the title-page. 2. THE VOTIVE SHIELD, commemorating the CONTINENce of P. C. SCIPIO AFRICANUS, THE ELDER, in reftoring a beautiful female captive to ALLUCIUS, a prince of Celtiberia, to whom she was betrothed: found by some fishermen in the Rhone, near Avignon, in the year 1656, and not long since in the cabinet of the late King of France, but now probably battered to pieces by his Murderers.-Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R. A. To face

3. Two BUSTS, found in the tomb of the Scipio family, disco-
vered at Rome near Porta Capena, (now the gate of St. Se-
bastian,) in 1780; supposed to be the Busts of SCIPIO
AFRICANUS THE ELDER, and Q. ENNIUS. Engraved by
E. Harding, Jun. from a drawing by Carlo Labruzzi.
4. C. MARIUS, from an ancient basso relievo. Engraved by W.

P. 47.

p. 48.

5. L. C. SYLLA, from an ancient basso relievo. Engraved by W. Evans.

p. 63.

6. CICERO, from a painting by Rubens, done at Rome, from an ancient statue, in 1638. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun. p. 85. 7. POMPEY, from Rossi's Ancient Statues. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun.

P. 97

8. JULIUS CÆSAR, from a painting by Rubens, done at Rome, from an ancient statue, in 1638. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun.

P. 131.

9. MARCUS BRUTUS, from a coin in Dr. Hunter's Museum. Engraved by R. Clamp.

P. 144.

10. M. Æ. LEPIDUS, from a coin in Dr. Hunter's Museum. Engraved by R. Clamp.

P. 152.

II. M. ANTONY,

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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.

II. M. ANTONY, from an ancient gem. Engraved by R.

Clamp.

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p. 156.

12. CLEOPATRA; the face from an ancient gem, the head-dress, &c. from a coin in Dr. Hunter's Museum. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun.

P. 158.

13. OCTAVIA, from Museum Florentinum. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun.

P. 163.

14. AUGUSTUS, from a coin in Dr. Hunter's Museum. Engraved by R. Clamp.

p. 169.

15. M. AGRIPPA, from Museum Florentinum. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun.

P. 177.

16. VIRGIL, from Museum Capitolinum*. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun.

P. 194.

17. HORACE, from Veterum Poetarum, &c. Imagines, à I. P. Bellorio. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun.

P. 210.

18. OVID, from the same work. Engraved by R. Clamp.
19. AUGUSTUS, attended by his Courtiers, and giving a crown
to some person, whose figure is wanting; from an Ancient
Painting in fresco, of the same size, found in 1737, among
the ruins of Augustus's palace on the Palatine Mount, (now
Orti Farnesiani,) and formerly in the possession of Dr. Mead.
Engraved by R. Clamp, from a drawing by Camillo Pa-
derni.

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20. MÆCENAS, from a gem in the collection of Philip Baron de Stosch. Engraved by E. Harding, Jun.

P. 216.

P. 222.

P. 235.

The portraits of CATO THE YOUNGER, TIBULLUS, CATILINE, &c. are necessarily omitted, no genuine ancient representation of those persons having been hitherto discovered.

* The engraved portrait of VIRGIL, which is given in Heyne's excellent edition of that author, published at Leipsick, in 1788, and is said to be taken from the same archetype, is not faithful to the original.

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Pag.

ERRAT A.

5. n. 6. r.—cum nulla.

16. ver. 226. for stroke, r. shock.s

40. n. 6. l. 11. after intrigues, a comma, instead of a colon.

47. ver. 665. add this note:

Tibi quoque inter multa egregia non in ultimis laudum hoc fuerit, Annibalem, cui tot de Romanis ducibus victoriam dii dedissent, tibi cessisse. Liv. 1. xxx. c. 30.

Ibid. ver. 673. His foes revered him, &c. Add this note :

Nihilo minor fama apud hostes Scipionis erat, quam apud cives sociosque. LIV. 1. xxvi. c. 20.

48. ver. 682. So his soft manners, &c. Add this note:

Fuit enim Scipio veris non tantum virtutibus mirabilis, sed arte quo

que quâdam ab juventâ in ostentationem earum compositus. Liv. 1. xxvi. c. 19.

50. 1. 5. for 621. г. 609.

61. ver. 870. for the, r. Rome's.

72. n. 4. for Hannibal, r. Annibal.

96. n. 4. After Note, r. [A]

110. ver. 1554. for ages, r. sages.

115. n. 5. for Epist. 1. de Brevit. Vit. c. xiv.

r.

129. n. 7. for Epist. r. de Consol. ad Marc. c. xx.

157. n. 5. l. 3. for xa'x, r. xax.

1. 4. for αφηλικίςερον, r. αφηλικεςερον.

1. 5. for 33, r. 34.

201. ver. 2441, for green, s. fresh.

215. ver. 2551, for suck'd, r. cull'd.

256. 1. 7. from the bottom, for ingenious, r. ingenuous.

258. 1. 9. from the bottom, for THE universe, r. THEIR universe.

ROMAN PORTRAITS.

BRI

RIGHT source of life, intelligence, and song, Rolling unseen harmonious worlds along, By thy benignant will to man was given To rule his earth, and hope thy future heaven: Unlike the camp-born tyrant,' who on high Hung his vile law to snare the straining eye,* Thou by renew'd examples, broad and clear, As empires rise, decline, and disappear,

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'Versiculi, imperante mox eo [Caligulâ], divulgati, apud hybernas legiones procreatum indicant:

In castris natus, patriis nutritus in armis,
Jam designati principis omen erat.

SUET. in Cal. c. 8.

*-flagitante populo Romano proposuit quidem legem; sed et minutissimis literis, et angustissimo loco: uti ne cui describere liceret.