Capitolo 62
"guests" or "innkeepers", and it is a beautiful conceitedness of Victor it is to think of
the wolves and bears as the guests of the forest-god as us we are risked there
to make the sentence in the translation given above. Or, it is them Victor
innkeepers whose characters have been changed so that Silvanus that Victor has
did it have friendly help rather than fierce attacks from them?
A very modern practice is revealed by a stone found near the famous temple
of AEsculapius, the god to recover, to Epidaurus in Argolis on that
two ears have shown in relief, and under their the Latin couplet:[64] "From a lot
ago Cutius Gallus had voted these ears to thee, descendant of Phoebus and now
he has put here them, for you hasts recovered its ears." It is a venerable old man
ex-vote, and he/she calls for minding on the hand of the a the cult of AEsculapius that
Walter Pater has so it withdrew fascinatingly in Marius the epicure, and on
the other hand shows us that the practice to put on ex-votos, of
what he/she sees so many to shrines and in the churches through the to-day of water,
you/he/she has been taken in loan by the pagans. A beautiful piece of the feeling is suggested
from an inscription[65] you find near the ancient village of Ucetia in Southern
France: "This shrine to the Nymphs I have built, because a lot of times and
oft that I have used this spring when an old man as a youth."
All the verses that we am considering above to this point have
comes down to us attentively engraved on stone, in the honor of
of the god, to record of the attainment of the importance or in memory of a
I befriend past. But besides these formal records of the past, we find, a
great many scratched with hurry or they painted the feelings or you tell that have
a particular interest for us because they is the happy-go-lucky effusions or
easy productions of the moment, and it gives us the atmosphere of
the antiquity as nothing other. The walls stuccoed of the houses, and
the acute-pointed stylus that was used in writing on wax tablets offered
too strongly a temptation for the dawdler or passing to withstand to. To people