The antiquities of Herculaneum (1773) (14590795090)

Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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tention either to gy mnaftic exercifes, or 134 PLATE XXXI. or to mufic; becaufe they looked upon the former as of no ufe to the body, thelatter as injurious to their manners. But this does not appear to be wholly true,fince we read of Mofes in Philo, that he learned the whole art of mufic in Egypt.However this may be, mufic and dancing were exercifed in Rome by girls of Mem-phis, as Petronius calls them, and by Egyptian boys. The two other fatyrifts,Horace and Juvenal, fpeak of Syrian tibicens, who were called Ambubajae in Syriac.See VcJJii Etymolog. in Ambubaia, and Spanheim upon Callimachus, Hymn, in Del. v.253. And here we may obferve, that in general at Rome the minftrels were theloweft of the people, and that they employed the very worft and mod (hamelefs ofthefe at their entertainments. Under the emperours, luxury being increafed, danc-ing, playing, and finging became common; but were found fault with, not only:by the fathers of the church, but by the heathen philofophers. PLATE
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