Excerpt: ...136. With this may be connected another passage of Ovid- Metamorphoses, v. 391-408. 138. On these small objects the mother and daughter are hard to distinguish, the latter being recognisable only by a greater delicacy in the features and the more evident stamp of youth. 140. A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidae. 141. +Transliteration: hoi theoi para Damatri. Pater's translation: "the gods with Demeter." 143. +Transliteration: katadesmoi. Liddell and Scott definition: "a tie or band: ...
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Excerpt: ...136. With this may be connected another passage of Ovid- Metamorphoses, v. 391-408. 138. On these small objects the mother and daughter are hard to distinguish, the latter being recognisable only by a greater delicacy in the features and the more evident stamp of youth. 140. A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidae. 141. +Transliteration: hoi theoi para Damatri. Pater's translation: "the gods with Demeter." 143. +Transliteration: katadesmoi. Liddell and Scott definition: "a tie or band: a magic knot, love-knot." 145. +Transliteration: Deo. Liddell and Scott definition: the verb deo means "I shall find," while the proper noun refers to Demeter. 147. +Transliteration: petra agelastos. Translation: "sullen rock." 147. Pallere ligustra, / Exspirare rosas, decrescere lilia vidi. HIPPOLYTUS VEILED: A STUDY FROM EURIPIDES 152 CENTURIES of zealous archaeology notwithstanding, many phases of the so varied Greek genius are recorded for the modern student in a kind of shorthand only, or not at all. Even for Pausanias, visiting Greece before its direct part in affairs was quite played out, much had perished or grown dim-of its art, of the truth of its outward history, above all of its religion as a credible or practicable thing. And yet Pausanias visits Greece under conditions as favourable for observation as those under which later travellers, Addison or Eustace, proceed to Italy. For him the impress of life in those old Greek cities is not less vivid and entire than that of medieval Italy to ourselves; at Siena, for instance, with its ancient palaces still in occupation, its public edifices as serviceable as if the old republic had but just now vacated them, the tradition of their primitive worship still unbroken in its churches. Had the opportunities in which Pausanias was 153 fortunate been ours, how many haunts of the antique Greek life unnoticed by him we should have peeped into, minutely systematic in our painstaking! how...
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