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Footnote 1:
Von der Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und
Bildhauerkunst, p. 21, 22.
Footnote 2:
Brumoy Théât. des Grecs, T. ii. p. 89.
Footnote 3:
Iliad v. 343. Ἡ δὲ μέγα ἰάχουσα.
Footnote 4:
Iliad v. 859.
Footnote 5:
Th. Bartholinus. De Causis contemptæ a Danis adhuc Gentilibus Mortis,
cap. 1.
Footnote 6:
Iliad vii. 421.
Footnote 7:
Odyssey iv. 195.
Footnote 8:
Chateaubrun.
Footnote 9:
See Appendix, note 1.
Footnote 10:
See Appendix, note 2.
Footnote 11:
Aristophanes, Plut. v. 602 et Acharnens. v. 854.
Footnote 12:
Plinius, lib. xxx. sect. 37.
Footnote 13:
De Pictura vet. lib. ii. cap. iv. sect. 1.
Footnote 14:
Plinius, lib. xxxiv. sect. 9.
Footnote 15:
See Appendix, note 3.
Footnote 16:
See Appendix, note 4.
Footnote 17:
Plinius, lib. xxxv. sect. 35. Cum mœstos pinxisset omnes, præcipue
patruum, et tristitiæ omnem imaginem consumpsisset, patris ipsius
vultum velavit, quem digne non poterat ostendere.
Footnote 18:
Valerius Maximus, lib. viii. cap. 2. Summi mœroris acerbitatem arte
exprimi non posse confessus est.
Footnote 19:
Antiquit. expl. T. i. p. 50.
Footnote 20:
See Appendix, note 5.
Footnote 21:
Bellorii Admiranda, Tab. 11, 12.
Footnote 22:
Plinius, lib. xxxiv. sect. 19.
Footnote 23:
See Appendix, note 6.
Footnote 24:
Philippus, Anthol. lib. iv. cap. 9, ep. 10.
Ἀιεὶ γὰρ διψᾷς βρέφεων φονον. ἦ τις Ἰήσων
Δεύτερος, ἤ Γλαύκη τις πάλι σoὶ πρόφασις;
Ἐῤῥε καὶ ἐν κηρῷ παιδοκτόνε....
Footnote 25:
Vita Apoll. lib. ii. cap. 22.
Footnote 26:
See Appendix, note 7.
Footnote 27:
Mercure de France, April, 1755, p. 177.
Footnote 28:
“The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” by Adam Smith, part i. sect. 2, chap
1. (London, 1761.)
Footnote 29:
Trach. v. 1088, 1089:
ὅστις ὥστε παρθένος
Βέβρυχα κλαίων....
Footnote 30:
Topographiæ Urbis Romæ, lib. iv. cap. 14. Et quanquam hi (Agesander et
Polydorus et Athenodorus Rhodii) ex Virgilii descriptione statuam hanc
formavisse videntur, &c.
Footnote 31:
Suppl. aux Ant. Expliq. T. i. p. 242. Il semble qu’Agésandre,
Polydore, et Athénodore, qui en furent les ouvriers, aient travaillé
comme à l’envie, pour laisser un monument qui répondait à
l’incomparable description qu’a fait Virgile de Laocoon, &c.
Footnote 32:
See Appendix, note 8.
Footnote 33:
Paralip. lib. xii. v. 398–408.
Footnote 34:
Or rather serpent, for Lycophron mentions but one:
καὶ παιδοβρῶτος πορκέως νήσους διπλᾶς·
Footnote 35:
See Appendix, note 9.
Footnote 36:
See Appendix, note 10.
Footnote 37:
Their destined way they take,
And to Laocoon and his children make;
And first around the tender boys they wind,
Then with their sharpened fangs their limbs and bodies grind.
The wretched father, running to their aid
With pious haste, but vain, they next invade.—DRYDEN.
Footnote 38:
See Appendix, note 11.
Footnote 39:
With both his hands he labors at the knots.
Footnote 40:
Twice round his waist their winding volumes rolled,
And twice about his gasping throat they fold.
The priest thus doubly choked,—their crests divide,
And towering o’er his head in triumph ride.—DRYDEN.
Footnote 41:
See Appendix, note 12.
Footnote 42:
See Appendix, note 13.
Footnote 43:
His holy fillets the blue venom blots.—DRYDEN.
Footnote 44:
See Appendix, note 14.
Footnote 45:
See Appendix, note 15.
Footnote 46:
See Appendix, note 16.
Footnote 47:
The first edition was issued in 1747; the second, 1755. Selections by
N. Tindal have been printed more than once.
Footnote 48:
Val. Flaccus, lib. vi. v. 55, 56. Polymetis, dial. vi. p. 50.
Footnote 49:
See Appendix, note 17.
Footnote 50:
See Appendix, note 18.
Footnote 51:
See Appendix, note 19.
Footnote 52:
Tibullus, Eleg. 4, lib. iii. Polymetis, dial. viii.
Footnote 53:
Statius, lib. i. Sylv. 5, v. 8. Polymetis, dial. viii.
Footnote 54:
See Appendix, note 20.
Footnote 55:
Æneid, lib. viii. 725. Polymetis, dial. xiv.
Footnote 56:
In various passages of his Travels [Remarks on Italy] and his
Dialogues on Ancient Medals.
Footnote 57:
Polymetis, dial. ix.
Footnote 58:
Metamorph. lib. iv. 19, 20. When thou appearest unhorned, thy head is
as the head of a virgin.
Footnote 59:
Begeri Thes. Brandenb. vol. iii. p. 242.
Footnote 60:
Polymetis, dial. vi.
Footnote 61:
Polymetis, dial. xx.
Footnote 62:
Polymetis, dial. vii.
Footnote 63:
Argonaut. lib. ii. v. 102–106. “Gracious the goddess is not emulous to
appear, nor does she bind her hair with the burnished gold, letting
her starry tresses float about her. Wild she is and huge, her cheeks
suffused with spots; most like to the Stygian virgins with crackling
torch and black mantle.”
Footnote 64:
Thebaid. lib. v. 61–64. “Leaving ancient Paphos and the hundred
altars, not like her former self in countenance or the fashion of her
hair, she is said to have loosened the nuptial girdle and have sent
away her doves. Some report that in the dead of night, bearing other
fires and mightier arms, she had hasted with the Tartarean sisters to
bed-chambers, and filled the secret places of homes with twining
snakes, and all thresholds with cruel fear.”
Footnote 65:
See Appendix, note 21.
Footnote 66:
See Appendix, note 22.
Footnote 67:
See Appendix, note 23.
Footnote 68:
Polymetis, dial. vii.
Footnote 69:
See Appendix, note 24.
Footnote 70:
See Appendix, note 25.
Footnote 71:
Lipsius de Vesta et Vestalibus, cap. 13.
Footnote 72:
Pausanias, Corinth. cap. xxxv. p. 198 (edit. Kuhn).
Footnote 73:
Pausanias, Attic. cap. xviii. p. 41.
Footnote 74:
Polyb. Hist. lib. xvi. sect. 2, Op. T. ii. p. 443 (edit Ernest.).
Footnote 75:
See Appendix, note 26.
Footnote 76:
See Appendix, note 27.
Footnote 77:
Polymetis, dial. viii.
Footnote 78:
Statius, Theb. viii. 551.
Footnote 79:
Polymetis, dial. x.
Footnote 80:
See Appendix, note 28.
Footnote 81:
See Appendix, note 29.
Footnote 82:
Betrachtungen über die Malerei, p. 159.
Footnote 83:
Ad Pisones, v. 128–130. “Thou wilt do better to write out in acts the
story of Troy, than to tell of things not yet known nor sung.”
Footnote 84:
Lib. xxxv. sect. 36.
Footnote 85:
See Appendix, note 30.
Footnote 86:
Iliad xxi. 385.
Footnote 87:
She only stepped
Backward a space, and with her powerful hand
Lifted a stone that lay upon the plain,
Black, huge, and jagged, which the men of old
Had placed there for a landmark.—BRYANT.
Footnote 88:
See Appendix, note 31.
Footnote 89:
See Appendix, note 32.
Footnote 90:
Iliad iii. 381.
Footnote 91:
Iliad v. 23.
Footnote 92:
Iliad xx. 444.
Footnote 93:
Iliad xx. 446.
Footnote 94:
Iliad xx. 321.
Footnote 95:
See Appendix, note 33.
Footnote 96:
Iliad i. 44–53. Tableaux tirés de l’Iliade, p. 70.
Down he came,
Down from the summit of the Olympian mount,
Wrathful in heart; his shoulders bore the bow
And hollow quiver; there the arrows rang
Upon the shoulders of the angry god,
As on he moved. He came as comes the night,
And, seated from the ships aloof, sent forth
An arrow; terrible was heard the clang
Of that resplendent bow. At first he smote
The mules and the swift dogs, and then on man
He turned the deadly arrow. All around
Glared evermore the frequent funeral piles.—BRYANT.
Footnote 97:
Iliad iv. 1–4. Tableaux tirés de l’Iliade, p. 30.
Meantime the immortal gods with Jupiter
Upon his golden pavement sat and held
A council. Hebe, honored of them all,
Ministered nectar, and from cups of gold
They pledged each other, looking down on Troy.