[307] Diodor. Sic. L. XIII. p. 375. al. 507.
[314] Aldrovand. de Quadrup. bisulc. p. 141.
[315] Bellori Lucern. Sepulcr. P. I. fig. 17.
[316] Spon. Misc. Sect. II. Art. I. P. 25.
[317] Vide Buonarotti Osserv. sopra alcuni Medagli. Proem. p. XXVI. Roma. 1693. 4.
[319] Tristan Comment. Hist. des Emper. T. I. p. 632.
[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.
[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——
There is language in her eye, her cheek, her lip: Nay, her foot speaks——
[328] Veron. illustr. P. III. c. 7. p. 269.
[329] “Et toi, rival des Praxiteles & des Phidias; toi dont les anciens auroient employé le ciseau à leur faire des dieux capables d’excuser à nos yeux leur idolatrie; inimitable Pigal, ta main se résoudra a vendre des magots, ou il faudra qu’elle demeure oisive.” J. J. Rousseau Disc. sur le Retabl. d. A. S. &c.
This, my dear countryman! is the only passage of thine, where posterity will find the orator forgot the philosopher. N. of Tr.
Page 20. Line 13. _for_ comma _after_ says, _place_ semi-colon.
P. 83. Note, _for_ Bernoue _read_ Bernoull.
P. 94. L. 3. _after_ Nature _add a_ colon—_after_ flat _add_ it.
P. 166. Note f. _instead of_ ὈΔ. Τ. v. 230. _read_ Ψ. v. 163.
The errata have been corrected. The notes referenced above are, with the new numbering in this e-text, notes 26, 160 and 206.